Flamenco Guitar Workshop: JUAN CAMPALLO
Event Information
Description
Bay Area Flamenco Festival presents Flamenco Guitar Workshop with Juan Campallo
Guitarist Juan Campallo started playing for his brother and sister, dancers Rafael and Adela Campallo, performing all over Spain, touring the world from Tokyo to New York and appearing in Festivals such as the Bienal de Sevilla and Mont-de-Marsan. He has also accompanied many other acclaimed dancers such as Mercedes de Córdoba, Antonio Molina "El Choro", Pastora Galván, Juana Amaya, Antonio Canales, Javier Barón, and Merche Esmeralda. In 2007 he was awarded the prestigious “Bordón Minero” in the Festival de la Unión as most promising young guitarist and was soon asked to present a solo guitar concert in the Bienal de Sevilla and other important flamenco festivals in Spain. He has composed the music for many important productions such as El Choro's "Aviso bayles de gitanos” and Canales' “Una moneda de dos caras”. His playing balances traditional flamenco and newer forms and reflects his great technical ability as well as his emotional depth.
LEVELS:
- Level one is advanced beginner to intermediate
- Level two is intermediate to advanced flamenco guitarists
SCHEDULE: Sunday Feb. 3
- Level One 10:00am - 11:30am (1.5 hrs $45, drop in $55 @ door)
- Level Two 12 noon - 1:30pm (1.5 hrs $45, drop in $55 @ door)
VIDEOS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yEanpeQVnU
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Organizer BAY AREA FLAMENCO
Organizer of Flamenco Guitar Workshop: JUAN CAMPALLO
“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.
