The Musician: Jacqueline ‘Jacky’ Bastek
Jacky Bastek is a Singer/Songwriter, Composer and Fingerstyle Guitarist from Eppstein, Germany.
Jacky’s progressive sound stems from a wide variety of influences, forming a genre hopping, innovative style. Her method of creating rhythm through tapping and beating her guitar, seamlessly blended with her haunting, elegant vocals creates the illusion of an entire band through a singular artist.
The Team
The Guitarbuilders:
The Beginning / Vienna, July 2017
Jacky Bastek’s first impressions:
“Last weekend I got to hang out with the European tribe of outstanding guitar luthiers. It has been a lovely experience and I’m incredibly grateful to be part of a very exciting project. Thanks to everyone for being so lovely and welcoming. It’s been amazingly inspiring to experience such a high amount of creativity in one room and I’m looking forward to seeing you all again!
(And hell yeah I wanna build guitars now!)
Sometimes life is pretty exciting and I feel incredibly honoured to be a part of this amazing project. Over the next months you can follow the process of building a custom bass, a custom electric guitar and a custom acoustic guitar on the @EGB Community Build Facebook page. And hey, one of those lovely instruments will end up in my hands. Whuuuuttt? Yesss, I am going crazy on the design. Yes, I spend most of my current time reading about wood. Yes, I am in love with the EGB. And yes, if you come to the Holy Grail Guitar Show you can try the guitar!”
Blog Acoustic CB
Rosie Heydenrych, January 2018
I’m very fortunate to be involved in a project called the EGB Community Build which is an exciting collective guitar building project. There are three community builds underway, electric, acoustic & bass and I’m part of the acoustic group. We’re building ours for a fantastic talent, Jacqueline Bastek.
I attempted to record my contribution, which was to build the acoustic guitar back. My film work is pretty amateur with the focus being somewhat off the mark in a number of takes. But I like to think this gives your eyes a nice workout – “where’s the focus going next!?” – you will wail at the screen!
The guitars will be unveiled in May this year at the The Holy Grail Guitar Show / HGGS being held in Berlin.
March 20, 2018 by Tania Spalt
Continuing in Germany with Christian
“Getting a custom guitar built is an amazing experience. It’s like watching a wooden baby grow…Yesterday I got to have a look at the neck and the fretboard of the EGB Community Build. It’s all taking shape and I am filled with a terribly huge amount of excitement and happiness.
A proud parent I am!
Love to all The European Guitar Builders that are involved in this project.”
Jacky Bastek, October 2017
March 20, 2018 by Tania Spalt
Surprise!
Sometimes the postman brings you happiness in form of a letter. And if you are really lucky, a really big one.
Thanks Deutsche Post, thanks Andy Manson and thanks to The European Guitar Builders.
Can’t wait for the EGB Community Build and the luthier fellowship to bring this baby to life!
The heroes staring in this story are:
Stoll Guitars, Turnstone Guitar Company, A.J.Lucas luthier, Atelier Jacky Walraet, Luthier, Ergon Guitars, Christian Jablonski & Andy Manson Custom Guitars
Muchos happy. That’s all I can say.
Jacky Bastek, August 2017
Jacky with Andy
“The Building of the EGB Community Build hasn’t even started yet and I already can’t contain myself.
Andy Manson Custom Guitars built me this prototype trying to convince me that this is actually happening.”
Jacky Bastek, August 2017
