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Jon Boyes -> Some interesting people turned up recently... (Mar. 15 2004 10:03:45)
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First of all, I sold some equipment recently, and the guy who bought it has worked with Paco's sax player. He's a jazz bassist from a local college and he spent some time hanging out in Spain playing with a bunch of great musicians.
Meanwhile, I managed to find to local flamenco guitar teacher (hurrah!) who has a degree in flamenco performance from the same college. This intrigued me, and I can imagine your average gitano laughing at the idea of a flamenco degree. It turns out that this college pays its students big fat bursaries to go and study with well known artists in their chosen field. This teacher spent a chunk of his course studying under Juan Martin, and a friend of the bassist above spent time with Rafael in Oxford.
What a great course, eh? Lucky buggers! Anyhow, I've exchanged emails with this teacher and hope to start lessons soon. Will report back in due course...
Finally, last but not least, a small UK Foro Flamenco meet up... A newcomer to the forum (Hi Richard) turned up at one of my gigs last week. He forced his way through a packed audience to say hello [:D] (I think there was maybe three tables in the restaurant actually booked..)
All in all a pretty good flamenco few days for this part of the world.
Hey, who need Jerez, eh? [;)]
Jon
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