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I play and teach guitar (classical, electric, acoustic). Teach up to & beyond ABRSM Grade 8, also TR&P, Rockschool. I read, write and take photographs. Venezuelan/Italian in London.
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'A Moment's Thought', one of my own little pieces, played live at the @kentishtowncityfarm on 17-10-25

Guitar is a Yulong Guo Chamber Concert

#guitar #classicalguitar #kentishtowncityfarm #kentishtown #livemusic
A Moment's Thought KTCF 2025
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Thank you again to those lovely people who came to see me play tonight 🙂 it was a lovely evening for me*, I hope it was for you

* apart from the toothache, which was a bit distracting but I hope that wasn't noticeable.
Just in case: playing tomorrow (17th October) - it would be very good if you joined us.

#guitar #classicalguitar #kentishtowncityfarm #kentishtown #neighbourhood
Watching (very belatedly) Star Trek Voyager and just ran into Cylon Simon in it. As in BSG, he's a complicated/complex baddie, although his character is not much more than an extra.
Hi. Playijng next Friday (17th October) at the @kentishtowncityfarm - it would be very good if you could be there with us.

Kentish Town City Farm
Cressfield Close, London, NW5 4BN
Admission £10

#guitar #classicalguitar #kentishtowncityfarm #kentishtown #neighbourhood
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FFS
It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
A reminder that I'm doing this on Thursday:

An evening of Classical Guitar - works by J S Bach, Sor, Mudarra, Pisador,Lauro and Flavio Matani.
Thursday, 25 Sept 2025
7:00 pm
Café Palestina,
53, Fortess Road NW5 1AD
Admission £10
Info and tickets: [email protected] -
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A refusal to mourn is not a celebration.

A refusal to eulogize is not an endorsement of murder.

A refusal to canonize a horrible human being is not a declaration of war.
I really really should stop reading the news at breakfast. There wasn't anything specific today, just the usual, the rise of the right, media inflating Reform and his buffoon mouthpiece, war and genocide much further down in the news. But that's quite enough.
'Canción Del Emperador' is a setting for vihuela by the Spanish composer Luys de Narváez (1526–1549)) of the song 'Mille Regretz' by Josquin des Prez. I have had the pleasure and honour of playing it with the singer Ruth Pritchard. In this occasion it is the vihuela setting, transcribed for guitar.
The world is a very, very strange place right now.
There is quite a long page on Wikipedia about the exploits of Gregor McGregor: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_...

He not only conned his way through a turbulent period of the history of my country Venezuela -many people died bc of his schemes. And he died in bed, of natural causes, pension paid by Vz
Gregor MacGregor - Wikipedia
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Listening again to @mikeduncan.bsky.social 's 'Revolutions' podcast, the part about the Spanish American independence wars. Again, so much that I wasn't taught in school in my native Venezuela. And getting now to the breathtaking story of the con-man Gregor McGregor -just wow #history #venezuela
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Vance was born in 1984. What did Orwell know?
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When Michael Jordan felt boxed in by his success in basketball he tried baseball. When Gary Brooks became synonymous with country he created Chris Gaines. And when JK Rowling created the most successful kids books of all time she reinvented herself as a petty, weirdo transphobia influencer.
Me playing one of my pieces, 'A Moment's Thought', at the Garden Summer Concert at Rustique the Literary Café in Tufnell Park, Camden, London

#guitar #classicalguitar #livemusic #rustique #tufnellpark #kentishtown #london

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A Moment's Thought - live at Rustique 2025
YouTube video by Flavio Matani Guitar
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