HOLIDAY FUNDRAISING SALON EL ZAGUÁN
Villancicos Flamencos: Celebrating the Holidays in Spain
Presentation by Nicolasa Chávez • Accompanied by Guitarist Luis Campos
• SOLD OUT •
A Fundraiser for Historic Santa Fe Foundation and San Miguel Chapel
Made possible by the New Mexico Humanities Council, which is supported by grants from National Endowment for the Humanities.
Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 6pm MT in San Miguel Chapel
Open to the public
$15 admission for HSFF members. $20 for non-members. SOLD OUT.
Refunds will only be issued if canceled within 48 hours. Registration is required.
Your name will be checked at the door before entry. HSFF staff will be on-hand at 5:30pm for check-in.
Contact: Hanna Churchwell at hanna@historicsantafe.org or call 505.983.2567 for more information.
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NICOLASA CHÁVEZ AND LUIS CAMPOS
Historic Santa Fe Foundation presents the 2022 Holiday Fundraising Salon El Zaguán with Nicolasa Chávez and Luis Campos Villancicos Flamencos: Celebrating the Holidays in Spain. The live performance is scheduled for Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 6:00pm at San Miguel Chapel.
ABOUT THE LECTURE & PERFORMANCE:
In 2021, we hosted a performance with State Historian Robert Martinez at the historic San Miguel Chapel, located in the heart of Barrio de Analco. We are delighted to once again hold a performance and salon at San Miguel with Deputy State Historian Nicolasa Chávez. Please join Chávez as she traces the history of Villancicos (Spanish holiday songs) via the lyrics and music of Medieval Spain to the present. Villancicos often represent the journey of José y María (Joseph and Mary) and Los Reyes Magos (The Three Kings) or they represent the local villagers preparing for the wedding of José y María or searching for the perfect gift for the Christ child. The Gitanos of Southern Spain have passed down the Flamenco versions of these songs for generations, often imbuing the characters with a local twist. This celebratory presentation combines history, storytelling, and music to bring Villancicos Flamencos to New Mexico and demonstrate their relationship to our local dramatic reenactments of Las Posadas, Los Pastores and Los Reyes Magos.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nicolasa Chávez, a fourteenth generation New Mexican, is a historian, curator and performance artist, whose work concentrates on the rich multicultural heritage of New Mexico and the connection between New Mexico and the Spanish speaking world. Her exhibitions include New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Mate y Más, The Red that Colored the World, Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico, and Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico. She is the author of The Spirit of Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico (Museum of New Mexico Press) and A Century of Masters: the NEA National Heritage Fellows of New Mexico (LPD Press) which won a New Mexico Book Award. During her early years as a Flamenco and Spanish dancer she studied and performed Flamenco and Spanish dance with Lili del Castillo, Pablo Rodarte, Eva Enciñias-Sandoval and María Benítez. She also studied and performed Argentine tango with Michael Walker and Julio Balmaceda. Her love of history led her to conduct research on Flamenco in Spain where she also studied singing with Manuel Gines. She performs and conducts lecture/demonstrations on the history of Flamenco, Spanish Dance, and Argentine Tango and currently serves as the Deputy State Historian for our great state of New Mexico.
ABOUT THE GUITARIST
Luis Campos has been a part of the New Mexico flamenco scene since its earliest beginnings. He received a Bachelor´s Degree from Cuban born Maestro Héctor Garcìa at the University of New Mexico 1976. He and Nicolasa Chávez collaborated with Niño David in creating a program of Flamenco Villancicos (Flamenco Christmas songs) and he and Nicolasa have done a number of duet concerts on the same theme as well as lecture demonstrations on the villancicos, flamenco in general and its appearance and impact on our state of New Mexico.