FLAMENCO CHRISTMAS 2009. FERNANDO TERREMOTO ZAMBOMBA PEÑA
Today isn’t zambomba’s
day
S.C. Madrid, December 21st, 2009
Zambomba of the Fernando Terremoto
Peña of Jerez. Cante and baile: Felipa del
Moreno, Niño de la Fragua, El Pescaílla, Rosario
Soto, Juan Flores, Luisa Terremoto, Juana Terremoto, Luisa
Medrano. Guitars: Antonio Higuero, Manuel Valencia. Director:
Fernando Terremoto. Esplanade of La Almudena Cathedral.
Madrid, December 21st, 2009, 8:30 p.m.
Zambomba flamenca de
la Peña Fernando Terremoto in Madrid,
December 2009
(Photo Daniel
Muñoz)
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Following a morning of intense snowfall,
the night wasn’t ripe for zambombas. And much less
so for an outdoor one, right in the middle of the esplanade
of La Almudena Cathedral in Madrid, with fog and icy rain
creeping in from the nearby mountains. It isn’t exactly
springtime in Jerez at this time of the year, but it surely
isn’t snowing and a candle is enough to warm up the
atmosphere. And if it rains, then go to such-and-such a
peña or such-and-such a house. The idea of importing
the Christmas music celebration typical of Jerez to a bland
square in the capital of Spain on the first day of winter
(and what a winter!) was as well-intentioned as it was unwise.
But the artists on stage as well as the small but self-sacrificing
audience made a laudable effort to enjoy this flamenco way
of celebrating Christmas which, like a mountain, traveled
from Jerez to Madrid one more year.
Zambomba
flamenca de la Peña Fernando Terremoto
in Madrid, December 2009
(Photo Daniel
Muñoz)
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People pulled through huddled around a
few gas heaters, sheltered with umbrellas, bundled up to
their ears and comforted with little glasses of sherry which,
after waiting in line, was offered to them by a winery.
Up on stage, the group of the Fernando Terremoto Peña,
without taking off their caps or their coats, went to great
pains to give them warmth, always under the attentive directing
of a discreet Fernando
Terremoto. And the more popular what they were singing
and playing was, the better they pulled it off. The most
typical Christmas carols, the ones requiring the most tambourines,
the most zambomba buzzing, the most compás and the
most participation from everyone, were the victors. The
ones like ‘Tin tin Catalina’ or like ‘Los
caminos se hicieron’ - the one that Romerito de Jerez
recorded on the ‘Magna Antología del Cante’
or in the voice of La Paquera included on the album 'Villancicos
Flamencos’- drew the crowd very close to the stage,
forming a circle. But solo performances were also thanked
for such as that of Luisa Medrano singing ‘Venid gitanos’
and the pleasant bulería ‘Vecinita, vecinita’
by El Pescaílla. And the thing is that when there’s
art and music and flavor and people and tradition, it doesn’t
matter what the skies look like.
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Zambomba
flamenca de la Peña Fernando Terremoto in Madrid,
December 2009 (Photo Daniel
Muñoz) |
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