03 Sep “Domingos de Vermut y Potaje” | Maui

FUNDarte presents Domingos de Vermut y Potaje, by Maui, on November 5th at 2:00 p.m. at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium as part of its FL.Flamenco series.

FL.Flamenco continues FUNDarte’s series dedicated to the Spanish-born genre, presenting a splendidly diverse range of performances, including the latest in traditional and radically contemporary flamenco forms performed by Spain’s most notable and risk-taking artists.

About

“Es la hora del vermut” (“It’s vermouth time”) is an elegant expression and an excellent excuse to provoke a meeting, an inspiration, laughs an easiness, and an unparalleled “whet your appetite”. There is no more sublime moment than tasting the bittersweetness of this elixir. Dalí, Oprah Winfrey, Frank Sinatra, or your grandfather knew it well.

And there is right vermouth without its subsequent aperitif…

Lighting stoves, turning off stress, apron on, tools prepared, ladle at hand…

Let the ceremony begin!

The show that Maui proposes is a mix of theater, music, repentismo, pellizco, and spoken word, using the potaje as the protagonist. We will begin by preparing the body with vermouth; then the singer-actor will cook live this traditional dish from Utrera, her town, her house. To help her in this task, she receives a guest in her kitchen who provides the ideal seasoning for this magic potion every Sunday. Artists such as Antonio Carmona, La Mari from Chambao, Martirio, Javier Ruibal, Antonio Canales, among many others, have already cooked alongside Maui.

This time Maui has invited Paco Aguilera, Embajador Mundial de la Rumba Catalana.

In a moment, the theater will be impregnated with an aroma that is an ole tu alé, of potaje! “Domingos de Vermut y Potaje” is a show that will culminate in the stalls, where spectators and artists come together around the stew to recreate those very gypsy moments where jokes, cante, pataíta, a guitar, and the most authentic truth, go hand in hand naturally. The interaction with the public, the improvisation, and the wit will make this experience as authentic as it is unrepeatable.

Magic happens around the pot; the compass is born, the duende gets entangled, and beyond being some beans made with love, potaje is always an ideal potion for the party; Fernanda and Bernarda de Utrera, El Perrate, Gaspar and the great Bambino, knew about it well.

Maui guides us in the experience of “Domingos de Vermut y Potaje” (“Sundays of Vermouth and Stew”); dress up and come live it, then you will only have one option, take a nap, yes, but with a smile on your face.

About the Artist: 

María Luisa Ramírez, Maui, for art. Born in Utrera (Seville), niece of the legendary Bambino and daughter of the guitarist and composer Miguel Ramírez (Los Centellas) grew up in a pure flamenco environment around a pot of potaje, a guitar, and a lot of compás. At the age of 18, she moved to Granada to study cello, and there she began to collaborate with different groups until she decided to set up her own, Maui y Los Sirénidos, with which she published three records and won multiple awards, such as the 2009 UFI Award for Best flamenco album. After her physical and spiritual move from her beloved Granada to Madrid, she published her first work as Maui, “Viaje Interior” (“Inner Journey”). But she is not satisfied with just songs, and in 2016 she began his journey through dramatized flamenco, first with the show “Soy una feria”, and later in 2018 with “Domingos de Vermut y Potaje”, still running with notable success and long-haul visions.

In January 2019, she published a new album, “Por Arte de Magia”, a work full of strength and sensitivity in equal parts, with Fernando Illán in production, collaborations like the masterful verses of Chipi from La Canalla, the flute of maestro Jorge Pardo, the voice of the gypsy sorcerer Antonio Carmona and the cante and salt of the magician of the compass Tomasito.

Sixteen years of wanderings on the stage and five albums to her credit endorse this unique artist’s career, who has been carving a curious path of albero and blue poppies. Far from any known definition, people have come to say that she is the Björk of Utrera, the Lady Gaga of flamenco, the Woody Allen of the song, a diva of humor with compás, a singer-actor… but she is simply Maui, one of a kind in her way of composing, her peculiar aesthetics and her ways on stage.

What: Domingos de Vermut y Potaje by Maui

When: Sunday, November 5th, at 2:00 p.m.

Where: On.Stage Black Box at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium (2901 W Flager St, Miami, FL 33135)

Prices: Standard Admission – $30 / Discounts: Senior/Student – $25 / Accessible/ Group (≥10) – $20

Tickets: www.miamidadecountyauditorium.org

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