Nueva York Flamenco City & Xianix Barrera. Presented by Terraza 7. Saturday, February 5th, 2022 at 9:00 pm.
$15 Cover charge for Mezzanine. $20: Donation suggested.
Featuring:
Xianix Barrera / Bailaora. Juan Pedro Jimenez Relinque / Guitar. Alfonso Cid / Cantaor.
About Xianix Barrera: Xianix Barrera, a native New Yorker born to Puerto Rican and Dominican parents, had her first exposure to music and dance at an early age with studies in ballet, modern, jazz and percussion. Xianix began flamenco studies in New York and deepened them in Spain with distinguished masters including Andres Peña, Concha Vargas, Carmen Ledesma and Raquel Heredia among others. She has worked and performed with such prominent artists as Isabel Bayón, Ángel Muñoz, Soledad Barrio and Juan Ogalla.
About Juan Pedro Jimenez Relinque: Juan Pedro, a native of Cadiz in the South of Spain, was raised performing with the gypsy family Romeros de Vejer. A singer and guitarist, he studied music at the Royal Conservatory and learned from Flamenco singer Calixto Sánchez, Jose Anillo, and guitarists such as Victor Rosa, Tito Alcedo, and Rafael Segura Torres (Faluky). Since graduating from the Conservatory, Juan Pedro has gone on to work with such artists as Toñi Romero, Susana Romero, Ana Polanco, Selu del Puerto, Maria del Mar Ramos and Juanito Berrocal. And recently with Javier Heredia at Alegrías en la Nacional in New York City. He also had the privilege to play for the great flamenco dance teacher Carmen Cornejo de Cádiz, for more than ten years. He currently collaborates with local Flamenco artists and can be seen performing regularly in the Tri-State area. In recent years, has toured the Ferias de Sevilla, Jerez, El Puerto de Santa Maria, Sanlucar, Algeciras, and Cordoba. He has also played in El Rocio with the Hermandad de Jerez, and in Peñas Flamencas and Festivals throughout the Province of Cádiz
About Alfonso Cid: Alfonso was born and raised in Sevilla, the heartland of flamenco music. He also had the opportunity of attending the activities of one of the most significant flamenco clubs in Andalusia, the Peña Flamenca Torres-Macarena in Seville. Alfonso has toured extensively throughout the USA, Latin America, Israel, and Europe, and has just toured Spain last February of 2018 with the Jazz/Flamenco band the New York Bojaira Project by pianist Jesús Hernández from Granada, Spain.