Join us on October 14th at 5:00 PM CDT at the New Orleans Jazz Museum as we celebrate New Orleans music and Hispanic Heritage Month with the Old Spanish Flamenco Night in New Orleans.
The New Orleans Jazz Museum presents the Hispanic Heritage Month Musical Celebration: starting Friday, September 16 through Friday, October 14, you can enjoy weekly live performances as we honor Hispanic Heritage Month.
Enjoy jazz music from home with the New Orleans Jazz Museum! Join the Jazz Museum online for our daily Live-Stream Concert Series, in which dynamic jazz musicians perform live from the Jazz Museum! Tune in at 2 pm on facebook.com/nolajazzmuseum/live to watch for free.
Flamenco “Tablao” is a place where Flamenco shows are performed, a word popularized in the early 20th century, which takes place in the Cafés Cantantes of Spain. Through the centuries, New Orleans has hosted similar venues during the Spanish era.
Teacher, mentor, spirited ‘Guia’ de Flamenco, an icon of New Orleans, Teresa Torkanowsky, hosted Tablao in the French Quarter called Chateau Flamenco late last century. Tonight her spirit and those of Old Spanish New Orleans will come alive as our Flamenco artists return to the city they love.
Artists Vicente Griego, Cristian Puig, Carlos Menchaca, and Marilia Quevedo, will be performing devotion through dancing, singing, and guitar reviving the spirits that have always been here.
Peña La Pepa
Mamacita Social Aid Pleasure Club, Inc, and its home Peña La Pepa of New Orleans is a (501c3) non-profit foundation dedicated to research, history, presentation, and education of Spanish art and its roots in New Orleans. The foundation’s mission is to integrate into New Orleans Culture an appreciation and continuum of the art of Flamenco through performance and education programming by high-quality Flamenco artists.
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Vicente Griego (Singer)
Vicente “El Cartucho” Griego from Dixon/Embudo, NM, Vicente has devoted his life to the study of Cante Flamenco, the art of flamenco singing. In 1992, Vicente began touring the US, Canada, and Latin America with the Jose Greco II Flamenco Dance Company, where he was mentored by Caño Roto singer, Alfonso Gabarri, “El Veneno” of Madrid, Spain. He sings and teaches for the National Institute of Flamenco and sings year-round with Yjastros. Vicente remains a pupil of renowned flamenco artist Chuscales from Granada. Vicente “El Cartucho” Griego is striking for his deep, sonorous wails that seem to come from a cavern, someplace deep within his soul.”- Anna Poplawska, Chicago Artist’s News
Cristian Puig (Guitarist, Composer, & Singer)
Cristian Puig is a flamenco guitarist, composer, and singer with Gypsy roots in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, and a string of artistic successes in film, in the recording studio, and live on stage. He played the role of guitarist and singer “Joaquin” in the Alliance Theatre’s 2013 production of Zorro, and he has worked in films, such as A Late Quartet, for which he composed flamenco music for the soundtrack. He performs as a flamenco singer and guitarist across the United States of America and with his flamenco trio Puig-Sanchez-Moreno in his hometown of New York.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cristian Puig is the son of flamenco singer Gloria Monreal and Flamenco guitarist Pablo Puig. As a teenager, Cristian began his studies in classical guitar at the conservatory of Manuel de Falla as well as flamenco guitar with his father. Soon he took classes in flamenco guitar with Quique de Cordoba and furthered his studies in jazz, bossa nova and contemporary music. In 1990, he formed and toured South America with his group Rabat, fusing jazz, bossa nova and flamenco. Cristian released the CD Entre Cuerdas featuring flamenco-jazz fusion, as well as another entitled Inflam Project, which crosses Indian and flamenco styles.
Carlos Menchaca (Dancer)
Carlos Menchaca is known in Flamenco circles across the country for his energetic, highly physical interpretation of rhythm and movement. He works full-time as a soloist with Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company under the direction of Joaquin Encinias and with Flamenco Aparicio in Washington, D.C., which is directed by Edwin Aparicio. He has performed professionally since age 16, and in recent years performed with Noche Flamenca, led by Martín Santangelo. He also performs with Flamenco companies across the U.S.A., including La Juerga Flamenco Ensemble, a Flamenco collective led by Illeana Gomez and Alejandro Pais in Albuquerque, N.M., Flamenco Denver, under the direction of Sevillana María Vazquez, and collaborations arranged by Berdolé.
Menchaca currently teaches and choreographs for the Conservatory of Flamenco Arts in Albuquerque, N.M., and is part of the adjunct dance faculty for the charter school, Tierra Adentro: The New Mexico School for Academics, Art, and Artesania. His tenacity on stage is the result of a lifetime of dance and a long dedication to Flamenco. He began studying dance at the age of 10 under the instruction of his aunt, accomplished director and dancer, Belinda Menchaca. His training included Mexican Folkloric Dance, Spanish Classical and Ballet, as well as Flamenco performance and training with some of the most influential artists in the field via the University of New Mexico.
Marilia Quevedo (Dancer)
Marilia Quevedo has enjoyed a career as a professional flamenco dancer, after training with the masters of the art form in Spain and across South America. In her home of Argentina and nearby Uruguay, she has performed for the past two decades in renowned flamenco tablaos and theaters, in major universities, and at Instituto Ibero, dedicated to the arts of Spain in the Americas. She currently resides near Miami and performs regularly across the U.S.A.
