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SPANISH CLASSES SUSPENDED

We are suspending all of our Spanish and salsa classes for the time being, in light of the Coronavirus outbreak.  Students of Spanish have two classes to complete in their courses, and these classes will be taught whenever things return to some kind of normality. 

FELIP CARBONELL AND THE GREAT SPANISH POETS

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On Saturday the 7 th March 2020, exactly two years after the start of this project, singer songwriter and composer, Felip Carbonell will deliver chapter four of his series of concerts dedicated to the Hispanic poets and songwriters. Having performed three unique concerts prior to this, La Nueva Trova Cubana (#1), Chile y Argentina (#2) and Boleros de Mexico y Cuba (#3) , Felip will introduce us this time to the poetry of The Great Spanish Poets of the 20 th Century . The big names of Antonio Machado, Rafael Alberti and Federico García Lorca have always attracted a plethora of songwriters and composers from different parts of the world to explore their poems and compose music for them.  This concert will feature a small selection of the works of these and other poets -all of them in Spanish - put to music by mainly Joan Manuel Serrat and Paco Ibáñez , two of the Spanish songwriters that influenced Felip’s early years as a musician. The relaxed format of this co