DC Feria de Sevilla: first batch o' pics. May 20, 2007
Dancers Genoveva and Ginette Perea at the DC Feria de Sevilla. May 20, 2007 1:33pm
It's 12:49pm on Monday. My original plan was to work on the Feria pics as soon as I got home. But I got home around 11:00pm and ended up going straight to bed instead.
For those of you new in town, the DC Feria is the local flamenco community's biggest event. It features performances all afternoon by local flamenco companies (yours truly usually has the privilege of playing for most of them) on an outdoor stage and is attended by hundreds of people presumably with an interest in Spanish culture. In addition, there are casetas (kiosks) sponsored by different local Spanish restaurants selling samples of their menu. Plus there are a few places where they have non-stop music and dance floor if you want to get your Sevillanas fix. Congrats to Centro Español de Washington for organizing this popular event year after year. This was their 17th!
Anywayz, Here's the first of several batches of random pics from Sunday's Feria de Sevilla at Strathmore. Enjoy!
My guitar student Matteo and yours truly. May 20, 2007 1:35pm
I got to the Feria late on account of my sleeping in late. Went to a couple of parties Saturday night (celebrated Ginette's birthday too!) so I needed some rest. Anywayz, when we got to the Feria, Mariya's group had already finished (sorry Mariya!). Spent the first 45 minutes or so walking around with Ginette, her mom and my guitar student Matteo.
Ginette, Miguelito and Raquelita. May 20, 2007 1:46pm
Raquelita and little friend dancing Sevillanas. May 20, 2007 1:48pm
Paco de Málaga and Cindy. May 20, 2007 1:57pm
Daniela and Isabelita. May 20, 2007 2:06pm
As expected saw lots of people that I hadn't seen in awhile and got caught up in lots of conversations. Meanwhile I lost track of time and ended up missing half of Natalia Monteleón's Arte Flamenco's show. Ugh.
I was kinda hoping to have joined them onstage with my guitar but at least this time around I was able to sit in the audience for a change and enjoy the show and take a few pics.
Javier, Quique and Carlton. May 20, 2007 2:15pm
Claudia. May 20, 2007 2:18pm
Sarah. May 20, 2007 2:19pm
Midori. May 20, 2007 2:18pm
Carlton and Midor. May 20, 2007 2:18pm
Quique and Julie. May 20, 2007 2:19pm
Sarah. May 20, 2007 2:19pm
Midori. May 20, 2007 2:22pm
Julie. May 20, 2007 2:22pm
Aleksey and Genevieve. May 20, 2007 2:33pm
Carlton and Claudia. May 20, 2007 2:34pm
For more information about Natalia Monteleón's Arte Flamenco visit their website.
That's it for now. Got personal errands to take care of this afternoon. But I'll continue to add more batches of Feria pics everyday this week so stay tuned. In the meantime, checkout the pics from last year's Feria.
As for tonight (Monday) I'll be performing at Cafe Citron with Gerard Moreno and Sara Jerez (subject to last-minute changes). One of my friends is bringing a group of dancers so it should be blast. Please come and let's keep the Feria buzz going a little longer.
Ciao!
P.S. a personal little milestone: today's blog entry is my 300th since I started using this blog software in January 2006. Of course I had been blogging a few years before that but painstakingly did all the HTML coding the old skool way: by hand. Hurray for technology!
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Comments
Muchas felicitaciones Miguelito! God bless your talent!
Posted by: Esteban Falcon | June 5, 2007 4:11 PM