The live music event I attended was a Flamenco music featured at a Pan-latin American restaurant here in Houston. The music was performed by Guillermo Serpas, a Nuevo Flamenco guitarist in Houston whose unique style combines a fusion of Spanish Guitar, Latin Jazz, and World Music. In this restaurant there are two main areas and the environment of each varies drastically. Inside if the restaurant you will find a bar and a very small stage, however this stage was not in use when I attended. And then outside of the restaurant on the patio you will find a much livelier seen where every Sunday the restaurant hosts a Pig roast which is very familiar to me coming from my Cuban culture.
I found that the attendees of the concert varied greatly in age …show more content…
The men are often shirtless and the females where dresses have less frills than those in flamenco classico. Flamenco music is strongly tied to dance however at this performance there were no professional dancers involved which may be attributed to the fact that this was flamenco nuevo and not flamenco classico. The music associated with flamenco nuevo is considered a fusion between jazz, rumba, bossa nova, Romani, Latin, Middle Eastern, rock, Cuban swing, tango, salsa and …show more content…
However Classic flamenco classic essentially intertwined with the flamenco dance. I will say it was a bit strange attending such an informal performance of flamenco because what I see portrayed as flamenco is typically flamenco classico had I not know the genre of music being shown I may not have recognized it as flamenco due to the lack of theatrical costumes and sharp polished dance. This just goes to show how important dance is to the identity of music and the people who identify with this
I found that the attendees of the concert varied greatly in age …show more content…
The men are often shirtless and the females where dresses have less frills than those in flamenco classico. Flamenco music is strongly tied to dance however at this performance there were no professional dancers involved which may be attributed to the fact that this was flamenco nuevo and not flamenco classico. The music associated with flamenco nuevo is considered a fusion between jazz, rumba, bossa nova, Romani, Latin, Middle Eastern, rock, Cuban swing, tango, salsa and …show more content…
However Classic flamenco classic essentially intertwined with the flamenco dance. I will say it was a bit strange attending such an informal performance of flamenco because what I see portrayed as flamenco is typically flamenco classico had I not know the genre of music being shown I may not have recognized it as flamenco due to the lack of theatrical costumes and sharp polished dance. This just goes to show how important dance is to the identity of music and the people who identify with this