“The intimate crowd sat captivated Sunday afternoon at Oddfellows Hall as Jose Luis’s lightning quick fingers strummed away on his flamenco guitar with surgical precision. But the instant de la Paz slammed his hand on the guitar signaling the end of a song, the audience came to roaring life.

“If you were God this is how you would play the guitar,” Boyd said. “His command of the guitar is just that ridiculous, there’s no other way to describe it.”