CAÑIZARES FLAMENCO TRIO

Flamenco guitarist and composer Juan Manuel Canizares (Sabadell, 1966) is next to Vicente Amigo one of the most important exponents of the contemporary flamenco guitar. He worked together with Camaron de la Isla, Juan Manuel Serrat, Al Di Meola and Peter Gabriel and performed with vocalist Enrique Morente in the film Flamenco by Carlos Saura. In Morente, flamenco libertine par excellence, he found a soul mate in searching for different roads and new sounds. But it was especially his collaboration with Paco de Lucia that marked his career. Canizares is guitarist pur sang who finds his form of expression in flamenco but, above all, makes music. It is the first time that the Canizares Flamenco Trio performs in the Netherlands. FIRST DUTCH FLAMENCO BIENNALE In 1922, poet Federico Garcia Lorca and composer Manuel de Falla organized the first official Concurso de Cante Jondo flamenco contest in Granada. They wish to keep the ‘art, the cry of the Andalusian people and gypsies’ from extinction. In the year 2006 their old fear seems ungrounded. The flamenco is totally alive in Spain and many other countries. New York, London, Rome, Berlin and Paris all have their own flamenco festival and now Utrecht and Amsterdam join in. With the flamenco biennale a green light is given for a solid flamenco tradition in the Netherlands. In seven days time, with no less than seventeen performances, films, documentaries, workshops and master classes the festival shows that a new generation of flamenco artists arose, creating a new flamenco idiom coming from the old roots. The festival presents the flamenco as an open and contemporary form of art in which the tradition sounds through, inevitably, but with space for new developments.