Audience of the concert. |
Friday
18th April.
Stick night in the Groove pub, Tarragona,
Spain.
Bob is a great music with an excellent technique.
The seminary started off with a great Stick
night in a music hall in Tarragona, where
all musicians from different places started
arriving ready to play in the concert: André
Pelat from France, Pino Mechi from Italy,
Patricio Benadon from Argentina, Francesc
Moreno from Catalonia, as well as public,
seminary participants and me. |
Culbertson y his Acoustick in action. |
Here Bob with his new acoustick! in a historical
night for Spain, we all thought that he’s
acoustick sounded incredibly well.
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Cides in concert. |
We spent all night on stage, in the middle
of a festival climate. The audience was
surprised with each music. I’m convinced
that although we all playing the same instrument
the variety of styles was endless!
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Pino Mechi From Italy. |
Pino
has only started playing eight months ago.
He showed us all that it’s easy to
learn fast! |
Bob, Grand Stick electric session... |
Bob
has a special way of placing his stick,
if you watch you will see that behind his
stick he has placed a wooden cross that
he leans on his legs. He doesn’t use
the strap and he sits down to play. |
André Pelat from France. |
André
is a “stickista” with 15 years
experience. He plays with great ability,
and his list is both classic and popular.
He is a great music.
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Francesc Moreno from Catalunya playing his
Tap-Bass Concert. |
Moreno
is a virtuous of the bass playing with the
tapping technique. He also plays the stick,
although he usually offers concerts with
his tap bass. |
Pelat dazzling to the ladies ! |
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Pino Mechi. |
It
was his first concert with the stick!
Molto bene! |
Mechi capturing the attention of the audience.
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Mechi
attracts the attention of the audience.
The public followed with attention every
performance. |
Bob and the audience. |
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Inspiration y music! |
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Speaking of chords... |
Saturday
19th.
First day of activities. |
How is the chords...? |
Bob
started the activities explaining about
he’s techniques, chords and other
secrets to the other musicians. |
-In this way... |
With
a blackboard, an amplifier, and a stick,
you can do amazing things! |
Bob, German and the big dummy. |
The
place we chose is also used as a theatre,
agriculture, meetings… |
Bob explaining secret of chords. |
Culbertson
is a great transmitter of his information,
and makes very clear to understand what
he wants to say... |
Cides explaining secret of sounds. |
We
tolked about sound: connections, amplifiers,
pedals, multieffects, loops, mixer... |
Calibrating the Diego's Purple Heart...
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Bob
carried out a session of adjustments and
repairing the instruments. |
-Sound better if you down this string...
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Pelat trying out a Tiorba ( an instrument
of the Renaissance) during a rest time. |
Relax
time! |
Rest and relax... |
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-How is this...? |
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-Ups...! |
The
dog Leo and the horse Matilda attending
to the seminar...
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Our cooks Estitxu and Tamara, preparing
homemade bread for the lunch !! |
The
food was excellent: vegetarian almost all
the time, vegetables of the orchard, pizzas
done in the mud furnace, homemade bread,
Kefir of water, fruits... |
-The table is on....! |
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Lets eat!! |
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The afternoon goes on.
We speak in French, Spanish and Italian
all at the same time! |
Meanwhile
Bob gives some individual classes –
30 minutes per music. The rest do some jamming,
interchang of ideas... |
Improvisation section. |
This
part of the activities was to play with
the others players, looking for notes and
ideas, without concerning the level of each
one of the musicians .
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André Pelat and his Stick-Bow! |
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-Wil I remember every thing...? |
Stickista
from Catalunya, Xavi Oró. |
A green stick day... |
Raoul
Zamorano, bass player and stickista. |
Pino Mechi G Major. |
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-7M? 6m?...?? |
To
see in action and play with other stickistas
is a good way of learning. |
Martin Weigel |
New
player . DJ in the past, now in the search
of new emotions... |
Cides, Wood & Fire. |
Preparing
the fire for the dinner at night. |
The journalist David Sancho and Cides making
a interview. |
The
activities made in the stick camp are always
published in press. Sunday night the seminary
closed down for a concert in the countryside…
The newspaper published both the interview
and our telephone number!
People from the city called to confirm their
assistance… |
The interview. |
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Sunday dinner night... |
No
words. |
...It was Bob’s birthday! Cides in
mandoline, and Pere Vidal with the accordion
singing happily happy birthday to you. |
Happy
birthday Bob! |
We go to ours: nocturnal concert, Culbertson
and Cides. |
Sunday
night : concert... |
Hard work. |
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With two pianos... |
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-Is a pleasure play with you, Bob... |
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Mechi in action, with the drummer Gerard
Mallorqui and Cides. |
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-How does this work...? |
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Pelat: violin bow.
Cides: electronic E-Bow |
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Diego Blanco in action. |
Diego
Blnco is a player from Argentina established
in Mallorca, with a published album, he´s
also an excellent guitar player with very
peculiar sounds... |
Germán Rodriguez from Catalunya. |
Germán
Rodriguez is a new player from Catalunya,
España.
He learn quickly! and is already playing
with The Stick Ensemble. |
Air view...
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...rock'n'roll ! |
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Culbertson in concert. |
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Cides-Culbertson.
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Time
to go home. |
“vacations
with music” help us to improve, this experience
leaves us musicians with a great personal sensation
as well as artistic friendship, after sharing breakfast,
dinners, concerts y breaks together. I felt that
nice sensation and it makes me happy to think that
soon this pioneering idea of having these types
of events becomes popular in other seminaries. that
idea will be popular among other seminaries soon.
