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henrym3483 -> Curso Flamenco Gerardo Nunez y Carmen Cortes 2018 (Jul. 17 2018 14:09:44)
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Back from Jerez yesterday, and man was it a bummer of an ending from what was an absolutely epic week of Flamenco classes and shows. Ryanair ended up breaking my guitar case in several places and the case is basically worthless with out a handle/strap. It got cracked, dinged up something awful but heh thats life.
Anyway, it was great to meet up with old friends and to make some new ones. This year got to do Gerardo's class and Antonio Carrions accompaniment class.
There was a tonne of material shown in both classes and I got some good guidance from Antonio where to work on my cante accompaniment (besides the occasional fuera de compas). There was only about 6 of us in Antonio's class and we got almost personal attention.
The final day, we managed to attempt to accompany Antonio, who is a literal living encyclopedia of cante, for a number of different Palo's and got good feedback what to work on. In addition, he covered a number of different falseta's from each region from moron, lebrija, jerez etc for each Palo.
Gerardos classes still remained quite big with at least 20-25 in both the advanced and intermediate courses. Gerardo showed a lot of useful material and was very open to requests on material from his repertoire from all of us, and graciously did some material from the Buleria Tarifa which I requested.
We also had the benevolent and friendly guitar luminary Adam del Monte at the curso and he played an amazing solea during the guitarist's night. Guitar night showed showed off some of the amazing current and emerging talent. One young lad Marco, played buleriando to a tee and blew the crowd away.
As regards the shows each night, I was more than delighted to see some the artists perform and have a chat later (even got a few cd's signed)
We saw Rafael Riqueni live, in the small setting of Posada de Palacio Hotel along with the brilliant young guitarist Alvaro Martinete (keep an eye out for this lad, 22 and a monster picado).
We got to see Rycardo Moreno, Cepillo and Jorge Pardo perform Live in Bodega La Gitana and the very same night we got to hear Jesus Mendez accompanied by Manuel Valencia with a fin de fiesta on the patio later for the alumnos del curso (I got up myself and did a patada por buleria for the laugh [:D] ).
Midweek at Bodegon de Arte "A Contratiempo" run by the talented and gracious Bailaora Raquel Villegas Gomez, we saw the CD launch of Mari Pena accompanied by the guitarist Antonio Moya (i'm a great admirer of his style and got to say hello afterwards) . We were treated to a viaje de cante from Lebrija and Utrera and the fin de fiesta was awesome, with a lot of graceful gitano style dancing from friends and supporters of Mari Pena.
At the end of week, got to take in a show at Contratiempo seeing Nino Manuel al toque, Raquel Villegas and Noelia Vicente Vilches al Baile and Ana Gomez al Cante.
The friday night of the curso, is the students night, and as always getting to show off a brief glimpse of some of the ideas taught and shown during the week, accompanied and supported by their teachers including Gerardo (toque), Jorge Pardo (improv and flamenco) , Carmen Cortes (Dance), Cepillo (percussion) and David Carpio (Cante). A lot of talent on display, and as in previous years, many attendees of the Curso are people to watch out for as professionals in the future.
For more info and pics of the Curso, check out the facebook, instagram pages, too many to post here. NB. this post is just a brief overview, it would be impossible to write down all that happened at the curso this week, suffice to say it was an incredible experience.
http://www.cursoflamenco.com/en/
https://www.facebook.com/cursoflamencosanlucar/
https://www.facebook.com/bodegon.acontratiempo
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