Nathalie Moyano Gonzalez is a flamenco aficionado by heritage. She is co-founder and director of Peña Flamenca El Indalo, which promotes flamenco in Ireland. The group runs the Dublin Flamenco School and the Dublin Flamenco Festival. Nathalie will be joined by members of her school, Andrea, Laura y Damian, for a showcase performance, and by Kini, a young boy from Sevilla who will also join in the dancing.
José de
la María is a Flamenco guitarist. José is originally from Málaga and he moved to Dublin in
2011 when he joined Peña Flamenca El Indalo.
Details of the school and festival can be found on
Eamon Sweeney was awarded the first musicology PhD
to be accredited by DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. He has
performed on stage, radio and TV both as a solo artist and with various
ensembles including the National Symphony Orchestra and National Concert
Orchestra. Eamon is also one half of the group Tonos that specializes
in a blend of Irish and European music from the 16thto 18th
centuries – mixing musical flavours from the wider Traditional Irish, Celtic and
Spanish Traditions. The Spanish word ‘tonos’ translates as ‘tone.’
Maria Scanlon, a
fluent Spanish (and French) speaker, will be reading from the great Chilean
poet and politician Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems VEINTE POEMAS DE AMOR
Y UNA CANCÍON in Spanish. People may also have heard of Neruda from the
famous Italian film 'Il Postino' which is a fictional story but uses the
real-life figure of Neruda as one of its central characters.
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