“LOS VECINOS” / Flamenco Fusion

“LOS VECINOS” / Flamenco Fusion Presented by Terraza 7 Thursday, November 30th, 2023, at 8:00 pm.

$20: Cover charge for mezzanine.

Featuring:

• Arturo Soriano / Tenor Sax; flute
• Adrián Alvarado / Guitar
• Alfonso Cid / Cantaor; flute
• Peter Teresi / Bass
• Luis Ossa / Percussion

About “Los Vecinos”: Los Vecinos (The Neighbors) is a collective of musicians from New York City and its surrounding area. All of them bring to this project their experience in many musical fields and styles to perform a selection of Flamenco original compositions and covers by masters such as Paco de Lucía, Astor Piazolla, José Mercé, Kiko Veneno and others.

About Arturo Soriano: Madrid born Arturo is a self-taught musician who very early on in his career started playing and collaborating with artists of different genres such as pop, rock during the legendary 1980’s “Movida Madrileña” cultural movement. In 1992 he made his first production titled “De Ley” for Spanish pop star Rosario Flores (Sony Music). Since then, he has worked in numerous productions for multinational and independent record labels. He has performed with artists such as B.B. King, Brian May, Eliades Ochoa, Paco de Lucía or Raphael.

About Adrian Alvarado: Adrian, São Paulo, Brazil 1968. Spanish-Brazilian guitarist, composer, and arranger. (Monica Molina, Pastora Soler, Farhad Darya, Danilo Perez). Adrian Alvarado is a very versatile guitarist, with a solid career as soloist, session musician, as well as a sideman for many artists in the Flamenco scene, Jazz and Brazilian music.

About Alfonso Mogaburo Cid: Alfonso was born and raised in Sevilla, the heartland of flamenco music. He also had the opportunity of attending the activities of one of the most significant flamenco clubs in Andalusia, the Peña Flamenca Torres-Macarena in Seville. Alfonso has toured extensively throughout the USA, Latin America, Israel and Europe, and has just toured Spain last February of 2018 with the Jazz/Flamenco band the New York Bojaira Project by pianist Jesús Hernández from Granada, Spain.

About Peter Teresi: Born in New Jersey, Peter comes from a family of deep musical roots. He has been involved in many Jazz fusion and Flamenco bands with such artists as guitarist Raphael Brunn, Alfonso Cid as well as the Spanish Rock band Dientes de Caramelo.

About Luis Osa: Colombian percussionist born and raised in Medellín where he studied music and music management. He has been working as a percussionist for more than 15 years. Since 2005 he has immersed himself in Flamenco cajón playing, specializing in the accompaniment of Flamenco song and dance with masters such as Israel Heredia, Israel Suarez “El Piraña” and Ramón Porrina.