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Cervantes Institute

  • February 23, 2024
  • 7:00 PM
  • 211-215 E 49th St, New York
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Pure Flamenco Concert

The concert “Puro Flamenco” brings together three essential figures of the purest flamenco in an unprecedented encounter. Pepe Habichuela, Rafael Riqueni and Carmen Linares offer a repertoire of the best in their careers, with a surprising grand finale.

Puro Flamenco Concert - 23 FEB Instituto Cervantes – Paco de Lucía Legacy

The concert “Puro Flamenco” brings together three essential figures of the purest flamenco in an unprecedented encounter. Pepe Habichuela, Rafael Riqueni and Carmen Linares offer a repertoire of the best in their careers, with a surprising grand finale.

Event Type: MusicEvent

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Performer Name: PEPE HABICHUELA / RAFAEL RIQUENI / CARMEN LINARES

Start Date: 2024-02-23 19:00

End Date: 2024-02-23 23:00

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Entry Price: 30

Currency: USD

Availability: SoldOut

Availability Starts: 2024-02-23T19:00:00

Editor's Rating:
5

Artists

Pepe Habichuela / Rafael Riqueni / Carmen Linares

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Rafael Riqueni
Rafael Riqueni

Rafael Riqueni, flamenco guitar

Rafael Riqueni del Canto was born on Fabié, a street in the Triana neighborhood of Seville.  He is considered one of the biggest names or “Maestros” in flamenco guitar history. At age fourteen, he won two prominent national awards for flamenco guitar in Spain. At age eleven, he started to play with Niño Ricardo and discovered Paco de Lucía, which made him finally decide to pursue a music career. His first teacher was Manolo Carmona, and then he became a student of Manolo Sanlúcar. Rafael Riqueni’s music takes flamenco as a basis, plus classical music influences, among other contemporary styles, a process accessible to identify his musicianship.

Pepe Habichuela
Pepe Habichuela

Pepe Habichuela, flamenco guitar

Pepe Habichuela belongs to one of the great flamenco dynasties, the Habichuelas, and to the generation of Paco de Lucía, Camarón de la Isla, Enrique Morente, Manolo Sanlúcar… which has opened the way for the current generation of young flamencos and whose work has brought about the enormous popularity that this art form enjoys nowadays. From Pepe’s trajectory, it is possible to perceive the surprising evolution of flamenco in the last few years. He was the first flamenco artist to pass on his knowledge to his sons and nephews, forming the Ketama band, Raimundo Amador, and José Soto “Sorderita.” He took his first professional steps in the Sacromonte caves, Granada, and then moved to the Madrid tablaos. At that time, he accompanied Pepe Marchena and Juanito Valderrama. However, his close cooperation with Enrique Morente in the seventies marked a change in direction for his career, and together, they discovered a new world of harmonies that found expression in two historical works, Despegando and Homenaje a D. Antonio Chacón. As a solo artist, his first record, A Mandela, was distributed worldwide, and his second CD, Habichuela en Rama (1997), was recorded with the cooperation of his son, José Miguel Carmona (Ketama). Apart from that, Pepe Habichuela also played in a duet with the American trumpeter Don Cherry, a veritable legend of free jazz and one of the first theoreticians of fusion. The last chapter in this innovative career has been the fusion between flamenco and classical Indian music.

Carmen Linares
Carmen Linares

Carmen Linares, Vocals

Grammy winner Carmen Linares is the stage name for Carmen Pacheco Rodríguez. She belongs to the best generation of flamenco artists with Paco de Lucía, Camarón, Enrique Morente, Jose Mercé, Manolo Sanlúcar, and Tomatito, and she is considered a flamenco legend. Carmen Linares has carved out a place for herself in contemporary Spanish musical culture. Carmen Linares is the most crucial flamenco cantora [singer] with the most significant songs of her artistic life.  Carmen is celebrated for her expressive voice; the 71-year-old was one of the first flamenco singers to perform at New York’s Lincoln Centre.