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Sun, Jan 25, 2009
With the exception of a few melancholic heart-breakers, the ensemble played music so fast and furious that one felt as if they were on a reckless horseback ride for over two galloping hours.
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Beau Bledsoe
New Classical and Flamenco Contributor
Beau Bledsoe, musician and composer, is a founding member of the well-known Argentine Tango quintet Tango Lorca and the independent record label Tzigane. He has toured throughout the United States, across Europe and in Russia, Mexico and Argentina. His recordings are regularly featured on Radio1 BBC, "Segovia a Yupanki" Radio Nacional Argentina, and "All Songs Considered" on National Public Radio. He is also co-founder of the flamenco music and dance school Manos Rojas and the flamenco dance company Esencias Flamencas.
Bledsoe did undergraduate work at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock and completed the graduate guitar program at the UMKC Conservatory of Music. He has studied independently in southern Spain and in the tango scene of Buenos Aires with masters such as Antonio Andrade, Miguel Rodriguez, Santiago Aguilar, Pedro Cortez and Luis Heredia of La Repompa de Málaga.
Flamenco show offers insight into the art forms strengths and weakness
Sat, Nov 15, 2008
A very excited audience poured out a packed Folly Theater last Saturday night abuzz with commentary and childlike giddiness. This is the bedazzling effect even the most banal Flamenco can have on a person. For when a Flamenco show runs on all cylinders, it is a highly seductive and emotive catharsis for both performer and audience.
La Puebla de Cazalla - Flamenco
Wed, Oct 29, 2008
"I’m a big fan of the flamenco singing tradition, and it had always been a 'before I die' dream of mine to simply sit next to a real flamenco singer, in Andalucia, and accompany a soleá."
The old Martin in the museum
Sun, Oct 05, 2008
One of Kansas City 's hardest working guitarists and KCM contributors, Beau Bledsoe, tells all about a rare find in a place that should have been likely... but really, wasn't.
El Chiquero
Tue, Nov 17, 2009
Soledad Barrio took the stage again for the mother of all Flamenco forms the Soleá, a gypsy version of the word 'Soledad' meaning Solitude. A form that like her name, she truly owns. Eugenio Iglesias' guitar introduction was a lush sound of light and dark tonalities mirrored by Farrar's chiaroscuro lighting.