News and Updates Archive
2/28/2007Check out this flamenco video on YouTube. It features Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana who will be performing at Strathmore this Tuesday March 6th.
Added pics from Tamara's introductory flamenco workshop this past Saturday.
Read Behzad's guest post on The History of the Cajón in Carol Basilio's blog.
If you can’t read, you’re more flamenco. If you don’t know music, you’re more flamenco. I think those are now obsolete opinions...
Read the Flamenco World interview with guitarist Juan Manuel Cañizares.
2/26/2007Added a blog entry about flamencos and the art of gift giving.
Read this interview with Gerardo Núñez and Carmen Cortés about their performance last Thursday in New York.
2/25/2007Added a blog entry (with pics!) about last night's Sala Rociera flamenco party.
The Washington City Paper recently made its old articles free of charge, yay! Check out this November 2000 article about the DC flamenco scene titled Tap into America.
2/23/2007
Flamenco guitarist Ruben Romero has passed away. On the cover of his CD Native Flamenco
When I started many years ago women were more popular. Then for a while it was men. And now it’s women again. And long may it continue!
Read this recent interview with Manuela Carrasco.
Read the review of the Los Angeles performance by Sara Baras.
2/22/2007Read about the latest flamenco dress design trends in Flamenco World's article on the 2007 SIMOF flamenco fashion show.
2/21/2007The dress has to have something that only somebody linked to the world of flamenco could create.
Read this article titled Flamenco fashions with runway flair.
Read Carol Basilio's take on Rafaela Carrasco's New York performance.
I can remember in October 1998, DC flamenco guitarist Richard Marlow and I drove 5 hours to see Gerardo Núñez perform at Duke University. It so happens Gerardo will be performing in New York this Thursday at World Music Institute. Road trip anyone?
Reporter Joy Goodwin gets it wrong when writing about the New York performance of Bienal de Sevilla: "From the moment Ms. Pericet strode onstage [at City Center] for her first American Cantiñas..."
The USA debut was actually in DC at Lisner Auditorium two days before the New York show! Ugh.
Would you believe that dancer Joaquín Cortés has been appointed as an ambassador?
Cafe Citron was reviewed on DCguide.com and includes a photo by yours truly. A cropped version of the photo was used in a Cafe Citron blog entry almost a year ago.
You don’t need to make up new rhythms, but rather go on deciphering cante’s rhythm
Read the Flamenco World interview with percussionist Nacho Arimany who performed this past Saturday with Rafaela Carrasco at Lisner.
2/19/2007Read the Washington Post review of Sara Baras and Rafaela Carrasco.
Read Carol Basilio's take on the Gala Bienal show in New York.
Gia Kourlas in her New York Times review got it wrong in referring to last Thursday's show of Gala de Bienal at City Center as the US debut. The US debut was actually in DC two days earlier. Ugh.
Here's American University's review of Lisner's flamenco festival.
Here are the New York Times reviews of Sara Baras and Rafaela Carrasco.
2/18/2007Added pics from backstage after the Rafaela Carrasco concert at Lisner Auditorium.
2/16/2007
Percussionist dancer Jason Vera y Aragón and guitarist Richard Marlow both celebrate their birthdays this week. We're having a party for Jason at Las Tapas tonight from 10pm on. Please come!
2/15/2007Read the review of Lisner's Bienal de Sevilla concert from Tuesday.
2/14/2007Added pics from last night's Post-gala artist reception.
Here's a review of Rafaela Carrasco's Una Mirada al Flamenco from August 2006. Here's another one from this past weekend in Boston. She's performing with her company this Saturday at Lisner Auditorium.
2/13/2007What are you thoughts about the Bienal de Sevilla concert at Lisner? Feel free to post on message board.
Wrote a little something about flamenco guitarist Gino D'Auri who passed away last month.
2/12/2007Read Ken McNaughton's review of Paco de Lucia's show at Lisner from Friday. Also checkout the Washington Post review.
Read the New York Times review of Paco de Lucía's show from Saturday.
Just added a bunch of upcoming flamenco events for the next few months. For details, see my flamenco calendar.
Read the interview with Rafaela Carrasco. She performs at Lisner this Saturday!
Checkout the pics of dancer Amilia Hernandez's performance at Ebenezer's from February 2nd.
Check out this cool pic of dancer Sarah Hart taken by Christopher Kobar.
2/11/2007Added pics from Saturday's flamenco night at Tapeo.
...flamenco opened my eyes to what it was to have passion
Checkout today's Sunday Source for an interview with dancer Sara Jerez-Marlow titled The Whirling World of a Flamenco Dancer.
You're going to be hearing about Rodrigo and Gabriela sooner or later--they'll be in DC on March 20th. And the press will inevitably pigeonhole them as flamenco guitarists. They are amazing musicians and I love the fact that they prefer not to be called flamencos or any other specific label. Guitarist Gabriela Quintero says, "The truth is, I don't really know how flamenco musicians do things. I often try to copy their riffs, and I end up making different rhythms in the process...it's good that we're not tied to any specific techniques, because that provides a certain type of freedom."
Thanks to Niko for this info!
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