4th July 2006

47 & 48.  We were informed to meet up on Tuesday morning to check out each other's guitar. Here we see Jens' Ramirez , Simon's Contreras and Isabella's guitar (cannot remember the name of her guitar though!).

49. There was this lute-shaped guitar and there were 4 Kwakkels belonging to Duo Lisme, Matthew MacAlister and Adam Khan. The Kwakkels were really great. I enjoyed testing them. Every one of them had good tone with the right kind of action and was responsive. I strongly recommend it.

50. Here's a photo of Kiril Georgiev with Simon (Ernest and Sew Hong in the background).

51 & 52. Kiril (from the Lot Lorien group) asked Simon to say Hi! to the Bulgarians. Once back in Bulgaria, he would put the recording on Radio Varna.

53. Before lunch we had a press conference and the various TV stations were present. It was great to see the wide coverage the festival was getting. There was a lot of support from the local authorities as well. 

54. KLGE II at the press conference.

55. A photo taken after the press conference.

56 & 57. At a tea house - see Ernest enjoying himself!

58. After tea, we were walking down the street when May Ling's curiosity of what this shop had to offer got the owner inviting us in to sample this bread with sesame seed called Simrit. You find us digging in here. Delicious.

Later in the night was a concert shared by the Abant Gitar Quartet and Ege Gitar Dortlusu.

5th July 2006

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63. Well, Matthew was very disappointed that his concert at the church was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances and decided to give us a concert after dinner. This was one of the midnight concerts that took place every night after dinner.

64. Here's a section of the audience listening to Matthew.

65. KLGE II in front of the hall we would be playing in at night. We were there for a sound check.

66. Entrance of Ataturk Kultur Merkezi.

67. At the lobby of our hotel with Hakan and Oznur getting ready to go to Jason's Church.

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68. Arriving at Jason's Church.

69. Jason's Church.

70. The inside of Jason's Church.

71. Here we are hanging around with some jamming and singing.

72. Members of KLGE II enjoying the refreshing sea breeze.

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73. Bora Petkova of Lot Lorien testing out the acoustics of the church.

74. Here is the caretaker's shack where we relaxed and had tea.

75. Getting ready to go for our performance at the Ataturk Kultur Merkezi

76. Oner Yavuz

77. Bulent Bicakci

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78. Bulent with Galina Koicheva.

79. Murat Isbilen.

80. Murat with Ozhan Gozebatmaz

81. Ozhan

82. KLGE II - See Sew Hong, Chua May Ling, Simon Cheong & Ernest Thomas playing as a quartet.

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83. Ernest Thomas playing Falla's Homenaje & Turina's Fandanquillo

84. Simon Cheong with Ernest - duet

85. Simon playing a duet with Ong Peng Yang.

86. Ong Peng Yang with his solos.

87. Trio - Sew Hong, Simon & Ernest.

88. Final curtain - the top of Peter's & Frank's heads seem to be in the spotlight in this photo. Peter is helping us record our performance with our Hitachi camcorder. He enjoyed playing with the camcorder so much that he was taking some really 'good takes!' - I hope you are reading this ...Peter! ...Ha! Ha!  

89. KLGE II with Hakan & Oznur

90. After our performance we deserved a good meal! Picture of us relaxing here.

91. May Ling with Ceren

Midnight concerts

92. Isabelle Heroux

93. Ceren Baran

94. Duo Lisme - Peter & Frank

95. Galina with William Simcoe