Hey Hey Gang! Yesterday we spent a fantastic day in Tarascon... Tarascon is about 17km from Arles a 20 minute bus ride through some beautiful Provencale country... Farm houses and fields of stuff... I can't really name all that is growing out there but needless to say the vino will never go dry!! We spent the day at the castle.. It's one of the first castles that had not only one but two indoor toilets.... Okay... If you can call a hole with a 30 foot vertical drop a toilet then that's exactly what they were.. We took le Grande tour.... They had a beautiful garden filled with ponds with water lillies... Again the sun was blazing hot so needless to say the cool damp castle felt good to wonder around in... The evening brought yet another adventure... We had the honor of seeing Georges play... This time fo the year the Gitane comunity gets together in Tarascon and has a small carnival and they set up a stage and some of the regions finest Gypsy musicians come out and just play for the comunity... It was a kind of Pick up band if you will, but as always The music was out of this world..
The band consisted of Georges Reyes, son of Nicolas Reyes of the Gipsy King, Pablo Patrac, two guys who I have seen before and I know there is someone out there who can name them... TEE HEE... And Canut Amador son of Pablo Reyes.. It's amazing to see that this music is alive and well... And honestly it's a shame that most of it never gets out of the South of France... So click on the links that I have off to the side these are all fantastic places to learn more about Gypsy music!!! Here are just a few more of Georges," Otro Pablo" Canut Amador & Kema warming up... Well gang that's all for now.. I will certianly post more soon. ~Mel~PS. Okay figured out who the guy in the middle is.. Muchas gracias a mi amiga!!!
He is Kema.... Grandson of Manitas De Plata... Hmm no wonder he plays the guitar like he was kissed by an Angel....
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Yeap that's the sad bit cos so many of them are SO talented but it just rests withing the Sth of France...Lucky you...would have loved to have attended the show...I dont know the guy in pink but the guy in white, is that Kema? His face isnt clear and its shielded by Georges guitar in the other pic but that looks like him and that is the kinda guitar he plays...check
http://www.gypsymusique.com/Chico_2005.htm
There is a close-up of him in there
Woo hoo chica !!
I knew you would come through for me... I had a feeling that was Kema.. Just watching him play I looked at him and went woah that dude has Baliardo genes.. Helps that Manitas is his grandfather!!
Now I can post the pic I took of just him and not feel to stupid.. again, MUCHAS GRACIAS!!
~MEL~
Hahaaaaaa Yeap, that IS Kema, I FINALLY can see his face:)))))) Yeap, he is EXCELLENT, every year I watch him play and he has improved tremendously...EXTREMELY TALENTED
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