First of all, I'd like to wish you all an excellent year 2024, lots of happiness, good vibes and why not music, and a good health (the best possible one) !!!

I had the great pleasure of meeting him at SPAH the 60th in Saint-Louis this year, also amused by his blue beard, which for a Frenchman evokes a famous tale by Charles Perrault written in 1697:
 
Elihú Barba Azul is an excellent Mexican harmonica player, far much friendlier and far more approachable than the hero of the fairy tale "Bluebeard".

As for the other anecdote, I was all the happier to come across a Mexican harmonica player in the first place because the present page of this site was born at the urging of a Mexican harmonica player who sent me several messages a little over 20 years ago to encourage me not to concentrate my site on harmonica in the French-speaking parts of the world, but to open it up to the whole world! The story doesn't say whether the harmonica player in question was Elihú...in any case, I consider that the Mexican at the time strongly encouraged me and even convinced me that I could make my small contribution to the harmonica community, and I thank him again.

Regarding "Elihú Barba Azul", I'd like to highlight a short video of him sharing the stage with cellists.