January Open Mic
2022-01-07 19:00 (America/New_York) | Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
Live Open Mic during Twilight Fridays at the Coral Gables Museum
January 6, 7 – 9 PM

We are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with the Coral Gables Museum to host our Open Mics! Yes, the Florida Guitar Foundation’s in-person Open Mics are back! The Coral Gables Museum will open its doors to the public for free from 6-8 pm each first Friday of the month, and our open mics will take place during these Twilight Fridays. ⁠Come on out and enjoy live music, the museum’s exhibitions, and a cash bar for your Friday night plans!
The Florida Guitar Foundation is inviting all guitarists in the community to our next Open Mic. Join us once again for our monthly classical guitar open mic sessions! These events are free, open to the public and all are welcome. Whether you are an enthusiast, a beginner, or just love music, plan to join us!
If you play classical guitar or another similar fingerstyle, we invite you to bring your instrument and get on stage! We have had a lot of great impromptu performances in the past. Our audiences create a supportive, low-pressure environment in which to hone your performance skills or try out that new piece you’ve been working on. If you know someone who would like to come, share this event! We hope to see you there!
Our Open Mics are presented in partnership with the Coral Gables Museum.

February Open Mic
2022-02-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
Live Open Mic during Twilight Fridays at the Coral Gables Museum
February 4, 7 – 9 PM

Join us tonight for another Open Mic Night! The Coral Gables Museum will open its doors to the public for free each first Friday of the month for Twilight Fridays. ⁠Come on out and enjoy live music, the museum’s exhibitions, and a cash bar for your Friday night plans!

The Florida Guitar Foundation is inviting all guitarists in the community to our next Open Mic. Join us once again for our monthly classical guitar open mic session! These events are free, open to the public and all are welcome. Whether you are an enthusiast, a beginner, or just love music, plan to join us!

If you play classical guitar or another similar fingerstyle, we invite you to bring your instrument and get on stage! We have had a lot of great impromptu performances in the past. Our audiences create a supportive, low-pressure environment in which to hone your performance skills or try out that new piece you’ve been working on. If you know someone who would like to come, share this event! We hope to see you there!

Our Open Mics are presented in partnership with the Coral Gables Museum.

March Open Mic
2022-03-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
Live Open Mic at the Coral Gables Museum
March 4, 7 – 9 PM

Join us tonight for another Open Mic Night! The Coral Gables Museum will open its doors to the public for free each first Friday of the month for Twilight Fridays. ⁠Come on out and enjoy live music, the museum’s exhibitions, and a cash bar for your Friday night plans!

The Florida Guitar Foundation is inviting all guitarists in the community to our next Open Mic. Join us once again for our monthly classical guitar open mic session! These events are free, open to the public and all are welcome. Whether you are an enthusiast, a beginner, or just love music, plan to join us!

If you play classical guitar or another similar fingerstyle, we invite you to bring your instrument and get on stage! We have had a lot of great impromptu performances in the past. Our audiences create a supportive, low-pressure environment in which to hone your performance skills or try out that new piece you’ve been working on. If you know someone who would like to come, share this event! We hope to see you there!

Our Open Mics are presented in partnership with the Coral Gables Museum.

April Open Mic
2022-04-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
Live Open Mic at the Coral Gables Museum
April 1, 7 – 9 PM

Join us tonight for another Open Mic Night! The Coral Gables Museum will open its doors to the public for free each first Friday of the month for Twilight Fridays. ⁠Come on out and enjoy live music, the museum’s exhibitions, and a cash bar for your Friday night plans!

The Florida Guitar Foundation is inviting all guitarists in the community to our next Open Mic. Join us once again for our monthly classical guitar open mic session! These events are free, open to the public and all are welcome. Whether you are an enthusiast, a beginner, or just love music, plan to join us!

If you play classical guitar or another similar fingerstyle, we invite you to bring your instrument and get on stage! We have had a lot of great impromptu performances in the past. Our audiences create a supportive, low-pressure environment in which to hone your performance skills or try out that new piece you’ve been working on. If you know someone who would like to come, share this event! We hope to see you there!

Our Open Mics are presented in partnership with the Coral Gables Museum.

Yamandu Costa
2022-04-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
April Open Mic Night

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Live, In-Person Concert
April 24, 2022 – 6:00 PM ET
Coral Gables Museum 285 Aragon Avenue Coral Gables, FL 33134

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“Musicians of this caliber that make you fall out of your seat come once in a generation.”

- La Presse Montreal

Yamandu Costa is widely considered one of the great guitarists in the world today. This virtuoso 7-string guitar player has left audiences breathless around the world with his impressive skill and overwhelming passion. Born to a musical family in Rio Grande do Sul in the south of Brazil, he played his first major concert at age 17 in São Paulo and quickly gained international fame for his incredible talent. Yamandu is credited with reviving Brazilian guitar music and his diverse repertoire includes styles like chorinho, bossa nova, milonga, tango, samba and chamamé, making him difficult to categorize into a single genre. A 2021 Latin GRAMMY winner for Best Instrumental Album, Costa has collaborated with Bobby McFerrin, Richard Galliano, Doug de Vries, Gilberto Gil, Toquinho, João Bosco, Ney Matogrosso, Marisa Monte, Renato Borghetti and more. He has also been a featured soloist with prestigious symphony orchestras around the world. For this new tour Yamandu Costa will perform a breathtaking set of Latin American pieces as well as brand new compositions.

Previous PerformancesSee All
2022

Andrew York
Yamandu Costa

2021

Carlotta Dalia
Rafael Padron
Lora Brothers
Máximo Diego Pujol
Andrea González Caballero

2019

Ana Vidović
Rene Izquierdo
Patterson/Sutton Duo
Aniello Desiderio
Meng Su

2018

Kupiński Guitar Duo
Jorge Luis Zamora
SoloDuo
David Russell

2017

Texas Guitar Quartet
Ana Vidović
Manuel Barrueco
Judicaël Perroy
Łukasz Kuropaczewski

2016

Martha Masters
Meng Su
Marcin Dylla
Irina Kulikova
Junhong Kuang

2015

Fabiano Borges
LAGQ
Rafael Padrón
Jason Vieaux

2014

Denis Azabagic
Rodrigo Concertos
Grisha Goryachev
Alvaro Pierri

2013

Xuefei Yang
Beijing Guitar Duo
Marcin Dylla
Gohar Vardanyan
Bandini & Chiacchiaretta

2012

Petrit Ceku
Ana Vidović
Edel Muñoz

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May Open Mic
2022-05-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
Live Open Mic at the Coral Gables Museum
May 6, 7 – 9 PM

Join us tonight for another Open Mic Night! The Coral Gables Museum will open its doors to the public for free each first Friday of the month for Twilight Fridays. ⁠Come on out and enjoy live music, the museum’s exhibitions, and a cash bar for your Friday night plans!

The Florida Guitar Foundation is inviting all guitarists in the community to our next Open Mic. Join us once again for our monthly classical guitar open mic session! These events are free, open to the public and all are welcome. Whether you are an enthusiast, a beginner, or just love music, plan to join us!

If you play classical guitar or another similar fingerstyle, we invite you to bring your instrument and get on stage! We have had a lot of great impromptu performances in the past. Our audiences create a supportive, low-pressure environment in which to hone your performance skills or try out that new piece you’ve been working on. If you know someone who would like to come, share this event! We hope to see you there!

Our Open Mics are presented in partnership with the Coral Gables Museum.

Andrew York
2022-05-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
April Open Mic Night

📷 Photo by Christine Lang

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Live, In-Person Concert
May 15, 2022 – 6:00 PM ET
Coral Gables Museum285 Aragon AvenueCoral Gables, FL 33134

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“In any generation, there are many musicians, but very few artists that communicate on a profound cultural level. Andrew York is one of these rare artistic voices. Think Picasso painting with sound as a canvas, or a Miles Davis behind the guitar. Andrew achieves a synthesis of ancient and modern forms that offers a deep cultural expression that will only be truly understood by future generations. To call Andrew’s music classical is to put it into far too small a box; this is the living future of classical music.”
– Robert Bluestone

“While some people play music others are musicians. These people transcend whatever instrument they play and connect with a level far beyond the mere physical. Andrew York is one of these special people who do just that; he is a musician’s musician. Not only through his performances but through his composing he is enriching the guitar in ways only future generations will truly understand. It is an honor and pleasure to know this gifted and kind artist.”
– Bill Piburn, Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine

Andrew York is one of today’s best loved composers for classical guitar and a performer of international stature. His compositions blend the styles of ancient eras with modern musical directions, creating music that is at once vital, multi-leveled and accessible. Andrew received a GRAMMY as a member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet during his sixteen years with the cutting-edge ensemble. York’s compositions have been featured on GRAMMY-winning recordings by Jason Vieaux (CD “Play”, featuring Andrew’s iconic composition “Sunburst”, 2015) and Sharon Isbin (CD “Journey to the New World” featuring “Andecy”, 2010). In 2006 Andrew recorded and performed with the Atlanta Symphony for the opera “Ainadamar” by Osvaldo Golijov. The recording of “Ainadamar” (Deutsche Gramophone) won two GRAMMY awards.
Andrew’s video “Home” has received millions of views, with Andrew playing his recent hit on a vintage Torres guitar built in 1888.
Andrew has released CDs on Sony-U.S., Sony-Japan, King Records (Japan), Telarc, GSP and Delos labels, as well as inclusion on Rhino Records “Legends of Guitar” and numerous other compilations. Andrew’s 2010 CD release “Centerpeace” offers individual collaborations with guitarist Andy Summers, and pianists Mitsuko Kado and Allaudin Mathieu.
Andrew’s most recent recordings “Home” and “The Equations of Beauty,” were released on both vinyl LP and two separate EP/CDs. The recordings include the single “Home” and the 26-minute suite “The Equations of Beauty,” based on mathematics.
Andrew’s solo recording “Yamour” was released on vinyl as a double LP album, and garnered the number one spot in Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s “Essential Recordings of 2012” by editor Teja Gerken. Commenting on the more than eighty minutes of new pieces for solo guitar he composed for this major work, Andrew says “When I write I feel a connection to my spirit and the joy and sorrow of life. My entire life comes into focus and there is no separation between me as a boy, a young man and now in my later years.”
In Andrew’s concerts the theater becomes a living room, and the musical conversation begins with the first note. His authenticity has inspired a worldwide following, with his touring schedule spanning more than thirty countries. Recent concerts include Rome, Lima, Beijing, Ankara, Munich, Manhattan, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania and Andrew’s twelfth tour of Japan.
In film, Andrew performs in the live documentary “Primal Twang,” written and hosted by eminent musician and storyteller Dan Crary, with other artists Eric Johnson, Albert Lee, Doc Watson, and Mason Williams.
York’s compositions have also been recorded by guitar luminaries John Williams and Christopher Parkening, Sharon Isbin, Jason Vieaux, and Japanese pianist Mitsuko Kado. In addition, generations of younger guitarists make Andrew’s music a staple of their repertoire in their performances and studies. As a published composer, York’s works appear in print worldwide through Majian Music, Alfred Publications, Hal Leonard, Mel Bay Publications, Guitar Solo Publications, Doberman-Yppan in Canada, Ricordi in London, and Gendai in Japan.
A love of music was instilled at an early age; Andrew’s father was a guitarist and his mother a professional singer. Family reunions abounded with folk music ranging from frontier American to English and Celtic traditional songs.
Andrew crosses over stylistic boundaries with an unusual authority – besides his classical contribution, he also has an extensive background as a jazz guitarist, studying with jazz legends Joe Diorio and Lenny Breau. As a classical musician, Andrew was awarded a grant from the Del Amo Foundation for Study in Spain. Andrew received his Master of Music degree from University of Southern California, and is the only USC graduate in the school’s history to twice receive the Outstanding Alumni of the Year Award in 1997 as a member of LAGQ and in 2003 as the sole recipient. Andrew is a member of the Triple Nine Society.

Previous PerformancesSee All
2022

Andrew York
Yamandu Costa

2021

Carlotta Dalia
Rafael Padron
Lora Brothers
Máximo Diego Pujol
Andrea González Caballero

2019

Ana Vidović
Rene Izquierdo
Patterson/Sutton Duo
Aniello Desiderio
Meng Su

2018

Kupiński Guitar Duo
Jorge Luis Zamora
SoloDuo
David Russell

2017

Texas Guitar Quartet
Ana Vidović
Manuel Barrueco
Judicaël Perroy
Łukasz Kuropaczewski

2016

Martha Masters
Meng Su
Marcin Dylla
Irina Kulikova
Junhong Kuang

2015

Fabiano Borges
LAGQ
Rafael Padrón
Jason Vieaux

2014

Denis Azabagic
Rodrigo Concertos
Grisha Goryachev
Alvaro Pierri

2013

Xuefei Yang
Beijing Guitar Duo
Marcin Dylla
Gohar Vardanyan
Bandini & Chiacchiaretta

2012

Petrit Ceku
Ana Vidović
Edel Muñoz

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August Open Mic
2022-08-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
Live Open Mic at the Coral Gables Museum
August 5, 7 – 9 PM

Join us tonight for another Open Mic Night! The Coral Gables Museum will open its doors to the public for free each first Friday of the month for Gallery Night. ⁠Come on out and enjoy live music, the museum’s exhibitions, and a cash bar for your Friday night plans!

The Florida Guitar Foundation is inviting all guitarists in the community to our next Open Mic. Join us once again for our monthly classical guitar open mic session! These events are free, open to the public and all are welcome. Whether you are an enthusiast, a beginner, or just love music, plan to join us!

If you play classical guitar or another similar fingerstyle, we invite you to bring your instrument and get on stage! We have had a lot of great impromptu performances in the past. Our audiences create a supportive, low-pressure environment in which to hone your performance skills or try out that new piece you’ve been working on. If you know someone who would like to come, share this event! We hope to see you there!

Our Open Mics are presented in partnership with the Coral Gables Museum.

September Open Mic
2022-09-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
Live Open Mic at the Coral Gables Museum
September 2, 7 – 9 PM

Join us tonight for another Open Mic Night! The Coral Gables Museum will open its doors to the public for free each first Friday of the month for Gallery Night. ⁠Come on out and enjoy live music, the museum’s exhibitions, and a cash bar for your Friday night plans!

The Florida Guitar Foundation is inviting all guitarists in the community to our next Open Mic. Join us once again for our monthly classical guitar open mic session! These events are free, open to the public and all are welcome. Whether you are an enthusiast, a beginner, or just love music, plan to join us!

If you play classical guitar or another similar fingerstyle, we invite you to bring your instrument and get on stage! We have had a lot of great impromptu performances in the past. Our audiences create a supportive, low-pressure environment in which to hone your performance skills or try out that new piece you’ve been working on. If you know someone who would like to come, share this event! We hope to see you there!

Our Open Mics are presented in partnership with the Coral Gables Museum.

Guitar Competition Final - Undergraduate Division
2022-09-17 14:30 - 16:30 | Clarke Recital Hall, University of Miami, 5501 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Guitar Competition Final – Undergraduate Division
Finalists:
Kacper Dworniczak (Poland)
Kyle Khembunjong (USA)
Patricia Hernandez (USA)
David Manzanares (USA)
Free and Open to the Public

Guitar Competition Final - Open Division
2022-09-18 14:30 - 16:30 | Clarke Recital Hall, University of Miami, 5501 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Guitar Competition Final – Open Division
Finalists:
Jagoda Swidzinska (Poland)
Francisco Luis (Portugal)
Jeremy Waldrip (USA)
Chinnawat Themkumkwun (Thailand)
Free and Open to the Public

October Open Mic
2022-10-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
Live Open Mic at the Coral Gables Museum
October 7, 7 – 9 PM

Join us tonight for another Open Mic Night! The Coral Gables Museum will open its doors to the public for free each first Friday of the month for Gallery Night. ⁠Come on out and enjoy live music, the museum’s exhibitions, and a cash bar for your Friday night plans!

The Florida Guitar Foundation is inviting all guitarists in the community to our next Open Mic. Join us once again for our monthly classical guitar open mic session! These events are free, open to the public and all are welcome. Whether you are an enthusiast, a beginner, or just love music, plan to join us!

If you play classical guitar or another similar fingerstyle, we invite you to bring your instrument and get on stage! We have had a lot of great impromptu performances in the past. Our audiences create a supportive, low-pressure environment in which to hone your performance skills or try out that new piece you’ve been working on. If you know someone who would like to come, share this event! We hope to see you there!

Our Open Mics are presented in partnership with the Coral Gables Museum.

April Open Mic Night
2023-04-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
Open Mic Night at the Coral Gables Museum
April 7, 7 – 9 PM

Join us tonight for another Open Mic Night! The Coral Gables Museum will open its doors to the public for free each first Friday of the month for Gallery Night. ⁠Come on out and enjoy live music, the museum’s exhibitions, and a cash bar for your Friday night plans!

The Florida Guitar Foundation is inviting all guitarists in the community to our next Open Mic. Join us once again for our monthly classical guitar open mic session! These events are free, open to the public and all are welcome. Whether you are an enthusiast, a beginner, or just love music, plan to join us!

If you play classical guitar or another similar fingerstyle, we invite you to bring your instrument and get on stage! We have had a lot of great impromptu performances in the past. Our audiences create a supportive, low-pressure environment in which to hone your performance skills or try out that new piece you’ve been working on. If you know someone who would like to come, share this event! We hope to see you there!

Our Open Mics are presented in partnership with the Coral Gables Museum.
