Virtual Travel: ¡ ESPANA !

NOW THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!

by Janice Van Cleve

Virtual Travel: ¡ ESPANA ! is going to be at "total experience" tour of Spain. Not only do we have 23 top end Spanish wines and a full meal served in courses throughout the evening, we have a stunning program of first class entertainment.

Classical Spanish Guitarist

Patricio Contreras is a classical Spanish guitarist who calls Seattle home. He plays at concerts and wine gatherings all over the Pacific Northwest and has been featured most recently at the Herbfarm. In fact, he agreed to come
play a few numbers for us as he is performing at the Herb Farm that night.

Flamenco Dancer
Ana Montes is known as one of the West Coast's foremost female flamenco dancers. Her flamenco studies started in Sevilla where she studied under Angelita Vargas and José Galván. She danced professionally in Spain, Europe and Mexico for 7 years, including the Ballet Español del Camborio, the Ballet Español de Fernando Romero in Madrid, and at El Burrero Peña Flamenca in Madrid. She has been acclaimed as brilliant and charismatic, moving with grace and elegance, especially the upper torso, arms and hands which so defines the female flamenco dancer, yet at the same time containing that tension and passion which makes flamenco so exciting. Ana currently teaches and produces student shows out of her studio Flamenco Danzarte in downtown Seattle.

Classical Singer
Rosa Duarte is a young, talented soprano and a rising star in Spanish classical singing. Rosa is a native of Spain, where she studied at the Conservatory of Guadalajara, worked with several opera companies, and performed throughout Spain and Europe with the chamber music Sebastian Duron. Among her most recent performances have been Spanish Latin America concerts at the Convention Center (downtown Seattle) and at the University of Washington sponsored by the Center for Spanish Studies, the Division of Spanish and Portuguese studies, and the Education Office of the Embassy of Spain.

Concert Pianist
Steve Metzler, who was trained as a concert pianist, is today the president
of Classical Grands, the Northwest distributor of Bluethner, Foerster, and
Estonia Old World grand pianos. He studied piano at the University of
Washington School of Music and he has played in concert with the Seattle
Symphony (as a Brechemin Scholarship winner), the Bellevue Philharmonic and the UW Orchestra. He'll be performing Beethoven's Concerto in C Major at the Bürklin-Wolf Festival in Germany this summer.

Steve is also president of Classical Wines, importer of the wines for Virtual Travel: ¡ ESPANA !. Spain became the focus of Stephen's life when he met and married Almudena de Llaguno, who formerly worked for the Spanish Consulate. Almudena is very connected to the Spanish community in Seattle and she gave us many of the leads which resulted the spectacular array of talent we will be presenting at Virtual Travel: ¡ ESPANA !

Thanks for Helping
In addition, we are very grateful for the generous support of the Spanish
Embassy and the commercial offices of Foods From Spain in New York. They have provided maps and information on the Spanish wine growing regions, posters and flags, and the pennants which will gracefully decorate the hall at Hollywood Schoolhouse for this special Enological Society event.

Make Your Reservation Today
Put March 29th on your calendars and buy your tickets today. Visit the
Society Web site at www.enosoc.org and print out the ticket reservation form. Send it with your check to Michael Hatch, Spanish Wine Festival, 1009 North 42 Street, Seattle, WA 98103. Advance ticket sales only; no tickets will be sold at the door.

You asked for a major Society event on the eastside and we've gone all out
to provide a truly spectacular "total experience" trip to Spain for you.
Vamos a la fiesta!

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