Isla Flamenca

Come to Heaven Scent Bistro for well-priced food, drinks and a pool table. Koha to see this great duo: Isla Flamenca.

Isla Flamenca debuted in July 2018. In a short time, the band has become something a bit different in the Auckland music scene: an instrumental group with strong, traditional Flamenco roots. They play everything from simple dances like Sevillanas and Rumba to important Flamenco forms like Alegrías and Bulerías. Their sound is traditional Flamenco but with a modern rhythmical tinge that borrows from jazz and Cuban music.

Ian Sinclair has spent a lifetime studying this highly rhythmical Spanish music. He is a pupil and friend of flamenco maestro Juan del Gastor of Seville. He has written most of the instrumental music for Isla Flamenca.

Steve Cournane is a drummer and composer who began playing in Flying Nun bands in 1984. In 2007 he moved to Lima, Peru, where he lived as a musician and studied the traditional Afro-Peruvian cajon for seven years.

Admission is free - koha appreciated.