Free Jazz Flamenco

by Petar PLAMENOV

18 June (Saturday), Bulgaria Hall, 19:30
Free Jazz Flamenco
David Peña "Dorantes", Spain · Renaud Garcia-Fons, France · Teodosii Spasov
Bulgaria Hall
Address: Sofia, 1 Aksakov Str.
Working time: mon-sun 09:00–18:30
Phone: 02 987 76 56

Flamenco is a folk art and culture from Spain. It is particular to the province of Andalusia in Spain. Historically, it has always been the musical outlet of the poor and oppressed. It passed on by oral tradition which the individual artist uses as the basis for his own variations.
Flamenco is a tripartite art, involving singing, dance and the guitar simultaneously - as well as rhytmic punctuation (by hand-claps and other methods) that is considered an art form. There are hundreds of different types of pieces within flamenco, which have generic names such as seguiriyas, soleares, alegrías, malagueñas, fandangos, zapateado, rondeña, etc. They are defined by characteristic melodic, rhytmic, and harmonic structures; each has a characteristic mood and many are regional variants of essentially similar forms. And in this concert we can enjoy flamenco, which has become the occasion for jazz inspiration ...



Free Jazz Fla­men­co is a project of Span­ish pian­ist David Pena Dor­ant­es fea­tur­ing French dou­ble bass vir­tu­o­so Ren­aud Gar­cia-Fons and Bul­gar­i­an flut­ist The­od­os­ii Spass­ov. The trio will play in the Bul­gar­ia Hall in Sofia on 18 June. They will ush­er the audi­ence into the beau­ti­ful world of impro­vised and orig­i­nal music and will prove fla­men­co is an infi­nite­ly rich, not just tra­di­tion­al, gen­re. The three vir­tu­o­sos will per­form the com­po­si­tion We Are Water The­od­os­ii Spass­ov wrote for the foun­da­tion by the same name.  The audi­ence will be able to con­trib­ute to the cause. The co-organ­is­ers, Jazz Plus, have pledged to donate one lev from the price of every pur­chased tick­et to sup­port the mutu­al project of UNICEF, UN Chil­dren's Fund, and We Are Water foun­da­tion in the South and East regions of the Dem­o­crat­ic Repub­lic of Kon­go, Afri­ca. Activ­i­ty of great­est impor­tance there is to improve the access to drink­ing water, the hygiene, the sew­er­age sys­tem, and the chol­era con­trol in rural and semi-rural are­as.

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