Casi Flamenco - concert

The Casi Flamenco takes the audience through a series of flamenco tunes, including the latest flamenco "hits". The group was formed 15 years ago by young people with a long history of flamenco and has been a regular on the Budapest flamenco scene ever since.
Members
- Baklanov Szandra - cajon, vocals
- Bózsa Anikó - vocals, palmas
- Róbert Kuszinger - vocals
- Papirnyik Norbert - guitar
- Váncza Dominika Lívia - vocals, palmas

Casi Flamenco was formed at about the same time as the flamenco music and dance culture became known in Hungary, when the first flamenco clubs were organized in Budapest in the early 2000s and the genre became more and more popular among the general public. The founding members, Norbert Papirnyik (guitar) and Róbert Kuszinger (vocals), were self-taught and have been an integral part of the Hungarian flamenco music scene ever since. The composition of the band has changed frequently over the past twenty years, and the current line-up has been in place since 2017. While the band's musical work before 2017 was dominated by the pure (Spanish: puro) flamenco music genres (so-called "puro"), the band has been playing the flamenco music genre for the last twenty-five years. While in the last years the main intention was to present the flamenco music (palos) as authentically as possible, with the vocal voice of Róbert Kuszinger in the classical, original line-up - vocals, guitar, taps (palmas), dance - in recent years their musical repertoire has become more colourful and their performance style more playful, opening up to fusion experiments in the direction of flamenco world music and pop. This is largely due to the arrival of the cajon, a rhythm instrument that is now obligatory in flamenco ensembles, but not strictly speaking authentic, and the introduction of female vocals, later as a vocal instrument in their own right. Szandra Baklanov (cajon, vocals, claps), Anikó Bózsa (claps, vocals) and Lívia Váncza Dominika (vocals, claps) were drawn to the genre from a dance background, but in order to get to know its world as complexly as possible, they soon became interested in the different ways of cultivating flamenco music. Dominika Lívia Váncza is a singer with a large repertoire, Szandra Baklanov learned the cajon in Spain and Anikó Bózsa is a palmera who is often employed in this country. Their meeting with each other and with the Casi Flamenco ensemble brought a renewal of the band. The repertoire for the stage of the Liszt Institute includes more serious music inherited from the "original" line-up, but the backbone of the concert will be lighter flamenco arrangements and original compositions.