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The Adelaide International Guitar Festival (AIGF) is Australia's largest guitar festival, held biennially in the South Australian Capital of Adelaide. The AIGF is the sister event to the New York Guitar Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newyorkguitarfestival.org/cgi/show.cgi?db=content&uid=default&view_records=1&Group=news&ID=215&mh=1 )〕 The AIGF features local, national and international artists across a variety of genres including rock, jazz, classical, experimental, blues and roots music. The festival is held at the Adelaide Festival Centre located in the heart of Adelaide and presents some of the most distinctive and influential guitarists from around Australia and the world. Following negotiations with the New York Guitar Festival's founder David Spelman, South Australian Premier Mike Rann announced in 2007 that Adelaide would stage the first Adelaide International Guitar Festival later in the year.〔The Age, "The Festival With Strings Attached", Penelope Debelle, 5 June 2007〕 On 30 March 2009, The Adelaide Festival Centres CEO, Douglas Gautier, along with recently appointed AIGF Artistic Director Slava Grigoryan announced the festival was to become a biannual event to ensure there was "more planning and lead time to secure artists and projects which excite audiences, partners and sponsors."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.aappac.net/pdf/2009/Adelaide%20International%20Guitar%20Festival%20-%2030%20March%202009.pdf ) 〕 == Past events == The AIGF began in 2007 as part of the plan to make the Adelaide Festival Centre "the nation's most innovative arts hub."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newyorkguitarfestival.org/cgi/show.cgi?db=content&uid=default&view_records=1&ID=227&Group=news&mh=1 )〕 David Spelman founder of the New York Guitar Festival, served as the founding artistic director for the Festival and continues serve as an international program advisor. The ten-day festival was modeled on the New York Guitar Festival, and drew 30 thousand people in the first year. The ''Adelaide Advertiser'' wrote that "never before have we had a festival like this... the Guitar Festival was a roaring success and an unqualified winner." ''Rolling Stone'' called it "a genuinely international event... curated by David Spelman, the man behind the world-famous New York Guitar Festival". Over 100 musicians from around the world performed in over 40 events spanning many genres, with attendance in excess of 30,000 each year; the Festival promises to become an "important and permanent fixture in Australia’s music events calendar."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adelaide International Guitar Festival」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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