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May 13th - what's happened to all the news? You're probably wondering why there's been so little hago news of late, but it's quite simple...

We've been in a quiet spell because of Easter, but in that time lots of things have happened behind the scenes and it's time to reveal some of them...

• We've expanded our repertoire to include two new pieces, and we're looking at resurrecting a third because of public demand
• You'll hear at least one of these at our concert in Portsmouth on June 23rd - part of the Portsmouth Festivities
• We've uploaded a montage of stills and videos from last year's Portsmouth Festivities, accompanied, of course, by hago playing "Portsmouth"
• Derek Hasted, our Musical Director, has added four very charming little guitar solos - just the sort of music he teaches in his one-to-one lessons - to his own YouTube Channel
• We've sent out another newsletter to our subscribers
• We're reminding you that we have a full-length concert on May 26th in aid of Naomi House children's Hospice, in the simply fantastic venue of Milford on Sea - details here - book in advance to save, or pay on the door for convenience

March 5th - yesterday was the Portsmouth Music Festival Guitar day and four of the hago team competed in a total of three sections - two duet classes and a quartet class.

We're delighted to show you the attached photo - three cups, including one for the best performance of the entire day.

The adjudicator was very complimentary on the quality of the phrasing and togetherness, and that musicality is one of hago's fundamental tenets; we hope you'll come to our concert on March 15th and enjoy an entire evening devoted to ensemble music in a great variety of styles.

February 25th - hago is 13 today!

Yes, hago is now a teenager, and rebelling against strait-laced concerts!

Come along to our next concert, on Thursday March 15th and hear a compelling mix of musical styles.

Dvorak meets Elton John and our music extends from the UK to Europe and the Americas.

January 2nd - another month, another set of visitors who came to our site from Google who clearly shouldn't have bothered! People searching for...

• British phrase for gardening - it's, er, gardening!
• Can you play the same songs on a baritone guitar? - you can but it gets very boring playing the same songs all the time...
• Classicle guitar - there's simply something rather lovely about that spelling - we wanted to share it with you!
• Guiter in pdf format - that's rather nice, you could store your "guiter" on a memory stick if you ever had to fly anywhere...
• Panto goes wild west lone arranger - happy to help :-)
• Sirefelle - well actually, as of today, we're first in Google for this!