• July 23, 2003 Flamenco nominees for 2003 Latin Grammys
• July 1, 2003 Summer Stuff
• June 11, 2003 Flamenco Discussion Groups

Flamenco nominees for 2003 Latin Grammys

Wednesday July 23, 2003 Announced just yesterday, these are the nominees for the category of "Best Flamenco Album." One of them will be announced as the winner at the 4th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, set for September 3 at Miami's American Airlines Arena, which will be broadcast live by the CBS Television Network from 9–11pm EST.

• Orillas by Juan Carmona
• El Corazón de mi Gente by Pepe de Lucía
• Teatro Real de Madrid Diego el Cigala
• Un Ramito de Locura by Carmen Linares
• Lio by José Mercé
• Sueños de Ida y Vuelta by Victor Monge Serranito
• Gerardo Núñez presenta La Nueva Escuela de Guitarra Flamenca

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Previous winners: Paris 87 by Camarón and Tomatito (2000), Ciudad de las Ideas by Vicente Amigo (2001) and Mis 70 Años Con El Cante by Antonio Núñez "El Chocolate" (2002).

Summer Stuff

Tuesday July 1, 2003 Here's a list of flamenco-related events for July, August and September summarized for your convenience:

• July 7, 14, 21 and 28 Sevillanas Workshop by Anna Menendez at the American Dance Institute (301)984-3003
• July 18 Natalia Monteleón's Arte Flamenco at Mason District Park in Annandale, VA (703)941-1730
• July 18 Flamenco workshop in Pennsylvania for children and teenagers by Tamara Sol Flys (717)227-1166
• July 19 Guitarist Torcuato Zamora and dancers at Caravela Restaurant (202)537-3200
• July 19-20 Sevillanas Workshop at the Oxford Academy (202)544-4962
• July 20 Natalia Monteleón's Arte Flamenco at the West Virginia Spanish Festival
• July 26-27 Sevillanas Workshop at the Oxford Academy (202)544-4962

• August 1 Flamenco workshop in Pennsylvania for children and teenagers by Tamara Sol Flys (717)227-1166
• August 7 Marija Temo solo performance at the Alexandria Guitar Festival (703)548-0035
• August 9-10 Sevillanas Workshop at the Oxford Academy (202)544-4962
• August 13 Marija Temo in "Flamenco Amazement" at Prince Georges County Memorial Library (301)699-3500
• August 16 Guitarist Torcuato Zamora and dancers at Caravela Restaurant (202)537-3200
• August 16-17 Sevillanas Workshop at the Oxford Academy (202)544-4962
• August 24 Natalia Monteleón's Arte Flamenco at the Delaware Hispanic Festival
• August 25-September 5 CANCELLED Dance workshop by Pepa Valdivia at the DC Dance Collective (703)734-3980
• August 29-31 Gloria de Jerez workshop at DC Dance Collective

• September 6 Guitarist Torcuato Zamora and dancers at Caravela Restaurant (202)537-3200
• September 7 Natalia Monteleón's Arte Flamenco at the Takoma Park Folk Festival
• September 7 Gipsy Kings at Nissan Pavillion
• September 13-15 Lola Greco workshop at the Oxford Academy
• Sept 18 TasteDC presents: Live Flamenco Show and Spanish Wine Dinner at Sole Restaurant.
• September 19-21Spanish Dance Theatre with guests Lola Greco, Pedro Cortes and Joaquin Escudero at the Mason Temple Theatre
• September 20 Carmen de Vicente's Requiebros Spanish Dance Group at the Gunston Theater

Here's the latest schedule of weekly tablao shows

• Mondays at Cafe Citrón 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30pm (202)530-8844
• Tuesdays at Las Tapas 7:45 and 8:45pm (703)836-4000
• Wednesdays at Toro Tapas 8:00 and 9:00pm (703)379-0502
• Thursdays at Bambule 8:00 and 9:00pm (202)966-0300, Las Tapas (703)836-4000 7:45 and 9:00pm and Andalucía 8:00pm (301)770-1880

When you call these places, don't forget to mention that you heard about it on the DC Flamenco website. Thanks and have a great summer! Discuss this topic on the message board.

Flamenco Discussion Groups

Wednesday June 11, 2003 A few years ago, the Flamenco-world.com website announced:

"...the Forum has been canceled...the use made of this space by 'forum-goers' has been more harmful than beneficial to the development of this art. Insults, discredit and a lack of respect - sheltered in anonymity - have become common at this place initially conceived for the free exchange of ideas."

The Forum mentioned above was a very popular message board for flamencos from all over the world to get together and talk about anything and everything related to flamenco. It was a good place while it lasted. Fortunately, my friend Dimitri Stamatis, an active Flamenco-World forum participant at the time, started his own website, Flamenco-Teacher.com, with its own forum. When Flamenco-World shut down its forum, many participants (primarily guitarists) migrated to Dimitri's.

Four years later, Dimitri found it necessary to shut down his forum for the very same reasons that Flamenco-World did. It's unfortunate, but I'm not too surprised. Kudos to Dimitri who did a fine job keeping the forum going for as long as it lasted. But this life cycle seems to be inherent to online flamenco discussion groups.

I was part of a flamenco listserv (email discussion group) way back in 1995 that was shut down and restarted by new administrators several times. Today it has evolved into two discussion groups which currently reside in the YahooGroups service: FlamencoDisc and Flamenco-Fenix. Some of the same people I knew from the 1995 discussion group are still actively participating today. Discuss this topic on the message board.

As of June 24,2003 the Flamenco Teacher website is up and running again. The new administrator is DC flamenco guitarist Ramin!