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Dancing to Different Tunes

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Sometimes it’s instructive to go back to where a tradition comes from so as to really appreciate just how innovative recent developments are. Santiago Lara did that to great effect on the middle Saturday of the 2018 Festival de Jerez, … Continue reading →

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The Guitar in Time

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A guitar must be ‘in time’ with the music, particularly so with the fluid, changing rhythms of flamenco, but this is a punning title too. Only someone supremely skilled and confident in their own ability would present a set which summoned … Continue reading →

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Caballero and Patino at Sala Compania

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It’s already half way through week one of Festival 2018 by the time all our party arrive in Jerez. As is by now traditional, we head out into a rain-soaked town for our first sherry of this year’s Festival. Not … Continue reading →

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Festival Art 2018

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Spring 2018 – Jerez de la Frontera is very good at using its iconic and ancient buildings as venues for art. In the thirteenth century Alcazar and Cloisters of Santo Domingo, for example, the eighteenth century Palacio Pelmartin ( which … Continue reading →

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At Festival de Jerez 2018

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The Festival de Jerez 2018 is over now. The crowds have gone home and already the town is gearing up for Semana Santa as Easter is early this year. The boxed seating is being erected all over town and some central … Continue reading →