Below you can see something Esther was teaching us in bulerías class last week on the Flamenco Tour to Jerez.
You will love it.
Here is the last letra Momo Moneo sings for her:
International Flamenco Day is November 16th.
What will you do to celebrate?
Here are ten ideas:
Last week we went to Gran Teatro Falla in Cádiz to see Marco Flores’s latest production, Sota, Caballo y Reina.
The show was incredible, and seeing it from the front row made the experience absolutely magical.
Here’s a soleá José Valencia sang:
Here’s a letra we heard Jesús Méndez sing live here in Jerez last night.
Malagueña del Mellizo
Toda la nochecita me llevo
Cabales
Ábrase la tierra
que me quiero morir
que pa vivir como yo estoy viviendo
prefiero morir
Caña
Hasta las personas reales
viene la muerte y se lleva
Y conmigo no ha podido
cuando la llamo de veras
Soleá
Te quise sin darme cuenta
y ahora que olvidarte quiero
como bien te camelo…
This was my very first performance with Ricardo, which wasn’t supposed to have happened.
It was March of 2010.
Ricardo López was coming to Portland to give workshops...
Below find another version of this letra interpreted by Platero de Alcalá.
Wow!
Me voy pa’l castillo
a ver si me echan las cartas,
Alegrías de Córdoba
Le regalé flores y flores
y me abrió su jardín
ya sé que estos amores
nunca tendrán fin
Rhythm,
You either have it or you don’t.
Can we please bust this myth right now?
Because rhythm can be learned.
How well do you understand the structure of bulerías?
Below you’ll find a priceless video from this year’s Fiesta de la Bulería in Jerez.
I’ll deconstruct a couple of the dances and let you do the rest.
Alegrías de Córdoba
La única que me quiere
es mi Carmela
Unas veces me da dolor
y otras me ahoga la pena
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Try this fifteen minute look
Listen to Samuel Serrano sing today’s letra live in the video below.
Alegrías
El cielo se me nubló
las calles se me oscurecieron…
You are going to LOVE today’s video of Chano Lobato.
It begins in the dressing room where he sings alegrías accompanied by his musicians. It then follows them out to the performance itself…
Watch and listen to Montse Cortés por alegrías in today’s video.
Here’s one of the letras she sings…
Alegrías de Córdoba
Me voy pa’ los callejones
a ver si me echan las cartas…
