Seattle-based Flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes will dance in Rayn: Flamenco for a New World.

Seattle-based Flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes will dance in Rayn: Flamenco for a New World.

Flamenco performances set on Peninsula

A special flamenco performance will come to Port Townsend and Sequim this weekend.

“Rayn: Flamenco for a New World” will be at the Palindrome at the Eaglemount Winery in Port Townsend on Saturday and in the Gardiner Community Center in Gardiner on Sunday.

The Port Townsend concert with be at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Palindrome at 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road.

The Gardiner concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Gardiner Community Center at 980 Old Gardiner Road.

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Tickets are $27 for general admission, $40 for VIP seating, $18 for students and $12 for children. They are available at www.eventbrite.com.

Rayn is a unique blend of authentic Spanish flamenco music and dance. These concerts are part of an extensive tour.

Seattle-based flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes and singer/multi-instrumentalist Diego Amador Jr., direct from Seville, will present the concert.

Fuentes’ latest production is a new beginning for her. She has designed new costumes, set new choreography and had a new dance floor constructed for this tour. Rayn symbolizes the fresh new start that comes after substantial rainfall while also paying homage to Fuentes’ Seattle roots.

Fuentes was born in Seattle to parents of Puerto Rican and Irish ancestry. She considers flamenco a lifelong study, an artistic journey she began in her late teens that continues to this day. She has studied with such flamenco artists as Guadiana, Joaquin Grilo, Eva Yerbabuena, El Farru and Isabel Bayon. Fuentes attributes her formation as an artist to her most significant mentor, Maestra Sara de Luis.

Accompanied by guest artists, Fuentes tours the West Coast regularly, bringing audiences authentic flamenco performance art, “often performing for communities that would otherwise be unable to enjoy this unique art form,” according to a press release.

Amador was born into flamenco royalty. His father is the celebrated flamenco pianist/composer Diego Amador and his uncles are Rafael and Raimundo Amador (Pata Negra). He recently released his first full-length album, Presente en el Tiempo.

From a very young age, he began performing and touring with some of Spain’s top flamenco artists, including Remedios Amaya, La Susi, Lole Montoya, Farruquito and Joaquín Cortés. He has also worked alongside jazz greats such as Pat Metheny, Bireli Lagrene and Charlie Haden. Known mainly as a flamenco singer, he also plays guitar, piano and percussion.

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