David Spelman is a music producer working in live events, recordings, and films. Best known as the founder and curator of the New York Guitar Festival and Los Angeles’ UnSilent Cinema, he serves as artistic advisor to music festivals, museums, and performing arts centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia.

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  • "a genuinely international event, curated by David Spelman, the man behind the world-renowned New York Guitar Festival."

    - Rolling Stone

  • "To attract top-flight talent, Luminato tapped into the mind and rolodex of David Spelman"

    - Toronto Globe and Mail

  • "An epic event"

    - Wall Street Journal

  • "The excellent and diverse New York Guitar Festival..."

    - The New Yorker

  • "This innovative, stylistically elastic festival..."

    - The New York Times

  • "Never before have we had a festival like this... the Guitar Festival was a roaring success and an unqualified winner... whoever thought of it has seized on a brilliant idea and pulled it off remarkably well in its first year. The key was linking it up with the New York Guitar Festival and creating a southern sister to that event."

    - The Adelaide Reviewe

  • "One of the world's most forward-thinking guitar festivals."

    - Fretboard Journal

  • "A comprehensive celebration of all things picked, plucked and strummed... a guitar hound's paradise"

    - Time Out New York

  • "The renowned New York Guitar Festival has spread its wings to Adelaide"

    - The Melbourne Age (Australia)