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| Coming Events | Past Events | Critical Acclaim | Home Page | About Siempre Flamenco | Celia Fonta | I Festival de Cante | II Festival de Cante | III Festival de Cante | Audiovisuals | Lead singer, Nate Mosley, has a unique voice that suits the style perfectly.
Fonta's guitar can be heard on Gloria Estefans hit record"Cuts Both Ways", the new hit song"Tu Amor" by Olga Tañon, and many other recordings with Latin artists. The Jondo Trio (JD3), from Kendallville, IN, is the impeccable mix of blues and gospel music. Paco Fonta was a recipient of the Florida Folk Life Apprenticeship Program as a Master Artist for the years 1998-99, and 1999-00, has been performing at the Florida Folk Festival since 1998.Īs a composer, he has collaborated on writing dance music for Ballet Flamenco la Rosa with vocalist, oud and dumbek player Joe Zeytoonian, with The Roach Thompson Blues Band, with Indian musicians Paul Leak and Steve Gorn, and most recently with the Afro Cuban dance company, Iroko. and abroad, most notably with Ballet Flamenco la Rosa based in Miami, Bailes Ferrer out of Ft.Lauderdale, The Ensemble Espanol from Chicago, and Carmen Garza Flamenco Ballet in Venezuela. Mr.Fonta works with several flamenco dance companies in the U.S. Since then Mr.Fonta has worked at all the tablaos in Miami and now produces his own flamenco show to sellout crowds at the Casa Panza Restaurant. In 1986 Paco Fonta came with his wife Celia, also a well-known flamenco dancer to open the famous Cacharrito's Place Tablao in Miami. In 1985 he won first prize in cante jondo at the flamenco festival in Jaen, Spain. He later toured Europe with the Kurt Savoy Trio.
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Born in a small town near Jaen in the Andalusia region of southern Spain, he began his professional career performing in tablaos and festivals accompanying singers and dancers, including such artists as La Nina de la Huerta and Antonio Molina. He has been praised as an accomplished singer of Cante Jondo, the most authentic, profound, and difficult of the flamenco styles. Paco Fonta is internationally recognized as a foremost flamenco guitarist, singer, and composer. The final ingredient is a message, a message of “faith, failure and forgiveness.” Throw in some tasty hickory-smoked bacon and you’ve got a recipe for musical success.Flamenco Guitarist Paco Fonta performs with Siempre Flamenco Flamenco guitar classes and perfomance in Miami, Florida, Siempre Flamenco They take all of these influences and throw them in the blues rock pot, mix it up with a tasty dose of 12-bar blues, Southern soul and boogie woogie. The Jondo Trio pull from a long line of blues rock influences: from ZZ Top, Beck, Bogert & Appice and Cream, to more modern bands like Nickelback, Seven Mary Three, 3 Doors Down and even Creed, with Mosley’s Scott Stapp-like leaning voice. Then it’s back to a slow blues dirge on “Eye On The Prize.” “I’m a codependent, non-repentant, convoluted mess / Non-committed bystander is the title I like best,” Mosley sings over a light, flowing track. “Desire” comes in to cool things down a bit with almost a Hootie and the Blowfish vibe. “Dealin’ With the Devil” is up next and keeps the blues rock comin’ with lyrics like, “Ain’t no use in crying, ain’t no need to beg / I’ll be dealing with the devil, until my dying bed” and a nice slide solo and repeat. With a mid-song acoustic solo, “Homesick” gets the album off on the right foot. During his lifetime, he completed several compositions, among which there are five major works for orchestra: Antar Atman (1980), Ariadna (1984), Sahara (1991), Oleada (1993) and Coma Berenices (1997). He was born in Linares and died in Madrid.Ver también. Drummer Paul Osborn and bass player Stu Way hold the bottom end down just fine. Francisco Guerrero Marín (J October 19, 1997) was a Spanish composer. On album opener “Homesick” smokin’ hot blues riffs and the wailing blues growl of Nate Mosley heat up the speakers enough to fry, well, bacon.
These Midwestern blues rockers tout that they’re “Lovers of Jesus, the blues and bacon” on their website, and the first two are prominent on Jondo Trio’s debut album. Over the years there have been plenty of mainstream artists who have talked and written about their Christian beliefs: Lenny Kravitz, Sufjan Stevens, Kings X and Tim Tebow, just to name a few.