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Thirty years in pictures

Concert halls and festivals, theatres at sea, studios and encounters with legends, friends and fellow travellers. Click a photo to enlarge it.

Live

On stage

Leo and Raughi in the spotlight

Live with band — Live with bandPhoto: Blade-Fotografie

Rehearsal at the Festival d’été de Québec, 2001, with Bob Brozman and DJ Ram

Live at the Festival d’été de Québec, 2001, with Bob Brozman, DJ Ram and Ganesh Anandan

Live as a duo

Leo on lap steel guitar

Tierra Negra & Band with Daniel San Leandro Fernandes and Minerva Díaz Pérez

A big guitar set-up on stage at the Steinhof in Duisburg for the premiere of “Summer Stories”, 2017 — A big guitar set-up on stage at the Steinhof in Duisburg for the premiere of “Summer Stories”, 2017Photo: Blade-Fotografie

The stage is set: guitars, cajón and djembe before the show at the Forum Wasserturm, Meerbusch, 2025

Ready for the theatre concert on board MS Europa 2

Newport Guitar Festival, Florida, 2010, with Laurence Juber, Muriel Anderson and Phil Keaggy

With Luna Lee (South Korea, gayageum) at the Theater im Bauturm, Cologne, 2014

The view from the stage, NAMM Show, Anaheim

Music China, Shanghai, around 2012 — Music China, Shanghai, around 2012Photo: Pekka Rintala

International Finger-Style Guitar Festival, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, 2012

On the road

On the road

Leo and Raughi in Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 2006 — Leo and Raughi in Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 2006Photo: Ralf Zenker

The Arch in Hawaii

Leo in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, 2020

Guitar duo on the road

Leo in Oman

Rehearsal

Studio

In the studio

Leo and Raughi at a photo shoot

Leo and Raughi

Raughi recording

Danny Gottlieb and Leo recording drums at Tonstudio Keusgen for the album “New World Flamenco”

Tonino Baliardo (Gipsy Kings) with the Tierra Negra guitar in the studio in Paris

Leo recording “Para Ti” in 1999

Daniel Guthausen: drums, samba whistle and percussion for “Para Ti”, 1999

Leo and Raughi in 1999 with the mobile studio, recording drums for the album “Para Ti”

Legends, friends, fellow travellers

Encounters among the stars

Leo and Raughi with Jürgen Klopp on board MS Europa 2, 2024

With Muriel Anderson and Stu Hamm

Leo with Lee Ritenour

Leo with Albert Lee at the NAMM Show

The day we met Muriel Anderson: at our stand at the Nuremberg Guitar Days, Schloss Almoshof, around 2005

With Muriel Anderson — With Muriel AndersonPhoto: BullPhotoArt

With Muriel Anderson and luthier Linda Manzer

Hotel room session with Victor Wooten

With Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, at Midem, Cannes, 2005

With fingerstyle champion Don Alder, O.C.