Bay Area Flamenco presents Antonio Lizana: CANCELLED (see details below)
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Bay Area Flamenco presents:
ANTONIO LIZANA, Flamenco, Jazz and Beyond with dancer MAWI DE CADIZ
As you know, due to the current Covid-19 crisis, all public events are cancelled and we all need to shelter in place, so we are unable to present the concert that we were all looking forward to.
We will work toward finding a way to bring Lizana and his group to the Bay Area at a later date.
As an alternative, we would like to invite ticket holders to join us for an exclusive, live-streamed concert by guitarist Antonio Rey (see bio and video below) on Weds. March 25th at 2pm. The concert will feature Antonio Rey playing live from his studio in Jerez de la Frontera. Antonio is looking forward to celebrating the release of his brand new CD “Flamenco sin Fronteras” and sharing his new music with you. Only ticket-holders will be provided access to this special live-streamed private concert and the Q&A with Antonio that will take place after the concert.
As a volunteer-based arts organization, Bay Area Flamenco relies heavily on the support of donors and ticket buyers. This support is crucial to the organization’s existence, and Bay Area Flamenco, like other arts organizations, will see significant losses due to the impact of COVID-19.
We hope that you will consider making a donation at the link under "Buy Tickets." Your generosity will support Bay Area Flamenco's commitment to covering the artists' fee despite the cancellation, as Lizana and his group have already arrived in the US (east coast) and have incurred substantial expenses. Please contact us at bayareaflamenco@gmail.com if you would like to make other arrangements.
ANTONIO LIZANA Bridging the worlds of flamenco and jazz with his original music, it’s difficult to distinguish between the sax player who sings flamenco and the flamenco singer who plays the saxophone. Like flamenco legend Camaron de la Isla -a major influence for Lizana-, he was born and bred in the San Fernando neighborhood of Cadiz, Spain. Lizana has a degree in jazz studies from the Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco and has collaborated with many greats, including Chano Domínguez, Jorge Pardo, Chambao. Among his many credits is a guest appearance on Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra project "The Offense of the Drum", which won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Latin Jazz Album. He composes and arranges all of his music and also writes his own lyrics. He has created quite a buzz recently inside and outside of Spain, releasing three albums in the last 5 years, the last two --"Oriente" and "Quimeras del Mar"-- with Sony Music.
Organizer BAY AREA FLAMENCO
Organizer of Bay Area Flamenco presents Antonio Lizana: CANCELLED (see details below)
“The San Francisco Bay Area has become a major U.S. conduit for Spain’s greatest flamenco artists. Over the past decade no one has done more to build bridges between Andalusia and the Bay Area than Nina Menendez and the organization she founded and directs: Bay Area Flamenco." (KQED, The California Report)
Serving as a bridge between our local community and the flamenco community in Spain, we foster cultural exchange opportunities that allow our community of outstanding local flamenco artists and the region’s large number of student and apprentice flamenco practitioners to interact in meaningful ways with master artists and tradition-bearers from Spain's flamenco communities, creating a context for sharing cultural traditions and experiencing flamenco in a genuinely interactive and spontaneous environment.
Artistic Director Nina Menéndez’s unique curatorial vision distinguishes the work of BAF and its particular focus on grassroots flamenco from the Gitano communities of Spain. Our programming aims to increase awareness of the culture, traditions and history of the Gypsy/Romani people of Spain, and to illustrate the way music and dance traditions are key to cultural resistance, serving as a vessel for the transmission of cultural identity and oral history across the generations.
