News and Updates Archive - June 2003
6/29/2003See the photos from Arte Flamenco's 3rd annual recital at the Coloquio website.
6/28/2003Rumba group Duende Camarón has just released their first CD. You can purchase the CD at any of their shows. They'll be at Las Tapas tonight 703-836-4000.
6/25/2003The flamenco-teacher website is back up again. Guess what? The new administrator is a DC area flamenco guitarist. To find out who it is, visit the website.
Here's an interesting concept: International Flamenco Meetup Day
Dancer Tamara Sol Flys leaves for Spain today. She'll be back in two weeks.
Bambule is starting a weekly flamenco show tomorrow night (Thursday) at 8pm. Featuring dancers Shahram Tehranian and Anna Menendez with guitarist Guillermo Christie. Call (202)966-0300.
6/23/2003The Wednesday night shows at Las Tapas have been cancelled. You can still enjoy flamenco at Las Tapas on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Call (703)836-4000.
Singer/guitarist Gerárd Moreno is back from Spain and is performing tonight at Café Citrón.
Congrats to the students of Natalia Monteleón who performed in the Annual Arte Flamenco Student Recital last night at Slayton House in Columbia, MD. I joined guitarists Ralph Pemberton and Michael Blalock accompanying singer Javier Bustamante and the students and "graduates" in a recital that clearly made Natalia very proud. I was too busy to take a lot of pictures. Here's one of a few of her students with "graduate" Cori Bernal.
Yours truly will be performing with Arte Flamenco this Saturday at 8pm at the Latino Fest in Baltimore. Here's a photo from last year's show (courtesy of Behzad).
6/22/2003Philly-based Flamenco Olé performed at the Multi-Cultural Festival in Parkersburg, West Virginia yesterday. Details.
"Flamenco can be modern and still pure, and flamenco can be traditional and yet vibrant."
Read the interview with Paco Peña.
6/20/2003Read the review of Compañía María Pagés who performed last night in Boston.
6/19/2003Arte Flamenco's annual student recital is coming this Sunday June 22 at 7pm. It's at the Slayton House. Admission is $5. See some photos from last year's recital
There's a scene in the current film L'Auberge Espagnole which uses a snippet of flamenco in the soundtrack. Can you identify the artists and the album? (Don't google it until after you've seen the film.)
Manuel Michalowski just sent me his Desert Island List.
Read the Washington Post review of Tuesday night's performance by Farruquito/Compañía María Pagés. Feel free to post your own reviews or comments on the message board.
6/18/2003Guitarist/singer Gerárd Moreno is back from Spain. He'll be performing at Cafe Citrón again starting this Monday.
6/17/2003"Some people call all of us 'chinos.' Sometimes, it's just the way that well-meaning people speak, but for others it's a derogatory thing."
Read the interview with dancer Shoji Kojima at the Flamenco-World website.
Just heard that the Thursday night rumba show by Duende Camarón at Bambule has been cancelled.
6/16/2003Farewell to friends who recently relocated outside of DC:
- dancer Karen Araujo (New York)
- dancer Minerva Chandler (Greece)
- guitarist Michael Long (Arizona)
- Reena Wietzke (South Carolina)
Congrats to Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana which celebrated its 20th anniversary in a performance at the Joyce Theater in New York. Read the review in the New York Times (requires registration)
6/13/2003I heard that the Flamenco-Teacher forum may be back up again soon with a new owner. In the meantime there's a new forum at the deflamenco website. (I read about this at FlamencoDisc.)
Just added Reston-based dancer Gloria Monge to the teachers page.
6/12/2003Marty Dow's Jerez Diary, which first appeared here on the DC Flamenco website, was recently published on the deflamenco.com website. Congrats to Marty!
It's not too late to sign up for the Sevillanas Workshop by Anna Menendez at the American Dance Institute in Rockville. 8pm-9pm Mondays through July 28th. $15 per class walk-in. Call (301)984-3003 to register.
6/11/2003The DC Flamenco website was recently listed at the our-dc website as one of the "elements that make [DC] a singular place to live and to visit."
15-year-old Wes Adams, studying guitar since age 5, will give his first public flamenco performance on Friday June 20 11am-1pm near the Ann Taylor store at Mazza Gallerie (down the street from Bambule). Details
On June 17th, about an hour before the Maria Pages/Farruquito concert, guitarist Richard Marlow and dancers Anna Menendez and Edwin Aparicio will be giving a pre-performance preview. Here is a photo that was taken at the pre-performance preview in August 2000 before the Noche Flamenca concert at Wolf Trap. The dancers, who studied locally with Ana Martinez, were accompanied by guitarist José Antonio.
Spanish women don't need men to dance. All we need is music.
Read the article from Saturday's Virginian Pilot. Thanks to José de Guadalupe for this info.
6/10/2003Interesting fact: the producer of the very popular Solo Compás series of practice CD's is Japanese. His name is Taketo Tomoshigue. He lives in Sevilla with his Japanese wife who is an established flamenco dancer there. (Thanks to local dance student Mia Hsu for this info)
Last week I announced that Toro Tapas cancelled their flamenco show. This week I heard that Toro Tapas will be bringing back its flamenco show (again)--maybe as soon as this Wednesday. Call (703)379-0502 to confirm.
I dance with a free soul. When I start dancing, I don't know where it's going to lead me...
Read this brief interview with Antonio Canales, Juana Amaya and Farruquito.
6/9/2003Joaquín Grilo dedicated his Friday night show in Cleveland to the memory of Manolo Soler.
Chicuelo fans might want to check out this CD by singer Juaneke.
6/8/2003Old timers in the DC Flamenco scene will recognize the name Manny Rocca. He was a flamenco guitarist who was active in DC a while back. Currently, he's in Spain as a photographer. Some of his work can be seen at the deflamenco website
Just heard that Manolo Soler passed away at the age of 60. Here is a photo that was taken in January 2003 at a reception at the Spanish Ambassador's residence in DC.
I was just at Calavera Restaurant last night where guitarist Torcuato and dancers Susana Granada, Sara Jerez and Micaela Moreno performed (Alma la Terremoto Graciela Vega and Linda Moll, former members of Danza del Río company, briefly joined them onstage). They have shows there about once a month. Call (202)537-3200.
6/7/2003Congrats to dancer Tamára Sol Flys [pronunciation: rhymes with "bliss"] who made her DC tablao debut at Elena's Oven last night accompanied by yours truly. My thanks to all our friends who came out to support their local flamenco artists. Here is a photo from her debut.
6/6/2003As you know, a number of talented flamencos have left recently left DC. Good news is that some new ones are coming in. One of them is Tamára Sol Flys who dropped by Cafe Citrón last Monday. I was impressed with her Sevillanas and bulerías. Hopefully we'll see more of Tamara in the near future. (She danced flamenco professionally in Arizona and recently moved to Baltimore where she has a few students--see teachers page for contact info.)
Just heard that Toro Tapas cancelled their weekly flamenco show.
6/4/2003Film-maker Jocelyn Ajami informs me that Queen of the Gypsies won a top award, the Gold Remy Award for Documentary Filmmaking at the Worldfest in Houston and now the documentary was one of thirteen selected out of several hundred to the IFP Los Angeles Film Festival.
Early booking discount, for the first ever Classical Guitar Cruise, available until June 15th. DC-based guitarist Marija Temo will be giving a flamenco performance and workshop, possibly including a dancer.
6/2/2003Congrats to dancer Sandra Bishop who performed at Thyme Square Cafe in Bethesda last Friday (acccompanied by yours truly). There's usually a show there every other month. Call (301)657-9077. Thanks to Ken McNaughton for the photo.
Back by popular demand, the "Flamenco not Flamingo" mug at CafePress.com
Joaquín Serrano, owner of the former Andalucía de Bethesda has opened a charming new restaurant called Sol de Andaluscia at 8386 Rockville Pike in Rockville, MD. Call (240)314-0202. At present, there is no flamenco show there. The original Andalucía, located in Rockville since 1990, features flamenco on Thursday nights. Call (301)770-1880.
Café Citrón, which features flamenco on Monday nights, has recently added some nice photos to their website. Go to www.cafecitrondc.com and click on "events," then click on "Monday." You'll see a very brief flamenco history together with links to recent photos of the weekly flamenco show.
6/1/2003New weekly flamenco show on Fridays at Elena's Oven restaurant in Fairfax, VA. Featuring dancers Sara Candela and Sara Jerez-Marlow with guitarist Michael Pérez. Call (703)352-0917.
Also, rumba group Duende Camarón performs at Elena's Oven during lunch on Sundays. Call (703)352-0917.
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