I have at least four weaknesses to which I find it almost impossible to be without: My wife Joani, good food, fine scotch and fine guitar music. An evening with all of them? Cool!

      Last January we drove over to Pennsauken, New Jersey for a dinner concert which was carefully put together by Vicki Senbertrand. Presenting a concert is risky at best, just ask our treasurer Brian Egras. But for Vicki to put together a dinner concert with a relatively unknown guitar quartet was quite an undertaking. You work on and worry about all the details and "what if nobody comes". Well enough came and enjoyed it so that she says she wants to do it again. Now that's a guitar lover.

      We met our friends Megan and Brian (the aforementioned treasurer). The venue, The Woodbine, is a fifty's-style one-story banquet facility, with several rooms for functions. This was, in my opinion, the only drawback of the evening. I had the feeling that it had been smoked in since the day it was built and had never been aired out. It could also use a remodeling.

      The dinner, a buffet of mostly Italian cuisine, was nicely prepared, displayed, and served, and the waitstaff was friendly. It was pleasant to be with good friends, sipping wine from an adequately stocked bar and chatting of things trivial.

      The concert came shortly after. Another room was set aside with a makeshift stage with antique floor lamps on each side to provide an intimate feeling to the room. Quanternaglia is a Brazilian quartet with one left-handed and three right-handed guitarists. Their playing was skillful even if occasionally ragged. Their program was well balanced, ranging from Toroba to Brouwer, with a section dedicated to Sérgio Assad, Luigi Boccherini, and Paulo Bellinati, which gave them a chance to show off their considerable prowess with Brazilian rhythms. I hope that Vicki won't give up on the idea of the dinner concert. It's a good one. Good luck with it.