Flamenco trio
Spanish guitar for private events, played by Dirty Flamenco.
The plates are cleared, Gary Meyers leans into a bulería, the cajón answers him, and the whole table turns to watch. Dirty Flamenco is a working flamenco trio of guitar, bass and cajón. It plays under the conversation through cocktails and dinner, then steps forward for one set piece where your evening has space for it.
It books for a dinner party for twenty, a milestone birthday, a member event and a corporate dinner. For one guitarist playing solo at a ceremony, a cocktail hour or a dinner, book the Spanish guitarist.
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The set piece
One set piece, placed like a toast.
The set piece is planned. The trio plays the whole evening, and the set piece is its peak. Tell us where it should go in your timeline, the same way you'd place a toast, and the run of show page shows how that works.
The repertoire is palos, the traditional forms. The trio plays bulerías, soleá, alegrías and tangos as the forms themselves, under dinner and in the set piece.
Video Clips
The traditional forms, and one cover.
The trio plays live above, and once more in the first clip below. The rest is from Gary Meyers’ own channels: a Malagueña, a rumba, a farruca, tangos, the Sabicas verdiales, Can’t Help Falling in Love on flamenco guitar, and three guitars trading on Entre dos Aguas.
Occasions
Who books flamenco.
- Member and association events
- An evening with remarks in it that wants one thing guests describe the next day.
- The corporate dinner with one photographed moment
- Dinner at conversation volume, and the set piece after the remarks.
- The dinner party at home
- Twenty around a long table, a courtyard or a backyard, with flamenco under the whole meal. It’s the smallest booking the trio takes and the one it fits most naturally.
- The milestone birthday
- A fiftieth, a sixtieth, an anniversary or a retirement, in Denver or up in the mountains, with a centerpiece the guest of honor doesn’t have to host and no program to run.
- The wedding ceremony and cocktail hour
- Processional, prelude and recessional on nylon strings, then an hour of palos at conversation volume through the cocktail hour.
The cost guide gives a general view of what live music costs across Colorado. The palos below are the trio’s own set, and the wider covers list is on the repertoire page.
Configurations
| Size | What it suits |
|---|---|
| TrioFlamenco guitar, bass, cajon | Cocktails and dinner. It plays anywhere from background to full volume, and it doesn't need a dance floor. |
| QuartetThe trio plus a dancer | A program with a set piece in it. |
The size and the date set the price, since an hour of cocktails in Denver and a full evening in the mountains are different jobs.
A sample of the set
Flamenco is organized by palo, the traditional form, rather than by song title. A set is built from these and shaped to the crowd on the night, so the list here is a sample.
- Bulerias
- Solea
- Alegrias
- Tangos
- Rumba
- Fandangos
- Sevillanas
- Guajiras
Flamenco booking questions
Stage sizes and power are on the technical page, and the questions every booking shares, from substitutions to volume limits, are on the full question list.
- Is Dirty Flamenco traditional flamenco or Spanish guitar?
- Traditional flamenco. The repertoire is palos, the traditional forms: bulerias, solea, alegrias and tangos. A Spanish guitar booking plays familiar songs with a Spanish flavor; a flamenco booking plays the forms themselves. Dirty Flamenco is fronted by Gary Meyers and booked through Signet Artists in Denver.
- How loud is it?
- Under dinner it plays at the level of the conversation, so the table talks across it. The set piece is louder on purpose, because it's the part everyone stops to watch. The trio sets the level to the space and the crowd, and if your venue has a sound limit, just let us know the number and the trio plays under it.
- Is Spanish guitar right for a wedding ceremony?
- Yes. Nylon strings carry a processional and a recessional without amplification in most spaces, and the repertoire moves between Spanish pieces and the songs a couple asks for.
- Can we add a dancer?
- Yes. With a dancer the trio becomes a quartet, and the dancer is the set piece. Just let us know and we'll price the quartet with the date.
Tell us where the set piece goes, and we'll bring Dirty Flamenco.
Live music for your event, from a solo musician to a full band, with sound support that’s the right size for the venue and a personal contact for the night.