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Paco de Lucia Touring Dates

Hi guys just to let you know PDL performances in USA and Canada

Date Venue City State Country

01/20/04 MONDAVI CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DAVIS CA USA
01/21/04 VAN DUZER THEATER ARCATA CA USA
01/23/04 LAXSON AUDITORIUM - CAL STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO CHICO CA USA
01/24/04 ZELLERBACH AUDITORIUM AT UC BERKELEY BERKELEY CA USA
01/25/04 ZELLERBACH AUDITORIUM AT UC BERKELEY BERKELEY CA USA
01/26/04 SANTA CRUZ CIVIC AUDITORIUM SANTA CRUZ CA USA
01/29/04 ROYCE HALL - UCLA CENTER FOR THE ARTS LOS ANGELES CA USA
01/30/04 ROYCE HALL - UCLA CENTER FOR THE ARTS LOS ANGELES CA USA
01/31/04 CALIFORNIA CENTER ESCONDIDO ESCONDIDO CA USA
02/03/04 POPEJOY HALL - UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ALBUQUERQUE NM USA
02/04/04 CENTENNIAL HALL TUCSON AZ USA
02/08/04 WINSPEAR CENTRE EDMONTON AB CANADA
02/10/04 ORPHEUM THEATER VANCOUVER BC CANADA
02/12/04 MASSEY HALL TORONTO ON CANADA
02/13/04 WILFRID PELLETIER HALL MONTREAL QU CANADA
02/14/04 ORPHEUM THEATER BOSTON MA USA
02/18/04 BASS PERFORMANCE HALL FT. WORTH TX USA
02/19/04 GUSMAN THEATRE MIAMI BEACH FL USA
02/21/04 RIALTO THEATER ATLANTA GA USA
02/22/04 PAGE AUDITORIUM DURHAM NC USA
02/24/04 WARNER THEATER WASHINGTON DC USA
02/26/04 MCCARTER THEATER PRINCETON NJ USA
02/27/04 BEACON THEATRE NEW YORK NY USA
02/28/04 NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER NEWARK NJ USA
02/29/04 VERIZON HALL - KIMMEL CENTER PHILADELPHIA PA USA

Saludos a Todos!!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 16 2003 21:44:59

sbarnard

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RE: Paco de Lucia Touring Dates (in reply to Guest)

What? No Chicago?!?

Oh well, guess I'll have to take a trip to NY in Feburary.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 17 2003 13:23:24

Guest

RE: Paco de Lucia Touring Dates (in reply to Guest)

Can't believe he's going to Tucson and not stopping in Phoenix.

Anyone have info on ticketing?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 18 2003 14:19:29

Miguel de Maria

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Someone else from Phoenix? I can´t see your name, Guest.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 19 2003 10:15:46

Michael

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RE: Paco de Lucia Touring Dates (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

Hi Michael

I'm assuming the reason for your not seeing my name on my post is because I'm still very much in the learning phase of using this new forum. As I said in another post, "I'm not very computer literate".

But... back to your question.... yes, my wife and I moved here to Phoenix two years ago this month. Still in the learning phase of finding our way around but so far we're loving it.

I followed some of your posts over at "Hangover". Are you still in Spain and how are the lessons going? I've got to hand it to you. What you are doing is quite an undertaking and I know I don't stand alone when I say, "It's very impressive!"

Continued good luck to you.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 19 2003 12:58:00

Guest

RE: Paco de Lucia Touring Dates (in reply to Michael)

See you found the right flag. You last post didn't carry your name because you weren't logged in.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 19 2003 13:16:54

Escribano

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Just as I wasn't in my reply

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 19 2003 13:18:01

Michael

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RE: Paco de Lucia Touring Dates (in reply to Guest)

I'm catching on slowly but surly. Now if I can only do the same with the guitar.

As for the flag, that was quite a stroke of luck wouldn't you say. I'm quite happy with that.

Simon.... I've got to hand it to you. You've done a great job with our new home. Very cozy.

Tah mate. (for those of you not totaly familiar with some of our English slang, it means: Thanks pal.)

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 19 2003 23:27:39

Miguel de Maria

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RE: Paco de Lucia Touring Dates (in reply to Guest)

Hi Michael. Yes, what I´m doing in Sevilla is wonderful, I feel very priviledged to be able to do this, and things I am learning and seeing will certainly inform the rest of my musical career.

Lessons are very good. School is structured like this, at 9 am, there is an Introduction to Flamenco course, given in Spanish, which talks about the history of flamenco and the characteristics of the palos. This class, which is of course only peripherally of interest to a guitar player, is attended, well, rather sporadically. From a begining membership of 20, we have declined to about 8. I have only missed one class, though...

Then we go to the first teacher, either Tino van der Smann or Miguel Angel Cortes, depending on the week. Both are heavily into giving us exercises, for arpeggio, tremolo, and picado. Tino is particular about hand position and about especially relaxing the hand as much as possible. Tino also is reintroducing us to the palos such as Alegrias, Tangos, and Siguriyas by giving us his way of strumming them and some falsetas.

After this 2 hour class, we go in for 2 hours with Eduardo Rebollar. Eduardo is one of Chocolate´s main accompaniasts! Quite amazing... he´s a very fun-loving guy, great sense of humor, although perhaps his classes arent quite as productive as the other group. He has taught us many falsetas, and also given us lots of exercises. I will have enough etudes to last me for months, for sure. Next week, Paco Taranto will come into our class and we´ll start learning how to accompany por fandangos.

The pace of class is very fast, learning is done in the classic, do as I do approach. This is tough for me, a classical book learner. But I have applied myself and now am catching on pretty quickly. Still, there´s simply no time to get close to mastering the heaps (montones) of material they load on us. A recorder is essential for later reference. Sometimes my head feels like a sponge full of water, and it won´t absorb any more. I learn a lick and then 10 seconds it´s gone.

Just as good as class itself is Sevilla itself. I have seen about 20 flamenco shows in the 5 weeks I have been in spain. For 5€ students of the Fundacion can see a show at the Cafe Sol Cantante, where former students of the Fundacion and others perform, dance guitar, and voice. I have been to the festival at Moguer and seen Chocolate adn Canales and others, and on Tuesday I´m going to Malaga to another festival. These festivals are crazy events that start at 12 and end at 5 in the morning!

I have become somewhat obsessive and whenever I watch flamenco, it´s important to me to understand the palos and the rhythm. And then I count along, usually the whole way. This practice in counting has really helped my compas!

So I have taken about 2.5 weeks of lessons. Yes, I´ve improved a lot, but I am coming to understand that the secret to getting good is...well, there´s no secret, you just have to work really, really hard. The guys that are good practice 3,4,5 hours a day, that´s just the way it works. In a way, a kind of forbidding thing, but also, somewhat reassuring. You mean I dont have to be born a great guitar player, I can just work hard and get good? I like that.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 20 2003 12:14:24

Michael

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RE: Paco de Lucia Touring Dates (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

Michael,

Your brain has got to be absolutly swamped but what an incredible experience.

You may feel as though you are forgetting material 10 seconds after you've learned it but the mind has a strange way of retaining things we feel we have lost but it's definitely wise that you're recording your lessons.

When you come back to Phoenix you're going to be a different person. You may feel like you had so much thrown at you that you don't remember a thing you were taught but when your friends ask you to sit down and play, they'll be listening to a totally different musician. You as well as your playing will have seasoned and they'll recognize it right away.

So where are you going to be entertaining when you come back to AZ? I'll want to get a front row seat!!!

My wife and I have a friend coming in from out of town for a few days. We'll probably take her to Pepin's on Saturday. There used to be a great place on 44th Street just north of Camelback called Alto's but it closed. It was my wife's and my favorite place to go. Have you been there before? Being new to a city can be difficult at times, it takes a long time to find out where the really good places are. I won't burden you with it now, but when you get back from your trip and things start to settle down for you a bit, maybe you can e-mail me a list of other places you feel are good.

In the mean time, enjoy your stay in Spain. Continue to keep us all posted on your lessons and your visits to the penas as well. It's really been fun following your posts, sort of like reading a diary.

Regards,
Michael

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 20 2003 20:35:07

Miguel de Maria

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Michael, I used to bartend and wait tables at Altos, although it´s been some years now! Perhaps we´ve met. By working there, with those rumberos Mike and Kurt playing, is how I got into this flamenco mess in the first place. My first gig was when my group covered for them when they went to Sevilla.

For places to go, there´s nothing like the old Altos. I don´t care for Pepin´s myself, I would rather go to the Hyatt, where Gaetano and his group Mosaico plays commercial flamenco stuff with a full band. There is the remains of the new Altos on Ray and 48th st, now called Bistro Madrid, where Mike and Kurt now play, and Barrio Cafe on 16th st and south of Indian School. At those last two places you might catch me filling in for them once in awhile!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 24 2003 16:48:32

Michael

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RE: Paco de Lucia Touring Dates (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

Michael, What a way to get introduced to this type of music. Alto's definitely was the best! You really took it serious when you got involved with the guitar, especially now, with what you are undertaking. I'm wondering now if we've heard you play and if we've met before. This can be a very small world that we live in sometimes.

BTW...Thanks a million for responding so quickly to my post. I think my wife and I will take our friend to the Hyatt after all. I heard them play two years ago in Sedona. They were doing an afternoon gig at Telaquepaqui and they not only sounded good but they entertained the audience very well.

Out of curiosity, Metro Phoenix is huge, what part of the city are you living in? We used to live just around the corner from the old Altos on 44th. We now live just off 75th Ave north of Bell in Arrowhead. It's quiet, but at the end of a hectic day, it's nice to be quiet.

Enjoy your lessons and continue to keep us posted.

Sincerely,
Michael

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 25 2003 2:22:50

Miguel de Maria

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Michael, I live just south of Thomas and 60th st, in a lovely ranch house with my girlfriend. If you want to get a look at me, you can go to the old flamencoforum hangover web site, where I have a picture posted. When you go to the Hyatt say Hola from Sevilla to Monty Perrault, who was my teacher for about 6 months.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 25 2003 13:27:14

Michael

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RE: Paco de Lucia Touring Dates (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

Michael, Hey you handsome devil.... and nice hair by the way. On a good hair day, I'm lucky to have about 17% of what you've got.

Thanks again for the info. Went by the Hyatt but Mosaic is vacationing until the end of July. So when we go back there in August, we'll definitely tell them "Hello" from Spain for you.

60th Street & Thomas! Man, what a great location, I love "Old Town". It's not only quaint but you're in the heart of everything. Don't get me wrong, I love where I'm living but it takes a helicopter ride to get anywhere.

Thanks again for the info. Enjoy your guitar studies and don't forget to keep all of us homebodies posted.

Regards,
Michael

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 27 2003 23:40:37