Flamenkeando: Flamenco Meets Gypsy Jazz

Caminos Flamencos, an award-winning flamenco troupe, collaborates with members of gypsy jazz group Barrio Manouche to present an eclectic evening of flamenco, jazz manouche, and Latin vibes. Seven artists improvise and explore between their musical worlds to create a blend of sounds rooted in flamenco dance and music, yet open in a free-style form much like a chamber jazz ensemble.
 
FEATURING:
Jason “El Rubio” McGuire – acoustic guitar
Felix de Lola – vocals
Javi Jimenez – guitar
Luis Jimenez – percussion
Yaelisa – flamenco dance
Fanny Ara – flamenco dance
Marina Elana – flamenco dance
 
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Yaelisa, renowned flamenco choreographer and artistic director of dance company Caminos Flamencos, has performed with many of Spain’s finest artists, including Alejandro Granados, Antonio “El Pipa,” Manuel and Antonio Malena, Domingo Ortega, Enrique “El Extremeno,” Yeye de Cádiz, Mateo Soleá, El Junco, Juan Ogalla, Geronimo, Felipe Maya, and many more. Her choreography has been commissioned by several modern dance companies such as John Malashock & Company, Rose Polsky, and Collage Dance Theatre. In 1995, she was one of 11 international choreographers in Spain—and the only American choreographer chosen among them—invited to present her choreography at the prestigious Certámen de Coreografía in Madrid. Internationally recognized as a master teacher, Yaelisa has developed a teaching style that emphasizes cultural understanding and knowledge of the cante. In 1993, she was the recipient of an Emmy Award for Choreography for the PBS program Desde Cádiz a Sevilla, as well as an NEA Choreography Fellowship. In 2005, Yaelisa and Caminos Flamencos received an Isadora Duncan Dance Award in the category of “Best Company Performance,” and in 2006, she was given the Profiles in Excellence Hispanic Leadership Award by ABC-7. Yaelisa served as choreographer and consultant on a production of Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding for the Shotgun Players theater company in 2007. In 2014, she choreographed San Francisco Opera’s production of La Traviata, and in 2015, her production of Nuevos Tendencias was nominated for two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. In recent years, Yaelisa and her company have worked in film, music video, and television, and as guest artists with Pacific Symphony and California Symphony.
 She is also the co-founder and artistic director of the New World Flamenco Festival held at Irvine Barclay Theater in Irvine, California.

Jason “El Rubio” McGuire began playing guitar at the age of nine. He received formal training in Dallas, Texas, from the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, where he studied jazz and classical guitar, as well as theory and composition. While in school, he received DownBeat Magazine’s prestigious Dee Bee Award in the category of “Instrumental Jazz Soloist.” He began performing as a flamenco guitarist in New York, playing alongside the legendary Pedro Cortes Jr. In 1995, McGuire recorded with famed jazz manouche guitarist Carlos Heredia on his album, Gypsy Flamenco, and released a recording of his own composition, Distancias, in 2005. He has accompanied and collaborated with many great artists, including Savion Glover, Yaelisa, Alejandro Granados, Andres Peña, Antonio El Pipa, Enrique El Extremeño, Carmela Greco, José Cortés, Manuel and Antonio Malena, among others. McGuire has been awarded a California Arts Council Music Fellowship and has been nominated three times for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award. He is also an accomplished recording engineer and producer, sharing credits with David Schiffman (Nine Inch Nails, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash) on the album What’s in Your Mind (Powerslave Records) from the band Zeromind. McGuire currently serves as a music director for both Caminos Flamencos and The New World Flamenco Festival. In 2015, he formed his own trio, Terceto Kali.

 
Time: 6:30pm doors / 7:00pm show
Admission: $20-25 sliding scale. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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