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BiosJack and FrancesJack and Frances met in California in 1997. They began by playing together for weddings and special events throughout northern California, including such picturesque venues as Yosemite National Park and the Sea Ranch Chapel. Since moving to Mexico in 2004, they have given concerts and private performances in San Miguel de Allende, Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, Colima, Melaque, and Tapalpa. They currently make their home is San Miguel de Allende, in the central highlands about 3 hours north of Mexico City.The technical foundation of their music is the classical nylon-string guitar plucked with the fingernails, in the traditional manner of the Segovia school but with certain technical extensions, and, more importantly, a fluid and completely popular approach to repertory. Both Jack and Frances use all five fingers of the right hand for a variety of picking and strumming techniques. Their repertory and musical interests include their original compositions, classical music, rhumba-flamenco, tangos, jazz, pop and Mexican favorites. Jack began playing the piano at 4 years old, and switched to guitar at 13. His playing is informed by an extensive grounding in counterpoint, jazz harmony, and classical composition. He left school at 15 to focus on improving his guitar technique, and spent the next 5 years practicing many hours daily. By the end of his teens, his discontent with the limitations of the classical guitar repertory drove him to develop his arranging and composing skills and to explore ragtime, jazz, folk and world music while keeping the purity of classical guitar technique and tone. He has explored a variety of popular guitar styles, and has many years of experience playing for weddings and special events. Frances began studying guitar at 9 years old. She studied classical guitar while also singing and playing throughout her teens with her church youth group. Since her teens she has taught guitar to students of all ages. After getting degrees in English and Biology, she returned to music, her first love. Her knowledge and technique bases include harmony and composition, traditional classical guitar technique, and strumming / plucking / slapping techniques borrowed from bossa nova, rock 'n roll, huapango, rhumba-flamenco, and bolero styles. Both Jack and Frances have been inspired by guitarists ranging from Andrés Segovia to Doc Watson, but perhaps most significantly by the great classical duo Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya, and, more, recently by the brilliant Mexican duo Rodrigo and Gabriela. |
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