News and Updates Archive

3/30/2007

Guitarist singer Gerard Moreno now has a profile on MySpace with music samples.

3/29/2007

Read my first blog in more than a week: Reminiscing: good times and a few (of many) flamenco friends from Cafe Citron.

Dancer Edwin Aparicio is now teaching weekly classes at DC Dance Collective on Friday nights.

My friend Chris has some original prints of DC area flamenco performers available in his online store.

3/27/2007

Boston-based photographer Niko Alexandrou celebrates his birthday this week. He's provided the DC flamenco community with hundreds of professional quality photos over the years. Check out his flamenco photo exhibition from last year. In fact, I use one of his fabulous photos for my website logo (see top of this page). Thank you Niko for everything and happy birthday!

3/23/2007

DC-based Guitarist percussionist Behzad Habibzai now has a monthly column in the Philly flamenco website titled Hear here.

Just heard: Taberna del Alabadero has three flamenco performances tonight, starting at 7ish-- Richard Marlow is playing. Even if the dinner seatings are sold out, there's usually standing room at the tapas bar. 202-429-2200
Thanks to Heather for the info.

3/22/2007

Yeah, I got the spring fever. :-) Thanks for all your emails asking me how I'm doing. With the recent warm weather, I've basically unplugged from the 'Net for a few days to get some fresh air and "exercise." I'll catch up on email and website updates soon.

3/19/2007

Posted a quick blog entry about my flamenco-filled weekend.

3/16/2007

Rhino flamenco on YouTube. My thanks to Pamela for referring me to this video.

The Philly Flamenco website is being renovated. Many thanks to Joy Gant for her two years of service as webmaster.

A very nice customer from Las Tapas posted a 13-second video of our flamenco tablao show from last Tuesday with Edwin, Anna and yours truly. Here are the pics.

Read about my day leading up to last night's flamenco gig with Ginette.

3/14/2007

I take pride in saying that two well-known highly-regarded flamenco websites are run by flamencos from DC: Miguelito (that's me!) for DCFlamenco.com and Ramin Rad who runs flamenco-teacher.com. It just so happens his birthday is this week. Happy birthday Ramin! Click on da pic to read the interview I did with him in 2002.

In addition to its already successful Saturday night flamenco shows, Tapeo (in Pentagon City) will try adding a second weekly flamenco show this Friday at 7:30pm featuring guitarist Kike with dancers Isabel and Nelson.

3/13/2007

Just heard that there will be a flamenco show at Busboys and Poets on Tuesday March 20th. It's a fundraiser for César Chávez Public Charter School for Public Policy. Thanks to Heather for this info.

3/12/2007

This Tuesday March 13th at 8:00pm Behzad Habibzai has put together a show titled Carmen's Tablao Flamenco at Gala Theatre-Tivoli 3333 14th St NW DC. Cast includes guitarist Behzad, cantaor Carlton Ashton, featured dancer Anna Menendez, members of Arte Flamenco and Spanish Dance Society, Anamer "Carmen" Castrello, Peter "Don José" Burroughs and pianist Carlos Rodriguez. Tickets $25. Call 202-234-7174.

Added pics from the Sunday matinee performance of Ulrika Frank's Café Flamenco.

Checkout the pics from Saturday night at Tapeo with dancers Ginette Perea and Nelson Sitton.

3/11/2007

Read the review of Noche Flamenca's Friday night show in Dallas. They'll be coming to Richmond later this month. See calendar.

3/8/2007

With most Flamenco these days, 95 percent is not improvised. But for Noche Flamenca, I try to force soloists to improvise whenever possible.

Read the interview with Martin Santangelo, director of Noche Flamenca.

Nelson Sitton Carrillo, a quintessential Spanish dancer, did fine work as an inserted flavor in carrying forth the erotic and tragic thrusts.

Read the review of Bizet's Carmen currently playing at Gala Theatre-Tivoli. Other local flamencos in this show include dancers Lou Elias, Nelson Sitton and Alisa Bernstein, guitarist Behzad Habibzai and cantaor Gerard Moreno with choreography by Jaime Coronado.

Read the Washington Post review of the Tuesday night performance by Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana at Strathmore.

3/7/2007

OK, so I haven't blogged for a few days. I decided to crank out three quickies: Japone, Tapeo and Strathmore.

3/4/2007

Added some pics from last Thursday at the Andalucía.

Guitarist percussionist Behzad Habibzai celebrates his birthday this week. Happy birthday Behzad!

Furia Flamenca's website has a new look!

3/3/2007

Just heard that Noche Flamenca will be in Richmond March 20-21.

3/2/2007

Added a blog entry about the recent slump in the restaurant business and flamenco.

3/1/2007

Blogger Don Whiteside mentioned DCFlamenco in an entry titled Flamenco resources.

Check out this blog entry about Tapeo which includes a short video clip of my flamenco show.

Tonight (Thursday) dancer Ginette Perea will be performing at the Andalucía in Rockville. Call 301-770-1880.

Tomorrow (Friday) is the registration deadline for Edwin Aparicio's Flamenco Master Course.

Just interviewed Ulrika and Mirada Flamenca last night. Stay tuned for a front page article.

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