The beautiful sounds of guitars will be brought to life across South Australian pubs and live venues with the Adelaide Guitar Festival (11-14 August) launching Guitars in Bars.
The programme (15 July to 10 August) will bring the magnetic sounds of the world’s favourite instrument: rock, jazz, blues, folk and more statewide for a series of guitar-based live music events that venues can sign up, free of charge, to host.
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The Guitars in Bars concept will be extended to see artists play in other places such as galleries, wineries and public spaces.
Adelaide Guitar Festival artistic director Slava Grigoryan says the idea for Guitars in Bars came from a desire to include South Australia’s great guitar players, live-music lovers and venues in this world-class Festival. “There are so many great players, bands and venues in Adelaide and Guitars in Bars is our way of getting the Adelaide Guitar Festival out into all those places and involving more artists, more great local music in our Festival," Slava says.
Slava Grigoryan“It's stretching us well beyond what we've done with the Festival in the past. The diversity of live music in Adelaide and surrounds is totally invigorating and we want to celebrate it.”
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Guitars in Bars is also part of Music SA's new live music festival called Umbrella: Winter City Sounds. The inaugural Umbrella will be held from 15 July to 7 August, offering city dwellers an exciting smorgasbord of curated live music projects.
