Tony Putaggio - An Assault on Your Senses
~ LIVE PERFORMANCE REVIEW Tony Putaggio with Johan Blanchard at Perlas in Potrero, Guanacaste, Costa Rica Saturday, August 20th, 2016 Being a new musician to the area, I've been aggressively trying to see, experience, meet and collaborate with every musician/band I can. In doing so, I found that the talent in these parts is quite impressive. But I came across a talent that I felt was out of everyone’s league. I recently had the pleasure and good fortune of catching Tony Putaggio with Johan Blanchard, a progressive flamenco guitar duo that hail from Bordeaux, France at Perlas in Potrero. Johan was basically the thunder to Tony’s lightning, who’s talents were off the charts as well, but ‘the show’ was Tony and Johan as well as everyone else in the room knew it. I was not a particular ‘fan’ of flamenco guitar, but not an enemy either. It just wasn’t something that I reach for. But I knew enough about it to know the technical skill required just to call yourself a 'progressive flam