Boleros at the Peña Flamenca

JIMENA The Peña Flamenca is opening to music other than Flamenco. Last time it was Flamenco/Jazz (and very successful it was, too), so this time it is boleros (Saturday, February 12, from 10.30pm). So what's a bolero? we hear you ask. As defined by Wikipedia: "The bolero is a 3/4 dance that originated in Spain in the late 18th century, a combination of the contradanza and the sevillana. Dancer Sebastiano Carezo is credited with inventing the dance in 1780. It is danced by either a soloist or a couple. It is in a moderately slow tempo and is performed to music which is sung and accompanied by castanets and guitars with lyrics of five to seven syllables in each of four lines per verse. It is in triple time and usually has a triplet on the second beat of each bar." Go on, give it a try...