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The North of Spain has a long Celtic history. The provinces of Galicia and Asturias, in particular, have their own music and
dance forms, and regional dialects of Spanish. The traditional instrumentation includes bagpipes, flutes, voice, violin,
percussion, and other instruments.
The great flamenco guitar virtuoso Sabicas was a Spanish Gypsy, who was born in the North (Navarra), and he must have heard
much of the Celtic folklore in his childhood. During his career, he composed many pieces based on these Celtic themes, imitating
the bagpipes, flutes, and percussion on his guitar. Other flamenco guitarists followed his lead, such as the Galician-born
flamenco guitarist Xesus Pimentel. Some of today's top flamenco guitarists, including Juan Manuel Cañizares, Vicente
Amigo, and Isidro Muñoz have recorded with Spanish bagpipers Carlos Núñez and José Ángel
Hevia. The result is an exciting blend of flamenco and Celtic sound.
Lucia and Valdemar are continuing this tradition of flamencos interpreting the music and dance of Celtic Spain. Using flamenco
instrumentation, they are recreating the sounds of the gaita (bagpipe), flutes, voice, violin, and percussion, and like the
great Spanish Dance companies (Jose Greco Sr, the National Ballet of Spain, etc), they are recreating the folkloric dances
alongside the flamenco dance.
CELT-IBERIA provides an exciting new program of music and dance to the already powerful performances of Lucia and Valdemar
- Gitanerías Flamenco.
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