15th Guitar Camp ( 6-8 December )
Documenting the camp in Photos
by
Lee Ji Xuan / Simon Cheong
Day 1
Well, after the concerts in Kuala Lumpur, we move on to our annual camp that has been organised for the 15th time this year. Here are some photos:-
Ah! We have reached Shahzan’s Inn …the participants alighting from the bus.
The bus is not able to drop the participants at the hotels door step as in one year, the bus hit the cement awning. So , here are the participants walking up to the hotel. Obviously, the committee (Very experienced committee members as both Ong Peng Yang and Lee Ji Xuan have been doing this all the time – we should acknowledge the great work done here by these two!) who is in charge of the bus, takes care of the participants and not forgetting our photographer, See Sew Hong, who has taken these shots!
The registration desk with Leong Yee Hoo and Ernest Thomas . You will see that Yang Li has also handed a bottle of drink to the participant, glad to say that this door gift is with courtesy from Fraser & Neave.
After everyone has registered and received their groupings, room keys, programme booklets, T-Shirts and Fraser & Neaves door gift, it was time for the President of Classical Guitar Society, Mr. Simon Cheong to make his address.
As usual, Simon welcomed all the participants and guests and then proceeded to speak on all the do’s and don’ts .
After introducing our guest artistes to the participants, Simon called on our guest artistes to give a word or two to the participants…
With last year’s festival & camp, a big bang came along with the superior level achieved with such names as Carlos Bonell and Johannes Moller…can we top this? This year Pavel Steidl was more than equal to this task and his name is highly sought today and we have the privilege of having him here with us!
With the outstanding performance of Pavel Steidl, what have we in store for this second part of the festival & camp? Well… we presented the guitar from a totally different perspective. Did the audience expect anything like this? Well, some feedback by audience who does not play the guitar was – wow! I didn’t know that the guitar could be played like that and we really enjoyed the concert! Even for those whose does play the guitar, it was an eye opener!