Just a quick entry on this laid-back holiday...

I love my Monday nights at Citron--the highlight of my flamenco-filled week. So when the show gets cancelled like it was for today (for Memorial Day), the result is a void in ma soul that I gots ta fill. Ugh. Thank God it turned out I had a rehearsal scheduled late this morning (Monday) which I almost missed cuz I overslept, but fortunately it was at DC Dance Collective which is practically down the street from my house.

Rehearsal with Furia Flamenca at DC Dance Collective. May 29, 2006 12:05pm

Guitarist Behzad Habibzai and I rehearsed with Furia Flamenca in preparation for this weekend's concert Fuerza y Pasión. Very productive session. We only had to work on one number and since I had performed with Furia about a month ago it all came back to me pretty quickly. Behzad and I work well together musically and personality-wise not to mention the fact that he also plays cajón.

Later, I got some lunch and spent some time outdoors working on my tan and read a few more chapters in Sarah Bird's The Flamenco Academy which I'm enjoying thoroughly cuz I can relate to some of the experiences of the characters as they interact with members of the fictional version of the Albuquerque flamenco community along with the typical attitude, cliques and rivalry. :-)

I love it when the guitarist character Tomás Montenegro says:
"This place is so flamenco...I love that whoever created all this knows that they're never going to get rich or famous. They're not going to get anything. They're doing it because they have to..."

As a self-appointed authenticity consultant, I'll say the author got that line right!

Not going to spoil the story. Anywayz, signing off. Ginette knew about my need for a flamenco fix today so she was kind enough to invite me to play for her children's dance class at DC Dance Collective, yay! Ciao for now.