Missing a date with John Williams, master of music

As a lifelong fan of classical guitar legend John Williams, he’d always have been at the top of my all-time wish-list of interviewees.

A few years ago, I got to interview him. Cork School of Music guitarist Jerry Creedon set it up, a 15-minute phoner during the Oz-born guitarist’s globe-trotting engagements. This was several months before he would play his second show in Cork in three years, on Apr 11, 2011. The interview went well, and appeared in print a week or so prior to Williams’s show in the Curtis Auditorium, Cork School of Music.

I had also been the reviewer for Williams’s previous show in 2008. This time around, Jerry said ! I could meet up with himself and Williams after the show, and the three of us would take in a trad session or two.