Stamp your feet; a festival of flamenco.('Flamenco Festival')

Flamenco is one of a number of great lyric forms (jazz, tap, tango, and others) that grew up not in the official venues -- the church, the court -- but in the bars and the whorehouses. According to the historian Timothy Mitchell, flamenco owes its development, in large measure, to private music parties put on by wealthy playboys in southern Spain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These were not genteel gatherings. One grandee, Mitchell reports, "liked to preside over a group of artists and three or four prostitutes, locked up in a room together for several days with two or three cases of wine, a ham, a bucket, and a mattress." The artists were poor gypsies, and ...