Tzigane Music News&Events

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FLAMENCO SHOW

Zhanna Saparova - dance

Beau Bledsoe - guitar, oud

Hector Aguirre - guitar, percussion

Fernando Achúcarro - percussion

Two Shows

6:00pm and 7:30pm

Friday July, 11, 2008
no cover

JP WineBar and Coffee House
located on the corner of 16th & Walnut
in the Crossroads Art District.
1526 Walnut | Kansas City, MO | 64108

816.842.2660

Beau Bledsoe - guitar

Fernando Achúcarro - percussion

perform two Sunday brunch shows @

Café Sebastienne at the Kemper Museum

July 20, July 27th, 12-2pm

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
4420 Warwick Blvd. Kansas City, Missouri 64111
Reservations can also be made by calling 816-561-7740

Guitar Summit @ KC Fringe Festival

Venue- Arts Incubator II
1737 Walnut
ticket info- http://www.kcfringe.org/fringe-shop.html
website: kcfinge.org

Steve Gouge - Kentucky / Nashville fingerstyle guitar
Kevin Hiatt - American Fingerstyle Guitar
Beau Bledsoe - Classical Guitar, Flamenco, Oud

Dates/Times- July 23(Weds) 8pm $10 admission
July 25 (Fri) 8pm $10 admission
July 27 (Sun) 3:30pm $10 admission

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Tango Lorca @ Bar Natasha

Special Tango/Flamenco double bill. One night only!

Tuesday, May 20, 8pm.

Adriana Maresma Fois will no longer be performing with us. The admission is now $13.00 instead of $18.00. If you have reservations, we can refund your entire ticket price or refund the difference.

$13.00 admission

1911 Main Street Kansas City, MO 64108 (816) 472-5300

tickets: $13.00
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Owen/Cox Dance Group presents "Bottom of the Big Top" at the H&R Block
City Stage in Kansas City's Union Station May 22, 23 & 24.

The program will include:
A Good Missouri Song--a collage of ragtime, fiddle tunes, shape note
songs, and Kansas City jazz

12 Miniature Blues--a Webernesque study of melodic and rhythmic blues motifs

Veni in Hortum Meum--from the evocative and sensual poetry of the 2,000
year-old Song of Songs

Bottom of the Big Top--a collaboration with artist Nate Fors, with music
inspired by early 20th century circus music

Featuring dancers Chloe Abel, Matthew Carney, Andrew Lamar, Jennifer Owen, Matthew Powell, Rebka Sakati, Jennifer Tierney, and Lateef Williams, and musicians, Beau Bledsoe (guitar & dobro), Christine
Brebes (violin), Brad Cox (piano), Nathan Granner (voice), Jeff Harshbarger (bass & saz), Lidia Kaminska (accordion), Erin Keller (voice), Valery Price (voice), and Sam Wisman (drums)

Thursday, May 22: 7:30pm

Friday and Saturday May 23 & 24: 8:00pm

H&R Block City Stage Theater

30 W. Pershing

KCMO 64108

$15, $10 Students, Seniors, and Groups

Tickets available at 816-460-2020 or www.unionstation.org

For more information, please visit www.owencoxdance.org

Duo Lorca performs three special Sunday brunch shows @

Café Sebastienne at the Kemper Museum

May18, 53th, June 1st, 12-2pm

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
4420 Warwick Blvd. Kansas City, Missouri 64111
Reservations can also be made by calling 816-561-7740

Brandon Draper - world percussion • loops • bass

Beau Bledsoe - guitar • oud

Turkish, Flamenco, African, Brazilian, Indian

Wednesday May. 28, 2008
8-11pm, no cover

JP WineBar and Coffee House
located on the corner of 16th & Walnut
in the Crossroads Art District.
1526 Walnut | Kansas City, MO | 64108

816.842.2660

Join Beau Bledsoe as he gives a presentation about the historic Martin Parlor Guitar from the Kansas City Museum Collection.

Community Curator: A Project of the Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall

With guest curator Beau Bledsoe on the Parlor Guitar

2:00 p.m.

Town Hall at Union Station Kansas City

March 16, 2008

Read Beau's paper about the instrument here.

Journey Tribute band featuring members of Blackpool Lights, Ultimate Fakebook, namelessnumberheadman and Jeff Harshbarger (Tango Lorca)

Date: March 15th
Time: 11:00 pm, $7.00

RECORD BAR
816-753-5207

1020 Westport Rd
KC, MO 64111

Brandon Draper - world percussion • loops • bass

Beau Bledsoe - guitar • oud

Turkish, Flamenco, African, Brazilian, Indian

Wednesday March. 26, 2008
8-11pm

no cover

JP Wine Bar and Coffee House
located on the corner of 16th & Walnut
in the Crossroads Art District.
1526 Walnut | Kansas City, MO | 64108

816.842.2660

If you missed us last month, please try to make it to this encore performance. The room was packed the last time so call and reserve a good table if you can.

via España

Adriana Maresma Fois

“Adriana Maresma Fois’ insides are on fire; she fights with intensity and unhibited vehemence.“ -Neue Luzerner Newspaper, Switzerland

Flamenco Performance: Thursday, March 27, 8pm.
@ Madrigall’s
1627 Oak
Kansas City, Mo
tickets - $12.00

Happy hour drink specials 5-8pm

5-6pm free Antonio's Pizza!

Brandon Draper - percussion
Beau Bledsoe - guitar
Fernando Achúcarro - cajon
Mark Southerland - Saxophone

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SOLD OUT

Victoria Botero - soprano

Beau Bledsoe- guitar & oud

in concert

Sunday, November 4th. 2:30pm,

15800 Johnson Drive, Shawnee, Kansas 66217

at the beautiful home of Carlos & Beatriz Dujovne

Music of Heitor Villa Lobos, Erik Satie, Astor Piazzolla, Claude Debussy and Ottoman songs from Istanbul.

$20 per ticket

appetizers and wine will be served.

Victoria Botero, soprano, most recently performed with Des Moines Metro Opera as a James Collier Apprentice. She has also sung with Tulsa Opera outreach as a Studio Artist in the role of Carolina (Luisa Fernanda). Other recent performances include Manuela (El Barberillo de Lavapies) with Light Opera Oklahoma and Messiah with the Blacksburg Master Chorale in Blacksburg, Virginia and the Kansas City Metro Opera. Victoria has worked with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City as a featured performer in the NEA-funded program Great American Voices and in the outreach tour of Little Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio. Her other roles include Adele (Die Fledermaus) with the Kansas City Metro Opera, Sister Constance (Dialogues of the Carmelites), Musetta (La Bohème), Mary Warren (The Crucible) and Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) with the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Victoria will make her debut in the winter of 2007 with Quality Hill Playhouse in their holiday cabaret, Christmas in Song. In addition to performing, Victoria teaches voice through Kansas City Young Audiences.

Beau Bledsoe comes from a large musical family in Little Rock, Arkansas. He began his formal studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and later relocated to the Kansas City Conservatory of Music where he received a Masters of Music under Douglas Niedt. It was at this time that Beau met the musicians and founded the groups that he still performs with today such as tenor, Nathan Granner, classical violinist Gregory Sandomirsky, composer/pianist Brad Cox, and the Argentine Tango quintet Tango Lorca. His interest in exploring new repertoire, cultures and programming ideas has led to the creation of a large body of arrangements, transcriptions and compositions for the solo guitar and chamber music. Beau has also worked extensively with the Guthrie Theater of Minneapolis, Kansas City’s new music ensemble, New Ear and the Kansas City Ballet. Most recently he has co-founded the flamenco music and dance school Manos Rojas, the flamenco dance company Esencias Flamencas and the independent record label Tzigane Music, which is home to five of Beau’s own recorded projects. He has served as music faculty at both Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas and Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri and has continued his own musical studies with such masters as Antonio Andrade, Miguel Rodriguez, Santiago Aguilar, Pedro Cortez Jr. and Luis Heredia of La Repompa de Málaga. Through his many diverse projects and ensembles, Beau has had the great fortune of performing in almost every state in the U.S. as well as touring to Russia, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Germany, France and Switzerland. His music is regularly programmed on radio1 BBC, “Segovia a Yupanki” Radio Nacional Argentina, and “All Songs Considered” on NPR. Currently, Beau has become an avid student of Ottoman Classical Music and is studying the Oud.

Seating is very limited.
Map of 15800 Johnson Dr Shawnee, KS 66217
SOLD OUT

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Beau Bledsoe performs flamenco guitar and oud with

Quixotic Fusion

September, 21-22, 2007

2 performances - 8pm and 10pm

at La Esquina Art Gallery
25th & S.W. Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri 64108
Cost : $10.00

Nathan Granner and Beau Bledsoe

Saturday October 6th, 2007
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Bell Cultural Events Center
Cost: $35, $25, $15
Performing Arts Series
Contact: 913-971-3636
More Info: www.mnu.edu/events/bellcenter/index.php#grannerbledsoe

Beau Bledsoe featured on WUWF, Pensicola.

Steve Tortorici interviews Beau for "The Artists Files".

Tzigane Catalogue now available on iTunes!

Nathan Granner and Beau Bledsoe performed in Perm, Russia during the international festival, The Diaghilev Seasons: Perm–Petersbourg–Paris-2007.

Review:
".....however, in the same concert performed a duo whose “Operas in flamenco style” turned out to be one of the major events of the third “Diaghilev seasons festival.” Americans Nathan Granner (tenor) and Beau Bledsoe (guitar) in forty minutes with skilled virtuosity, gave a lesson in music history. They performed in flamenco style music from Monteverdi, blues and spirituals."

-Wall Street Journal and Financial Times of Russia

see photos / read blog

photo: Charles Stonewall

Owen/Cox Dance Group
October, 5 - 6, 2007 at la Esquina
25th & S.W. Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri

Owen/Cox Dance Group and The People's Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City present two big fun shows, October 5 & 6, 8:00 pm. New works by Owen/Cox Dance Group, P. Alonzo Conway, Bill McKemy, Jeffrey Ruckman, and Mark Southerland accompanied by the melodious cacophony of the People's Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City.

Cost : $10

Tango Lorca's "Mujer Sola" now in third reprint.

This recording has made its way around the world to some of the most famous Tango venues in the world. To celebrate this fact, we're going to offer this CD for $10.00 till August 15th (Just in case your copy has gotten a little worn out...)

Here's an interesting video of the title track "Mujer Sola" danced by Argentine Tango master, "El Pulpo".

Hector Del Curto and Beau Bledsoe featured on NPR.

Sylvia Maria Gross from KCUR published this story for PRI segment "The World".

Listen story and read transcript

New Tzigane Podcast!

Tzigane Music Showcase podcast No6, Sat, 7 July 2007

Beau Bledsoe discusses his new release "¡Olé Che!" as well as a new album from Hector Del Curto.

Tzigane Music Presents:
Mavrothi T. Kontanis with special guest: Megan Weeder - violin
Performing "Wooden Heart"

All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Kansas City, Missouri
4501 Walnut St. Kansas City, MO 64111
Sunday, June 10th, 4pm admission $10.00

"Wooden Heart"

Please join us at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday, June 10th at 4pm for a concert with New york based performers, Megan Weeder (violin) and Mavrothi T. Kontanis (oud and voice). The program will consist of classical, urban, and folk repertoire by Turkish, Greek, and Armenian composers, including several original compositions.

For as long as we can remember throughout human history, there has been the oud and oud players. They have performed in fields, taverns, and palaces; sometimes expressing joy, and at times pain. Each oud and oud player therefore has inherited the music and emotion that have been passed down from one millenia to another, like the light from a candle which will never go out. Like a beating heart made of wood.

http://www.oudcafe.com
http://www.neroquesto.com
http://www.aegeanseabridge.org


	Tzigane Music Presents: Nathan Granner and Beau Bledsoe are to perform two concerts in The Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre (May, 19th and 21st) in Perm, Russia during the international festival The Diaghilev Seasons: Perm–Petersbourg–Paris-2007. The third international music and theatre festival named after the famous Perm citizen Sergej Diaghilev, aims at keeping the traditions of classical and contemporary art and promoting new artists. The festival will be held at The Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre, one of Russia’s most distinguished artistic venues. Perm, spectacularly perched above the Kama river, is a city with old musical traditions. The Theatre as we know it today was founded in 1870. Since then, it has produced a growing number of classical and contemporary works with an emphasis on the operas and ballets of Pyotr Thaikovsky who was born near Perm. Perm was also the home of Sergei Diaghilev, the world — famous impresario and the genius of «Ballets Russes», who launched Anna Pavlova and Nijinsky on the European stage.


Tzigane Music Presents: The People's Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City Performing "The Nutcracker" Sunday, December 10, 4:00 p.m. $8.00 All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church (4501 Walnut, KCMO 64111) The People's Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City presents a reinterpretation of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet score and dramatization of E.T.A Hoffman's original Nutcracker story Featuring: Jake Blanton, P. Alonzo Conway, Brad Cox, Stephanie Cox, Jeff Harshbarger, James Isaac, Scotty McBee, Bill McKemy, Jeffrey Ruckma, Aaron Simcox, Forest Stewart, Rich Wheeler, Roger Wilder and John Wirt With Special Guests: DJ Clem, Mike Dillon, Mark Southerland, and Lilah Wilder And Arrangements by: P. Alonzo Conway, Brad Cox, Jeff Harshbarger, Bill McKemy, Jeffrey Ruckma, and Forest Stewart For more information on The People's Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City visit www.bradcoxmusic.com

Tango Lorca with special guests, Hector del Curto and Jisoo Ok,Will be performing Saturday night, June 3rd at the Stone Soup Tango Festival, - Kansas City's first tango festival.

The festival is June 1 - 4, 2006 and features a healthy collection of internationally renowned tango teachers and musicians.

* Introductory classes each evening, with the country's best instructors.
* Private lessons available each morning.
* Tango Performance and All-night Ball Saturday, with Tango Lorca.
* First friday tango in the Crossroads gallery district.
* All day tango activities with dancers and teachers from around the
country!

The schedule is too jam-packed with activities to list in an email so please visit, www.ko-arts.com/soup.htm

Map to venue


	Jennifer Owen Wins Columbus Choreographic Competition Jennifer Owen, was recently selected as one of three winning finalists in Columbus Ohio’s second Columbus Choreography Project for her piece “When Jesus Wept,” choreographed on six members of BalletMet of Ohio to a musical arrangement by Tzigane artist (and husband) Brad Cox. The recording of “When Jesus Wept“ features fellow Tzigane artists Nathan Granner and Krystle Warren, as well as frequent contributors the Brad Cox Ensemble, Valery Price, Sascha Groschang, and Jennifer Bryan. Jennifer has choreographed seven previous works in collaboration with Tzigane artists, including selections from Nathan Granner and Beau Bledsoe’s interpretations of Shubert‘s “Winterreise” and Duparc‘s “Chanson Triste,” and Brad Cox’s “Pulchra Es” and “Three Balkan Folk Songs.”


Tzigane artists, Tango Lorca, competes in New York City's International Tango Music competition and wins trip to Kansas City's sister city Sevilla, Spain. The competition was held at The Consulate General of Argentina on May 10th and 11th, with finals on the 12th. Twenty- five groups were accepted to participate. The competition jury was comprised of Mirian Conti, Chair, Competition Director and internationally renowned pianist, Mario Broeders, composer and New York representative of Academia Portena del Lunfardo, Argentina, Ben Molar, legendary promoter of tango and tango musicians, Richard Nidel, World Music authority, Susan Palma, flutist of the Orpheus Chamber and American Composers Orchestras and Jeffrey James, international arts consultant. The Competition's stated purpose of playing a meaningful role in the discovery and support of new talents exploring and preserving the art of Tango was more than realized by the tremendous outpouring of imagination, energy, talent and love of the tango that was evident to the performers and to the public. Tango Lorca will travel March 2005 for four days where they will have performances and participate in the 6th Cumbre Mundial del Tango in Sevilla, Spain.


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