During this summer, EuroStrings Artists had the opportunity to perform concerts and masterclasses in Italy at the 26^th International Guitar Festival – City of Mottola. The peculiarity of this festival that was founded in 1992, is its itinerant format embracing the surrounding cities in Mottola (Massafra – Palagiano – Castellaneta) and also cities in different provincial administrations (Bari, Matera, Santeramo, Noci etc).

During the ten days of the festival, over 70 artists participated and more than 4000 people visited the festival. Beside giving masterclasses and performing solo concerts, our EuroStrings Artists Antero Pellikka (Finland), Giovanni Tomasi (Italy), Domenico Savio Mottola (Italy), Niklas Johansen (Denmark), Antoine Moriniere (France), Dominik Carević (Croatia), Boyan Doychev (Bulgaria), Vedran Vujica (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Nicola Montella (Italy) and Andrea Roberto (Italy) had the opportunity to perform concerts with other great musicians as Carlo Marchione, Duo Lavia-Ferraz (Argentina/Brasile), Trio el Tango (Argentina/Spain), etc.

EuroStrings Artists also gave a concert at the Extraordinary Reception Center for kids coming from Africa where young guitarists played and talked to the children, explaining the basics of guitar.