Mosaics, Gerardo Alcala, flamenco guitarist biography

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Published 2023-07-11
Mozaico Flamenco presents our new series "MOSAICS" which documents the History of Flamenco in Vancouver with important flamenco personalities and mentors to the artistic landscape of Vancouver Flamenco since the 1980s. This is a biography of the flamenco guitarist, Gerardo Alcala, one who has served and lived in Vancouver, BC, Canada since 1989.

Gerardo Alcala is an Irish-American and now Canadian flamenco guitarist with Cherokee indigenous ancestry. This is a biography of Gary Hayes, stage name Gerardo Alcala, as he talks about his early life, discovering flamenco guitar, trips to Spain and important life message "Wabi-Sabi".

This series is brought to you by the DIGITAL NOW 2022 initiative of the Strategic Funds Program, Canada Council for the Arts #bringingtheartstolife.

We are filming on the traditional, unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations in Greater Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada and are grateful to be here.

Kasandra Lea, documentarian
Lia Grainger, video editor
www.mozaicoflamenco.com

Background: Flamenco as an art form began in the 1950s with an Argentine-Spanish bailarin named Angel Monzon, moving through the 1960s with up and coming flamenco guitarists Victor Kolstee and Harry Owen, and with the arrival of Spanish cantaores Jose Lara in 1967 and Angel Romero in 1970. The period we are documenting in a series of 5 MOSAICS documentaries are of maestros since the 1980s including Gerardo Alcala and Peter Mole, flamenco guitarists, and also flamenco dancers, Oscar Nieto, Rosario Ancer and Veronica Maguire.

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