The two dancers, two singers and flamenco guitarist playing during ArtStage 2 will put on the full experience beginning at 9:30 p.m. for the Arte Performance and juerga or jam session.
“This will be the full spectrum, not a Gipsy Kings thing. You can experience the real thing,” Golbabai said adding while people like Jesse Cook are considered flamenco, there is a lot more to it.
“So we’re pretty excited about it,” he said the performers were coming from B.C for ArtStage 2 so he decided to give them an additional show to test the waters for a bigger show a few months down the road.
“This is a smaller venue. It holds about 60 people, but if this works we might do a bigger show,” said Golbabai who moved to Alberta from Spain, three to four years ago.
The full gypsy experience includes guitar playing, dancing and singing and always ends in a massive juerga or jam session. “Juerga is Spanish for an after party jam. Gypsies always have a juerga after a performance,” Golbabai said.
“Flamenco is all about the song. It’s very introspective . The music is there to elaborate on the song and story. Everybody just improvises,” he said.
The show begins at 9:30 p.m. with the jam opening at 11 p.m. Tickets cost $20 for the entire show and $10 for the jam which will begin around 11 p.m.
— by Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
