Flamenco Soul Project Heats up the Arsenal Center with Music and Dancing

The weather is heating up and so is the entertainment at the Arsenal Center for the Arts. On Monday, June 25, Spanish composer-producer Javier Limón will lead a talented ensemble of international musicians for a night of flamenco music and dance.

The Flamenco Soul Project offers an up-close look at the flamenco and Latin sounds coming from Spain and the Americas. The show follows the hundred-year evolution of flamenco, first delving into the music's oldest and most original styles, eventually shifting to the experimental modes of today, and finally offering a preview of flamenco’s future.

This project is under the direction of Javier Limón, a Grammy Award winner and seven-time Latin Grammy Award winner. Limón is the artistic director of Berklee College’s Mediterranean Music Institute in Valencia, Spain as well as a 2012 artist-in-residence at Berklee in Boston.

Limón plays guitar in the show and is joined on stage by prominent artists including Boston-born dancer Nino de Los Reyes and Puerto Rican native and flautist Jeremy de Jesus, among others.

“This is a new direction flamenco is taking and is performed by young, unique, talented musicians and a dancer,” says Limón. “It’s a concert where dance is incorporated like another instrument.  Dance is used as if it were a musical instrument.”

The performance at the Arsenal Center will be the fourth stop on this tour which kicks off Friday night in New York City at the B.B. King Blues Jazz Bar.  Additional shows will take place in Washington, D.C., at the Howard Theatre on Saturday, and in Baltimore at the Soundstage on Sunday. Monday’s show at the Arsenal Center for the Arts wraps up a busy weekend tour.

“I am grateful we have the opportunity to perform with this amazing group of young artists and to share the unique flamenco experience with U.S. audiences. I am very excited about this project and I believe this small tour will only be the beginning of many more shows to come,” says Limón. 

Monday night’s Flamenco Soul Project starts at 8 p.m. in the Arsenal Center’s Charles Mosesian Theater. Tickets are $25 plus fees, and may be purchased online or by calling the box office at 617-923-8487. For more information, visit the Arsenal Center's website.