Jim & Sylvia Guitar Duo

• James Kalal - Guitar, Voice, Banjo
• Sylvia Kalal - Guitar, Voice, Banjo
• Rick Shaw - Guitar, Voice, Banjo
• Ron Shaw - Guitar, Voice, Banjo

Jim & Sylvia are performing/recording artists and have released more than fifteen CDs including Classical and Contemporary guitar styles. Our music is perfect for wedding ceremonies, receptions and cocktail hours, theme parties, corporate events, concerts, teas, fares, arts and craft shows etc. Sylvia performs with the famous CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA. James performed for The Olympics in Barcelona, Spain in 1991, the 2005 Superbowl in Jacksonville, Florida as well as many concerts in the USA and abroad. Our music is regularly requested at many far away places including resorts like the Greenbrier, White Sulpher Springs, Wa., Sea Island, Ga., The Biltmore, Ca., San Francisco Parador, Granada, Spain, to name a few.

Our sartorial attire is authentic and helps create the magic needed for a theme event. It includes everything from a riverboat look of candy-stripe shirt, straw-boat hat with banjo, renaissance clothing, country-western attire, Mexican mariachi, Spanish flamenco. Our ability to sing in many languages enhances the authenticity of performing at a theme event. Our instruments include steel-string acoustic-, Spanish acoustic- and classical guitar, ukulele, four- and five-string banjo, renaissance and baroque lute. The testimonials from many of these places as well as other situations and clients are available.

• All of Me
• An Olde English Galiarde
• Arabian Dance - Tchaikovsky
• As The Deer - Christan Hymn
• As Time Goes By
• Ave Maria - F Shubert
• Ave Maria - Bach-Gounod
• Ave Verum Corpus - W A Mozart
• Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin
• Be Not Afraid - Christan Hymn
• Besame Mucho
• Blues - B B King Style
• Bolero - M Ravel
• Bolero - Traditional Flamenco
• Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - J S Bach
• Bulerias - Traditional Flamenco
• Canon in D - Pachelbel
• Changes In Latitude - Jimmy Buffett
• Cielito Lindo - Mexican Traditional
• Classical Gas
• Corcovado - A C Jobim
• Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy - Tchaikovsky
• El Paso - Marty Robbins
• Fandango - Traditional Flamenco
• Girl From Ipanema - A C Jobim
• Give Thanks - Christan Hymn
• Granada - A Lara
• Guantanamera
• Hot Hot Hot - Buster Pointdexter
• Hotel California - The Eagles
• Hotel California
• I'll Be Seeing You
• Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring - J S Bach
• Johnny Be Good - Chuck Berry
• Largo from Concerto in D - A Vivaldi
• Laudate Dominum - W A Mozart
• Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton
• Mack The Knife
• Malaguena - Traditional Flamenco
• Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
• Me And Bobby McGee
• Misty - Erroll Garner
• Moonlight Sonata - L V Beethoven
• Moorea - Gipsy Kings
• Night And Day - Cole Porter
• Panis Angelicus - Cesar Frank
• Pavan - Luis Milan
• Peaceful Easy Feeling
• Poor Boy Blues - Mark Knopfler
• Prelude for Cello - J S Bach
• Princess Bride - from the motion picture Princess Bride
• Red House Blues - Jimmy Hendrix
• Route 66
• Sevillanas - Traditional Flamenco
• Shake Shake Shake - KC and the Sunchine Boys
• Sheep May Safely Graze - J S Bach
• Siciliano - J S Bach
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
• Spanish Caravan - The Doors
• Spring Movement - A Vivaldi
• Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
• Story Book Love - from the motion picture Princess Bride
• Summertime - George Gershwin
• Take The A Train - Duke Ellington
• Tennessee Waltz
• Tequila
• That's The Way I Like It - KC and the Sunchine Boys
• The Gambler
• The Lord's Prayer - Christan Hymn
• The Prayer - Josh Groban
• Volcano - Jimmy Buffett
• Wave - A C Jobim
• When I'm 64 - The Beatles
• When You're Down and Out - Eric Clapton

Anniversaries, Apres Ski Parties, Awards Nights, Banquets, Bar Mitzvahs, Bat Mitzvahs, Birthday Parties, Children's Birthday Parties, Celebrations, Christenings, Christmas Parties, Church Services, Clubs, Coffee Shops, Community Events, Conventions, Corporate Functions, Country Clubs, Cruise Ships, Dinner Dances, Festivals, Fund Raisers, Funerals, Graduation Parties, Grand Openings, Hotels, Jingles, Movie Soundtracks, Picnic, Private Parties, Resorts, Restaurants, Reunions, Showers, Studio Session, Temples, TV Soundtracks, Weddings

• They were terrific - our guests enjoyed them and their music and mode of presentation very much! Valerie -- Valerie P, Pittsburgh, PA, 9/9/2007
• Thank you Jim and Sylvia! It was a pleasure having you play at our party. We had many compliments on your music. Best of luck in the future, and we would love to recommend you in the future! Chris & Jessie -- Jessie F, Knox, PA, 8/25/2007
• Jim and Sylvia exceeded our expectations. We were so pleased with their talent, selections, and their low key demeanor. We are a Southern couple who had to plan a casual rehearsal party in Ohio and looked to Gigmasters for music. We are very pleased with the results. Thanks, and we would definitely hire them again, if the occasion arises for their kind of music. -- Claire B, Aurora, OH, 6/22/2007

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