TORONTO GUITAR WEEKEND Friday, April 15 – Sunday April 17, 2016 Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Guitar Society of Toronto Featuring Brazilian Guitarists Carlos Barbosa Lima and Celso Machado Competition Winner Steve Cowan Not to be missed! ~ Lectures ~ Master class ~ Open Mic with the Guitar Society of Toronto Orchestra Luthier and Vendor Fair ~
Celso Machado
Celso Machado: Virtuoso Brazilian Guitarist, Percussionist, Vocalist, Multi-instrumentalist, and Composer.
“Amazing skills that combine elements rarely found in the same band, let alone the same musician.”… TIM BROOKS, Review of New York Guitar Festivals Brazilian Guitar Marathon
Virtuoso Brazilian guitarist, percussionist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Celso Machado transports his audiences through the richness and diversity of Brazilian music and beyond.
Carlos Barbosa Lima
Carlos Barbosa Lima is a Brazilian guitarist who has toured internationally as a soloist and with numerous major orchestras.
Born on 17 December 1944 he began playing the guitar aged seven, and he soon became known in his neighbourhood as a prodigy. The young Carlos publicly debuted at a solo concert hall appearance (in São Paulo) in November, 1957, when he was twelve years old. His first LP recording, called “Dez Dedos Magicos Num Violão De Ouro” was released in June 1958, when he was 13 years old.
News
August 16, 2015 Welcome to the 2015-16 season of the Guitar Society of Toronto! I am honoured to greet you as the newly elected president of this venerable organization, and am well aware of the responsibility of heading up one of the oldest and most respected guitar societies in the world. The Society was founded by Eli Kassner in 1956: this season we will be celebrating of our 60th anniversary! We begin with […] August 5, 2015 This year we will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Guitar Society of Toronto. This makes us one of the oldest continuously operating guitar societies in the world. In the mid-50s, Eli Kassner and a group of students, friends, and aficionados, met regularly to sing, play guitar, and of course eat and drink. This led to the creation of the Society in December 1956 with Andres Segovia as the Honorary […]