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I knew that Thierry Crommen and Bill Barrett made a good connection at the festival so I asked Thierry for a quote. Here it is :

Meeting Bill was a real pleasure for me, one of the strong moments of this festival: it was as much learning to know the person as it was hearing him live. I felt that, as with all innovators, it is a great originality in his approach to the instrument combined with an amazing musical culture and an impressive technique that make him an exceptional musician. Bill approaches the chromatic harmonica as a polyphonic instrument (he works on patterns and exercices borrowed from classical guitar, accordeon, banjo, etc.) and his amazing mastery of tongue blocking is the technique he has developed to achieve this goal. The man and his musicality make the rest...