Miguelito and Emily Mazzotti at Tapeo. May 3, 2008 7:59pm (photo by Chris Mazzotti)

It's about 3:00am on Monday as I type these words. Yeah, it's true. This past Saturday was the last flamenco show at Tapeo which coincidentally was the two year anniversary of our show there. I first performed at Tapeo on May 3, 2006 with dancers Ginette Perea and María.

The reason for canceling the show is that starting next week Tapeo the restaurant is changing its menu to American cuisine and its name to something new. So unfortunately Tapeo is also gone along with the flamenco. Nothing personal—just the way it goes in the restaurant biz.

The least I could've wished for my last night performing here was beautiful warm weather, so we could perform outside—the shows in the patio are so much more enjoyable for us performers and the audience alike. According to my iPhone-toting friends, the temperature was 74F and despite the clouds, there was no rain.

The dancer for the evening was Emily Mazzotti. Despite it being our last time to present flamenco here, we were still very inspired. And why not? We were outdoors performing underneath the stars. And of course it helped tremendously that we had quite a few of our loyal fans in the audience cheering us on. Not to mention the many children that enjoyed our show and even participated!

When I introduced myself and Emily to our audience, I also took a moment to acknowledge our friends and supporters. Although normally it's not really cool to promote my other gigs at other competing restaurants and clubs, being that it was our last time here, I decided to go ahead and do it anyway for the sake of our fans who might want to follow us elsewhere.

Don't worry. I'm not get all mushy about our last show. :-) Just enjoy these final pics of Tapeo one last time and wish me luck as I go about my search for a new Saturday night gig.

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Three of our devoted fans: Rosie, Rachel and Serenity. March 15, 2008 8:48pm

It's 3:01am on Thursday as I type these words. And yeah, it's my second blog entry in two hours, if you can believe that! Besides, I have a backlog of photos to catch up on and it's just plain and simple courtesy to publish pics that were taken by my volunteer photographers. It's the least I can do for all their hard work. If it wasn't for them, how else would I get photos of my shows?

Which brings me to another topic: our fans and supporters. I know what you're thinking: "Miguelito, you just published the above pic, because the girls are pretty." Haha. No, they really are our devoted fans, and the fact that they happen to be very beautiful too is just an added bonus. Rachel and Serenity, in particular, come to my show at Tapeo practically every single week! Rosie, who's quite busy with school, comes out when she can, but lately has been coming to Tapeo and some of my other shows at other venues more often than before.

More than six or seven years ago, one of my regular readers complained that I was publishing pics of the performers and none of the people who came out to see the show. She was right though. But it's not like it never crossed my mind to take pics of people in the audience. It just that it was always a pain in the butt getting permission from individuals for them to appear in pics on my website. But I gave in and started taking pics of our fans and supporters and published them. And yeah it was a pain to always ask for permission, but c'mon my website is not the kind that people should be ashamed of appearing on.

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Ginette Perea dancing Sevillanas at Tapeo. March 1, 2008 8:58pm (photo by Chris Kobar)

It's 6:18am on Sunday as I type these words. Haven't been to bed yet--my body clock is all messed up again. Just got around to transferring photo files from my camera to my Mac and was very impressed with the pics that my friend Chris Kobar took. I think you'll be impressed too. Take a look...

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Ginette dancing soleá at Tapeo. February 16, 2008 9:15pm (photo by Jani)

It's 5:44pm on Monday as I type these words. Been a busy day, but I still wanted to squeeze in a quick blog entry with some random pics from Saturday night--a very enjoyable night by the way. Besides my usual Saturday night flamenco show at Tapeo (where Ginette was the dancer for the evening and in the words of one audience member: "Gin rocked the house!"), I helped put together a birthday party for my flamenco buddies Jason Vera y Aragón and Richard Marlow.

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