More fantastic audience comments

Thank you to all the audiences who have been to my concerts - see comments below - it is a privilege to welcome you and if you haven't been yet, the good news is... there is still time - just two concerts to go! So get a ticket at the box office in the lovely terrace garden behind the church and enjoy a coffee or a beer or some delicious food before the show.


'A truly remarkable display of virtuosity - it altered my perception of the guitar as an instrument totally.' Jim Mill

'As a player myself I always seek out Jonathan's concerts- a great favorite of mine at the Festival with renditions of a variety of styles and origins,of pieces beyond the Spanish repertoire... many thanks for (again) a great programme!' F. McCormack

'I come every year. Outstanding.' Serge Richard

'Very well played, a fine performance. A welcome break from the hectic Fringe!' Edward Sankey


'Really enjoyed it especially Albeniz,Gardell, Japanese piece and Theodorakis...' Jane Blessley


'Such an enjoyable musical journey around the world. Sorry not to have an encore!' Sandra Black


'Very good,as always.' John Pollard


'Very enjoyable and relaxing performance. Would definitely see this artist again.' Ingrid Nash

‘Very enjoyable and a very talented musician - incredible chord changes and amazing variation in genres.’ Ollie Nash

‘Absolutely amazing; one of the best concerts I’ve seen for a long time’ Patrick Moore

‘We come every year. We are always very pleased with the choice of pieces and the performance. The Bach Chaconne was spellbinding but all the pieces were masterly and riveting. Jonathan knocks all the other classical guitarists in the Fringe into a cocked hat.’ Andrew and Sue Russell

‘Really amazing.’ John McInerney

‘Excellent. Very enjoyable’. Ian Shiels

‘We have followed you for many years on our visits to the Fringe – from Café Royal, C Soco and St Cuthbert’s to C Too, St Columba’s… thoroughly entertaining.’ Brian and Jane Keary

A thoroughly enjoyable concert.’ Phil Kelsall

‘Brilliant! Really enjoyable programme. A good mix. What a talent!’ G Fenwick

‘Amazing.’ N D Fabro

‘Great!’ Mark

‘I’ve been for two years previously – loved it as always.’ Christine Waddell

‘Superb.’ Craig Thomson

‘Great from start to finish – our first port of call at the Fringe. A must!’ Tom Rodger

 ‘Also saw the show last year and enjoyed. Very good variety of music, excellent performance.’ Helena Mansbridge

'Beautiful, interesting, enchanting.' Mallory Goring 

'A cornucopia of all good music - best programme I've heard him play...' S. Kennedy

'Excellent - a lovely way to travel the world.' Robert Davidson 

'I've been to his concert the last 2 or three years. Great choice of music, as in previous years, a variety of styles. I think Jonathan has been improving year by year and I look forwsard to seeing him again.' N.M. McMichael

On my day off I got more than one breath of fresh air - Beecraigs beach

Lothian Life Review for Classical Guitar - Jonathan Prag

I'm delighted to have got another really nice review for my show - this time from Lothian Life
http://www.lothianlife.co.uk/2012/08/classical-guitar-jonathan-prag/#more-11990

Jonathan Prag has been a regular at the Festival Fringe since 1992. After twenty years, the quality of his performances mark him out as one the Fringe’s finest musicians.
Classical Guitar – Jonathan Prag (1.30 pm, until 27 August, at C too, St Columba’s by the Castle, Johnstone Terrace) is a reminder, if we need it, of the emotional power of the solo guitar. It is also performed in a wonderful setting. St Columba’s is a small Victorian architectural gem, with a plain, lightsome interior, a totally fitting venue (marginally spoiled by the modernist mural behind the altar) for this scale of musical event.
Prag started with Villa Lobos, “the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music,” whose two great influences were Brazilian folk music and JS Bach. Neatly and aptly, his next piece was the First Suite for Solo Lute by JS Bach.
Prag continued to exemplify the guitar’s versatility and its capacity to move and challenge the listener. He ranged expertly through Irish traditional folk tunes, a wonderful version of Cole Porter’s ‘Begin the Beguine’ and work by Flamenco master Paco Peña. A reverberating Tango by Ástor Piazolla was accompanied by Prag’s explanation of the dangers of musical innovation: Piazolla was reviled, threatened and spat upon by many Tango traditionalists in Argentina prior to his genius becoming more commonly accepted.
This was a gripping performance from which it was hard to select high-spots because of the quality of the concert as a whole. Certainly his rendition of the Staten Island Hornpipe had toes tapping throughout the hall and his version of Bela Bartok’s Rumanian Folk Dances held the rapt attention of the entire audience.
This was technical excellence and quiet restraint brought to bear on a programme with wide appeal. No other instrument quite achieves the same impact as the solo guitar, that sense for the listener of being entirely alone as the music strips away every inessential emotion. It was therefore entirely fitting that Prag’s well-deserved encore was a moving version of Mal Waldron’s song for Billie Holiday, ‘I’m Left Alone’.
We can only trust that after these first twenty years, the appearances at the Fringe will remain high on Jonathan Prag’s priority list