Registration for the annual Guitars by the Sea weekend has just opened. 

This is a great course where guitarists from the local area, and from around the UK, meet to play ensemble music. This year's tutors will be Mark Eden, from the well-known Eden-Stell guitar duo, Kia Robeson and Stephen Gordon. 

Click here for more information and to register on the course.

The Guitar Songs Group has recently been growing, and we've been exploring songwriting ideas, as well as playing well-known songs. Several of the players have shared their work-in-progress songs with us, and we've had a chance to talk about chords, song structure, lyrics and melody, and try out some of their new material. Maybe we can perform it some time...

The guitar group will soon have another performance opportunity at the Platform event shortly after Easter. 

This takes place on Saturday 13th April at the Piazza cafe, BHASVIC. The group will be playing a wide selection of music, and other performers are welcome to come and play solo and ensemble pieces too.

We are very sad to announce that one of the regular players in the guitar group, David Hopper, died earlier this week. This is very unexpected news and David, who contributed so much to the guitar group in recent years, will be missed. David also participated in Guitars by the Sea both in 2022 & 2023, and often expressed how much he enjoyed playing in the group alongside other guitarists.

Our new season of rehearsals begins today and the Classical Guitar Ensemble is starting an exciting project with New Music Brighton, the composers' organisation. NMB composers are writing original music for the guitar group, which we will perform in a special concert in June.

We had another successful Platform event in which the Classical Guitar Ensemble played a number of arrangements that we have been working on. The Guitar Songs Group also performed for the first time! We were also joined by solo performers, two guitar quartets and there was a comedy song too - thanks Mike!