In Paraguay, I had one of the best artistic and personal experiences performing in Paraguay for the International Guitar Festival in Asuncion. See my facebook for photos.
Crossing into the Country World was a blast! Marija played “Toes in the Water” (Zac Brown’s Grammy award winning number). She presented an intro, and created a flamenco/classical adaptation to the piece. It came off great and people were asking Marija if she was going to make a country album;-)
American Song Writer Magazine covered the event, and mentioned “Brown proved the consummate master of ceremonies during the four-plus- hour affair, bringing out a cast of talent, including guitarist Marija Temo, Breaking Southern Ground artists Sonia Leigh, Nic Cowan and Levi Lowrey, Sarah Dugas of the Duhks and Atlanta singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins.“
Check out Bob Taylor’s Official Taylor Guitar Blog.
Marija Temo recently returned from the Taylor Guitar Factory invited by Bob Taylor to be a part of his latest venture in learning to build a classical guitar. It was thrilling to watch he and his team build a classical guitar as well as apply Bob Taylor’s NT guitar neck to them. Pepe Romero Jr. was the luthier to help guide in the building process. Marija Temo and Pepe Romero Sr. played and checked out the different types of classical guitars built that week. Writer’s from Acousic Guitar Magazine also showed up and Marija was videod by them performing a few numbers. It was a wonderful week. Bob Taylor wrote about the experience and made some beautiful comments about Marija in his Taylor Guitar Blog. Also, check out some photos that will be posted soon on Marija’s Facebook Fan Page.
A report from GE capital regarding the GE/Taylor guitar commercial had the following question to and statement from Deb Barker (GE Executive):
“Is that really you playing the guitar?”
“I would love it to be me, but although I’m learning there’s no way I could play that amazing riff! In the advert we wanted a light-hearted moment at the end to illustrate the close working relationships and connection GE Capital has with its customers – the surprise expert guitar playing at the end of the advert hopefully illustrated that in a nice, amusing way. To create the scene we used some movie magic to transpose my head onto the body of a wonderfully talented player named Marija Temo. Marija is a classically trained Flamenco player – one of a few in the USA. No doubt Marija will have long lasting positive effects from this commercial, as the interest in her and her craft has increased significantly. She is an amazing artist!”
