Day Two: Concert The Guitar Company
The three members of The Guitar Company -Bobby Rootveld, Jaap Majoor and Niels Ottink- are all part of the organisation comittee of the Twenthe Guitar Festival. During the festival days they were quite busy with all arrangements to be made. Despite this workload, they came on stage, assisted by Paul Driessen, board member number four.
On stage it turned out that they put the Workshop Stage Presentation into practice well: they were uniformly dressed and all carried the same Kruidvat plastic bag (Kruidvat is a popular drugstore in Holland) with attributes for the concert.
They played nice and pleasant classical and entertainment music in various ensemble formations. Some of the pieces were embedded in an act. Their opening as Guitar-Maffia before playing The Pink Panther by Mancini is a striking example.
Being an organizer of a festival like this, you are tremendously occupied with non-musical business. Hence it is quite an exploit to hit the stage with a program, even though it is a bit risky. Niels Ottink told the press afterwards, that they should not have played while being so busy. I have heard The Guitar Company playing before, without the pressure of the organisation and I must admit: Niels was quite right.