Music of Esteban

One of the things that surprised us most about Prescott was the quality of music here, and coming from New Orleans, our standards are pretty high. Of special note is the world-renowned classical guitarist Esteban, who is a local resident and performs locally at the historic Elks Theater. In this episode we recall his most recent appearance and what he has coming up.

hello hello peeps every time you say that it’s right in my ear hello peeps she’s the pickle lady i’m her sidekick we are in prescott arizona we sell real estate among other things we’re bringing you up what it was doing i think restaurants we do a lot of restaurants for you yeah but i don’t get it cuz i don’t get paid for that i don’t get paid for that that’s just pure joy for me yeah sharing every now and then we get a free drink that’s about it not really not really because we don’t do it in a location we should get a lot more than what we do i’ll tell you that much yeah but i i i’m gonna let that go because we just have so much fun talking about uh things here in prescott but here we’re not going to talk about things to eat on this episode we’re going to talk about things to listen to things to listen to something you should know here in prescott great great music scene an amazing music scene oh yeah and coming from new orleans we were like oh sure i’m saying a lot yeah that’s it a lot we’re from new orleans and you’re messed with the music that’s saying a lot we’re pretty impressed because we you know our our bar was pretty high i’m not sure let’s see and we went a couple of times i’m like wow that’s good a lot of good great local talent uh regional town we also get people coming up from phoenix yep all the time you know the the phoenix symphony comes up here and plays in the square they also play at yavapai community college we have a lot of local bands that play all the time on whiskey row that are phenomenal and then there are a lot of great cover bands who also come in play and we go see them at the elks theater one of them it’s not a band it’s one person yeah we’re we’re going to go see the carole king carol king tapestry tapestries the cover band yeah my personal favorite is actually a local resident by the name of esteban i love him i love him so i love him too yeah a world renowned uh guitar player and classically trained right classically trained by segovia segovia a lot of people kind of consider him to be the heir to segovia unbelievable what this guy can do with a guitar and he lives here in prescott so he has retired here yeah he plays only regionally now uh you know california arizona probably vegas yeah uh but he does a hand like two or three four uh concerts a year here right here at the right here else theater in prescott that’s right and we love it we always go one year we went for mother’s day and brought randall’s mom yeah and for me and we went and he plays with his daughter teresa yes who is an amazing violin amazing amazing and he has a great drummer yeah a great drummer the guy’s phenomenal uh at the last concert i think he did a couple of drum solos yeah had me just blown away and his daughter’s an amazing improvisation on a violin oh i don’t know that there’s a lot of people doing that no i mean you know theresa joy is her name so we go and as soon as he starts playing i always start to tear up just it’s just it’s just beautiful to hear a classical guitarist just very moving it’s just it’s just beautiful yeah and he last time we went he played 90 minutes straight because he also talks a lot about his personal life and how he got uh on this path and his journey and that’s that’s a lot of fun yeah very inspirational very inspirational and you know he talks about uh you know his life as a musician and tells stories and he tells him well is always funny he’s always funny so we highly if you’re a musical person uh you’ll love it here you’ll love it it’s a huge variety i think he mentioned in the concert that his son is going to be um i don’t know how permanent or how often that’s going to be that’s right the basis yeah but yes it basis and so uh i look forward to seeing that yeah so he’s going to do another concert april you’re thinking about visiting and you’re here april 9th make sure you check him out yeah grab a ticket just one it’s a wonderful evening and then go have a nice dinner yeah it was really we did it for valentine’s he is a treasure and he like the rest of us here have totally embraced life here in prescott and what prescott represents and uh enough that he retired here yeah that’s right so we take that as a big shot in the arm so thank you esteban and thank you for all your beautiful concerts absolutely they touch our heart all the time we love it yeah he did uh he did a rendition of norwegian wood which is the beatles song that uh they have the sitar that george harrison so he kind of did this sitar thing which i mean no offense to george harrison but oh my god it was amazing it was always a guitar like how did you do that i think it was making sounds he didn’t think a guitar could do but yeah it was uh it was amazing that’s what that’s what that sounds a little weird excuse me that kind of twangy sound that sits do i don’t know how he managed to do that it was cool it was cool anyway so if you’re coming here no you’ll have a lot of entertainment you’ll love it 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