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MauiFlamenco
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Joined: Dec. 8 2009
From: Maui Hawaii
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First time to Spain, flamenco enthus...
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I'm traveling to Spain, my cities of visitation are going to be Sevilla, Cadiz, Jerez. Unless you have a better input. I have no idea of where to stay, or where I should go. Been studying flamenco for 9 years as a passion, and have very little exposure to real flamenco other than YouTube and many books,DVDs , and Skype lessons from the mainland. I live on Maui, and there is no flamenco here. I need to know where to stay. Right now, I'm thinking 5 days in each place. Your thoughts? My wife is going with me, so enjoying our stay is just as important as Flamenco guitar lessons. Please any input would be great. If you have any landmarks of where We should stay, I welcome your feedback.
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Date Apr. 20 2014 3:14:04
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mezzo
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RE: First time to Spain, flamenco en... (in reply to MauiFlamenco)
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It depends on what you're looking for. If you want to see flamenco shows every nights of the week, then go to Sevilla and stay there all your trip. I think at the end it gonna be expensive, but if exposure to gig is what you want, then you will find it there 7/7 days. Not all of them at the same level, but it's good to be able to enjoy different level of artists. That way you could find out what you like or dislike most. I think the prob in other city like Jerez or Cadiz is that there's not alot of gig during the week. All happen during (thursday) friday-saturday. So you could see shows but on a minor scale then in Sevilla. What you should do is have a look to a ressource called guiaflama. It's a monthly agenda sort of thing, it's in paper but I think it's also available on the net. Have a look at it, and see the scedule. City by city. You would have an idea of what happen, where and when. Then made your plan based on this. e.g Tomatito is playing in Almeria that day, then take the bus and go to see him and came back to your city. See if there are Pena festival organized here and there in small town around, then take the bus... If you want to visit cities, then the logic should be a little different.
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