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Jim Opfer -> RE: Palo Popularity (Jul. 29 2003 16:42:54)
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Hi Paul,
Glasgow never had any flamenco in the past, at least if it was there, I never found it. I became interested in flamenco guitar late 60's. I guess language would have been the biggest barrier to becoming engrossed in Cante, but the truth of the matter is that I just never heard any.
It's a bit different now, with good dance classes over the winter months taken by a superb dancer, Felipe de Algiceras, who is the real thing, now living in London and travelling up every fortnight. As a consequence, there's a lot of interest and activity but as your experience, it's Tangos, Tientos, Alegrias, Soleares etc. But hey! that's good!
I'm fortunate to have a small group with dancer and palmero, my dancer, Lorna, took lessons in Spain, before Filipe started comming up, although she is his number one fan and attends all the senior classes, so I'm very fortunate that we have more material to present whenever we do a show.
I've had very limited experience playing por Cante, but just enough to know that this is fantastic. To play properly, the guitarist has to know the structure of each song and antisipate the chord changes, the real difficult thing is holding back and not leading. It's an absolute must that the guitarist follows even if your juces are screaming out 'change chord now' you can't till the cante lets it happen.
Cheers
Jim.
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