Dear friends,

in such a difficult time for everyone, we wish you all Happy Holidays from the bottom of our hearts. These holidays will be different than usual; less carefree, but an opportunity for meditation, reflections and planning for the future nonetheless. However, let us send you a message of energy and positivity: soon we will meet again, and we will experience again those beautiful emotions aroused by music and our beloved string instruments!

We send a strong message of closeness and solidarity to producers of musical instruments, luthiers and companies in the sector. Hold on! It is a very difficult, unexpected situation and it is creating an unprecedented economic crisis. But eventually it will end; we must resist and be ready to restart.
For our part, we have not stopped working for a minute to create new opportunities for the market and the sector overall. With the Special Edition of Cremona Musica last September and with the preparation of the next edition of the Acoustic Guitar Village in Cremona Musica, September 2021, 24th-26th, we have always been there and will always be, with great commitment and energy.

To musicians and enthusiasts of guitars, mandolins, ukuleles, charangos, bouzouki and as many strings as possible, a big hug and an invitation to spend happy holidays with the instruments in your hands: take advantage to practice, we will need you at the restart! 

As already announced, the whole program scheduled for 2020 is confirmed for 2021: luthier masterclasses with the master luthiers John Monteleone, Enrico Bottelli and Lorenzo Lippi, didactic masterclasses with guitarists Ed Gerhard and Francesco Buzzurro, and the event “Cremona Mandolini in Mostra “, with historical exhibition, masterclass, performances by mandolin ensemble directed by Maestro Carlo Aonzo.
Other unmissable events will be:  8th Italian Bluegrass Meeting, “Corde & Voci d’Autore” for songwriters, “New Sounds of Acoustic Music” competition, 4th conference “The guitar between ‘800 and ‘900”.
Thanks to the collaboration with the organization “Vintage Authority” there will also be a special vintage exhibition, that will once again let plectrum and plucked instruments be the absolute protagonists.
Given this year’s success, other events will also take place in the historic centre of Cremona.

At the beginning of the New Year it will be possible to start booking the exhibition spaces within the Acoustic Guitar Village area, pavilion 1 of the Cremona Fair.

Do not miss this opportunity to meet and relaunch our sector in Cremona, the capital of high craftsmanship instruments in the world.

Happy Holidays and we are waiting for you in September 2021, 24-25-26th!

Staff at Acoustic Guitar Village
Cremona Musica International Exhibitions and Festival
Ass. Cult. “Armadillo” APS, Sarzana Italy

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