The Flamenco Thief
Craig Sutton, better known as The Flamenco Thief, plays jazz mixed with flamenco. This ambitious, English virtuoso, who travels and performs tirelessly, often treats his guitar as a purely rhythmic, percussion instrument, in front of crowds, who because of it love to get down and dance the night away. The Flamenco Thief is a fast and precise old-school guitar player, but a capable artist who loves to use modern guitar effects and rhythms close to hip-hop. As he himself says, ska and hip-hop, and most of all gypsy swing, were most influential on his style.
His debut EP The Flamenco Thief, released in the UK four years ago, quickly gained favor with renowned music critics from the BBC and New Musical Express magazine. Two years later, he released an album titled Liberating Parts Of The Cosmos, a successful collection of recordings which led him to three month long European tour (touring 17 countries all together). Finally, last year, The Flamenco Thief returned to the road, and in the space of just ten months performed no less than 250 times, in 40 different countries!
To the Street Musicians Festival The Flamenco Thief arrives as part of his current European Summer Tour. As we found out, in July he performed in Great Britain and Germany, while August is reserved for the Czech Republic, Poland and the Ukraine. Owner of numerous honors and awards for an innovative approach to utilization of the Spanish guitar, Craig Sutton will on the Street Musicians Festival and the crowd in the center of Novi Sad, have not just one, but two fantastic performances!
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