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National Guitar Festival in Dolores
A week-long folk-guitar festival in Dolores, Buenos Aires province, launched in 1990 as a neighborhood tribute to composer Abel Fleury. Nightly concerts run alongside traditionalist gaucho displays and a large open-air craft fair, closing with the crowning of a National Guitar Queen. Dolores calls itself the country's 'first native town,' and the festival runs smaller and more intimate than Cosquin despite a comparable stretch of consecutive nights.
Dolores' guitar festival began in 1990, organized by a group of neighbors as a tribute to Abel Fleury, a locally connected composer and guitarist whose fingerstyle arrangements remain part of the standard repertoire for Argentine folk guitarists.