Paco Peña tours the United States and Canada with the flamenco show ‘A Compás!’

Bailaores Ángel Muñoz, Ramón Martínez and Charo Espino accompany the Córdoba-born guitarist on the tour

Flamenco-world.com, September 2009

Just a few weeks after premiering ‘Flamenco sin Fronteras’ at Sadler’s Wells in London, the Paco Peña Company sets out on a new tour around the United States and Canada. From September 30th to October 29th, 2009, the veteran Córdoba-born guitarist presents ‘A Compás!’ at nearly twenty stages in North America. And he has himself accompanied on such an intense tour by bailaores Ángel Muñoz, Ramón Martínez and Charo Espino, guitarists Paco Arriaga and Rafael Montilla, cantaores Miguel Ortega and Inmaculada Rivero, and percussionist Nacho López. The show tries to emphasize the differences between flamenco’s different rhythms and show how the solo guitarist, guitarist in a group and the bailaores both solo and in a group express themselves in each of them. The repertoire is highlighted by alboreá, caña, martinete, cantiñas, the face-off between guitar and castanets, as well as the pieces ‘Suite, Guitarra y Danza’ and ‘Ritmo nuevo’.

Paco Peña Company, 'A compás!' (Photo Elaine Mayson)

Peña ‘A Compás!’. USA & Canadá 2009 Tour

UNITED STATES

September 30th
McCarther Theatre
Princeton, NJ

October 1st
Troy Music Hall
Troy, NY

October 2nd
NY Town Hall, World Music Institute
New York, NY

October 3rd
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Philadelphia, PA

Paco Peña with Ángel Muñoz, 'A compás!'
(Photo Levent Yyldyz)

October 4th
Berklee Performance Centre
Boston, MA

October 8th
Royal Hall, UCLA Centre for the Arts
Los Angeles, CA

October 10th
Rialto Centre, Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA

October 11th
Miller Outdoor Theatre,
Houston, TX

October 13th
Boulder Theatre
Boulder, Colorado

October 15th
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

Paco Peña and Charo Espino, 'A compás!'
(Photo Elaine Mayson)

CANADA

October 17th
Massey Hall & Roy Thomson Hall
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

October 19th
Southam Hall, National Arts Centre
Ottawa, Ontario, CA

October 21st
Palais Montcalm, Raoul-Jobin Hall
Quebec, QC

October 23rd
Theatre Outremont
Montreal, QC

October 24th
Banff Centre for the Arts, Eric Harvie Theatre
Banff, AB

October 25th
Farquar Auditorium
Victoria, BC

October 27th
Vogue Theatre
Vancouver, BC

October 28th & 29th
Arden Theatre St
Albert, AB