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We are back in Buenos Aires! ... And in Rosario too:

Sunday, September 23, 8.30 PM
EL NACIONAL
Estados Unidos 308 piso 1, Buenos Aires

Friday, September 28, 9 PM
TEATRO ASOCIACION DE EMPLEADOS DE COMERCIO
Corrientes 450, Rosario

Saturday, October 6, 9 PM
TALLER RIO DE LA PLATA, Vicente López
Vernissage

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SPAIN CONCERTS:

Bigtime had a short tour in Spain, May-June 2005, which included:

• A radio interview with live performance on Radio Television Española, May 26th, 16.00. This was broadcasted to the whole country and was shared with the Zum trio.

• Bigtime at Sala Clamores, Madrid, June 1
with the Zum trio

(pictures courtesy by Daniel Arias)

• Bigtime at Ritmo & Compás, Madrid, June 2
with opening loops by Alain Piñero on Warrguitar.

• Bigtime at Pool & Beer, Guadarrama, June 4

(picture courtesy by Daniel Arias)

• Bigtime at El Matadero, Madrid, June 5
with supporting group: the Madrid Guitar Circle.

• Bigtime at Pierrot Lunaire, Maçanet de la Selva, Girona, June 10

• Bigtime at Sala Mariscal, L'Estartit, Girona, June 11
with the Zum trio.

2004

The trio performed at the the 38th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland) July 6, 7 and 8, 2004. For further information click Montreux.

And before Montreux:

Bigtime at Ritmo & Compás
Conde de Vilches, 22 Madrid, Spain
Tuesday June 29, 2004 at 9.30 PM

July 10th, 2003
Bigtime live at "Ritmo y Compas", Madrid, Spain

This was a very good show... Maybe 60 people in the audience. We had a good sound check, in a place we already knew, with a good willing soundman. We played most of our new CD with some pieces from Troika and the first one.

The picture is taken from the video of Fuga & Misterio, not in this show, but at the same place on February 4th.

Sunday August 18th, 2002
Bigtime live in "Humano", Palermo, Buenos Aires
Start time: 10:45 pm
Weather: incredible pouring rain!!
Attendance: approx. 100 people

Emotive, powerful and with a farewell taste. Despite we put clear in the mailing send that it wasn't the "goodbye show", everybody who attended to this show knew that they wouldn't see another BigTime show for a long time. So the local was crowded (over 70 reservations one day before the show) and people challenged hard autumm weather and placed where possible: tables, chairs, stand, upstairs in the balcony, on stairs and in the floor.
Audience gave heat and the trio gave them a over 85 minutes performance, where some lack of adjustment after four months with no rehearsal were minimized for the energy created in the air...
BigTime played part of the repertoire of the two records, all the "Ballroom"stuff, two or three Guitar Craft standards and close encores with circulated Bach's Double Presto.
It was a sweet and warm "see you soon" with our Buenos Aires people...

BIGTIME in Home Concert!
Dinner-show with María Laura Martínez (piano)
and Sandra Parnigiani (soprano)

Saturday, April 6 2002, 9.30 PM
Pasaje Prometeo 3025, depto. 1
Buenos Aires, Argentina

It went like an open rehearsal, with ten people in the audience. By chance, Ignacio R., former singer with Rael, stage companion between 1987 y 1993, appeared surprisingly. Also Uki G. was there (I never thought he'd be interested in our repertoire). Italo D., radio journalist helped to transform the end of the show into a short Q&A session. I'd like to thank Jorge Salinas who brought us to that place and helped with the practicalities of the evening.

The set list:

El Ingrediente Secreto del Pastel de Mary
Viajeros
Palabrasanta
Cartas desde Grecia
Quejas de Bandoneon
Fuga en Cm
Aybe Sea
Yamanashi Blues
Flying Home
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Boda en Londres

And 30 minutes later:

Ballroom
Here, there & everywhere
Fuga & Misterio
MAVEMS
Children's Song #3
Three Balls in the air
Desarma & Sangra
A Conn. Yankee ITCOKA
El Payaso (six performers on stage)
Miller's Medley
New Country

With three encores:
Taquito Militar
Fiesta (Santana Mix version)
Preludio en C

This set really worked. Was it because we played quite well?

There are moments in which I feel we play with no safety net down there: Fuga en Cm, Beatles, Fuga & Misterio, Taquito, Desarma & Sangra... It's like being exposed to the Power of Melody, checking our capacity of being present in every second, taking for granted that a part of the audience is mostly present.

I'm not talking about popular melodies only. When we play Viajeros or MAVEMS, I feel that "any fool can play something difficult", and that "playing fast is easier than playing slow"...

Guille was there with MAVEMS, which we didn't played for years. It's a way of getting closer to him...

Friday: meeting at 21.30, running through the set list I prepared, and at 12.30 we were at the door of C&M. We waited till the end of Horacio Molina's show; the place was packed with people in their sixties.

While setting up our gear, the place became almost empty. Only five tables with some 20 people to hear to us. Not bad! A friend of Claudio arrived with the help of our website: he was navigating elsewhere and found that Claudio had a guitar trio two hours before the show... GOOD!

After playing we received very good comments from the owners of the place, leaving the door opened for future gigs after the holiday season.

Monday, December 18th., 2000 2 PM at
Isla Santa Mónica, Tigre


Above, our set up after a short trip in a ship to the Isla Santa Mónica. We didn't bring a photographer to make a shot during the show... We played for 25 people while they were having lunch; managed to take part of their attention and made also an encore...

Usually, our gigs doesn't finish with champagne, in a boat like that. That's why, when work has little additional features we've got to document it!

Friday, november 17th., 2000, 10 PM at
BrewHouse Club, Estados Unidos 745, Buenos Aires.

A warm evening, very noisy because of the rush hour, when we have to do the gear transportation by ourselves. But it was OK and in 30 minutes our sound was set.

Around 85 people went to the show last Friday. Some of them arrived at 9 PM and stayed till 12.45. A real challenge considering the hardness of the wooden chairs...

The show was good with difficult moments during Fuga & Misterio and Taquito Militar. Playing tango is very demanding. We had a couple of premieres like 'Aybe Sea' from Frank Zappa and 'Ballroom' from Bill Frisell. They worked really well. On the other hand I have the feeling that some songs should take a break.

Before starting to play we had a nice surprise: George Abhufele and Ana María, two crafties from Chile came to see us. The last time we met was in March '98! They have a well-known music school in Santiago called Pro Jazz and came to BA to check how it works here.

More new people is getting to know BigTime thanks to the Internet. They come to the shows buy CD's, and recommend us to their friends. This seems to be a good mechanism for us, since we don't have any space in the specialized local press.

9/16/2000, 22 PM
Brew House Club, Estados Unidos 745.
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Back to the Brew House Club.This time we had 90 people in the audience. The place has only sixty chairs, actually, but the customers keep standing, drinking beer. The photos of the trio are very similar to the show we played in July. So we chose a couple of special photos:

Claudio looks happier than usual: his first son , Tomás, was born two weeks ago!

For this show we prepared a couple of songs we don't usually play: "Hope", "Kan-Non Power" and an extended version of "Yamanashi Blues", with seven solos in the middle part. We added a graphic equalizer to our setup and the sound was better: the Ovation line sound has a lot of middle frequencies. We had two volunteers for "El Payaso" this time, making faces and clapping hands at the same time. Wow!

One of the two "clowns" performing with the audience.

Sitting Clown still clapping...

Towards the end of the evening we played two GC standards (unplugged) with three members of the EGBA who were in the audience and came with their guitars.

7 / 7 / 2000, 22 PM
Brew House Club, Estados Unidos 745
Buenos Aires, Argentina

The weather : Cold and rainy.
In the audience: 82 people

At 9 PM we arrived at the Club and made the setup/soundcheck in forty minutes. Our recently bought Fender speakers made their debut. It was OK but we may add a graphic equalizer to our set.

Towards the end of the show, Claudio invited a member of the audience to help us with the next song.
Pato U. , our reckless volunteer, didn't know it was "El Payaso" ("The Clown") by Kabalevski... In the picture at upper right corner you can see him clapping at an increasing tempo, while coordinating expressions of sad-clown/happy-clown. ¡Thank you Pato!

We'll be back at Brew House Club on september 16 th.