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Proudly announcing the "International Italian Steel Guitar Convention"!

The event, featuring as main guest Mr. David Hartley from England, will take place on October 18th and 19th 2014 in Talmassons (UD), Italy.

Registered participants:

- David Hartley (England)
- Johan Jansen (Germany)
- Ellio Martina (Netherlands)
- Giovanni Santoro (Italy)
- Matteo Strazzolini (Italy)
- Gianni Gori (Italy)
- Ferdinando Ghidelli (Italy)
- Alex Valle (Italy)
- Sergio Panigada (Italy)
- Riccardo Scala (Italy)
- Eugenio Poppi (Italy)
- Paolo Portinari (Italy)
- Thomas Vinatzer (Italy)
- Giulio Vincenzi (Italy)
- Zoran Kosir (Slovenia)
- Andrej Poredos (Slovenia)
- Blaz Patty (Slovenia)
- Wolfgang Tumler (Italy)
and more to come...

All players are so welcome!

Further informations HERE

This is a great show! Completely different in songs and styles at the usual steelshows, I love it!!

What is the attendance like in terms of numbers and composition.

I hope it all goes well,
Sounds great.
All the best.
Salvatore (Sam) Jones Conomo

I'm really looking forward to this one.
See you all soon.

Updating the list...

Participants:

- David Hartley (England)
- Johan Jansen (Germany)
- Ellio Martina (Netherlands)
- Davor Rodik (Croazia)
- Giovanni Santoro (Italy)
- Matteo Strazzolini (Italy)
- Gianni Gori (Italy)
- Ferdinando Ghidelli (Italy)
- Alex Valle (Italy)
- Sergio Panigada (Italy)
- Riccardo Scala (Italy)
- Eugenio Poppi (Italy)
- Paolo Portinari (Italy)
- Thomas Vinatzer (Italy)
- Giulio Vincenzi (Italy)
- Zoran Kosir (Slovenia)
- Andrej Poredos (Slovenia)
- Blaz Patty (Slovenia)
- Wolfgang Tumler (Italy)
- Richard Geiger (Germany)

Special Guests:

- Davide Facchini & Anita Camarella (Italy)
- Paolo Ercoli (Italy)
- Massimo Gatti (Italy)
- David Hartley & Fran Allum (England)
- Jan Visser (Netherlands)

Sounds like great fun. Maybe I can come next year...

Dear Jim, you welcome next year! Don't forget to bring your picks!

This coming weekend... Yay

David, you got me excited and I'm not even going.
Sure wish I could be there to cheer you on.

Nice to see another international event. Too bad the dates are the same as the Irish festival, but best wishes for the success of both events.

Yes, in the future, they need to coordinate the dates better so that folks can attend (and even play at) both!

You're perfectly right!
When we started talking about organizing a steel convention in Italy we didn't imagine it could end up having a real international appeal. So, while choosing the date, we didn't pay that much attention to european events calendar... Shame on us!

In a few our participant and guest list has grown incredibly, more than we expected. I think we're now justified to call it "international". But we never mean to compete with the great Irish event!

So... you're right!
Next time we'll pay more attention to the dates, allowing people (and ourselves too!) to attend to both.

What an amazing weekend!!!
Three days of seminars, lessons, concerts, jam sessions, all shared with wonderful people...
Thanks so much to you all, guys! Looking forwards to next edition!

Great, . Thank you Gianni.

It has been great, not only for the steel and the music, but especially because of all the nice and warm hearted people.
As if we have been friends for many years at first sight!
Up to the next edition!!

Ellio

A great convention! The warm Italian way!

Any word on dates for 2015.

No, we are planning for spring 2016
JJ