[inntoon]

I've been an avid guitarist for 30 years but am new to flamenco. I recently published a novel that pulled me into the world of flamenco guitar; the one genre of acoustic performance about which I was least informed. My research left me fascinated, and I made it a habit to write while listening to flamenco guitar music.

The book is a lighthearted and irreverent, philosophical adventure across southern Spain that also tackles the controversy about bull fighting from some new perspectives.

I'm hoping some of the participants here will find my work interesting and entertaining, and I hope to contribute something of substance to this community in return.

Thanks,

Dave Bricker
theDanceNovel.com

[Estanislao]

Originally Posted by inntoon

I've been an avid guitarist for 30 years but am new to flamenco. I recently published a novel that pulled me into the world of flamenco guitar; the one genre of acoustic performance about which I was least informed. My research left me fascinated, and I made it a habit to write while listening to flamenco guitar music.

The book is a lighthearted and irreverent, philosophical adventure across southern Spain that also tackles the controversy about bull fighting from some new perspectives.

I'm hoping some of the participants here will find my work interesting and entertaining, and I hope to contribute something of substance to this community in return.

Thanks,

Dave Bricker
theDanceNovel.com

Welcome aboard!

It was my dad who got me into flamenco music as a child back in the 60's, right about the time that Manitas de Plata released hie first album to the general public. I guess he'd heard something from it on the radio and it reminded him of the nights he spent in Spanish cantinas as a Navy sailor on leave back in 1953. He brought an acoustic guitar he'd picked up in a pawnshop and told us he was going to learn how to play flamenco music. He never did, But I never forgot it or the few pieces of music I've heard through the years and decided a few years ago to do it myself.

You should've heard his reaction when I played him a few short pieces over the phone a few months back! He is nearly eighty years old and never thought he'd hear it again, much less played on the guitar by one of his children. If I never make a dime from playing or the novel's I've written but haven't shopped around yet, where it plays a part, That one reaction will make all the work worth it! Though I don't intend on stopping there.

I hope you are playing it. You wouldn't believe the number of folks I've encountered online with a bit of a history like yours, long time guitar players who heard some flamenco music and took it up. Feel free to ask whatever and contribute what you learned in your research.