Carlos Núñez

I have been already looking forward to February 26th for already quite a long time. After all, Carlos Núñez would have a gig round the corner, one of my favourite musicians for already more than 10 years.
Of course i have pre-ordered the tickets long before because i wanted to make sure that i will have seats in this cosy venue: the "house of culture" in Waldkraiburg (somewhere in eastern Bavaria). Due to the fact that i have had already the honour to watch Carlos and his band in action - last time at a big festival - i chose this small venue because i hoped for a more intimate atmosphere. And i haven't been disappointed...! ;)


(The entrance of the house of culture)

In fact we found the house of culture a modern venue and the hall where the concert was to take place - the small one - was devided into two areas for the audience: in front of the stage were several round bistro-tables where people could sit and drink and in the rear were a couple of rows of chairs. I immediately fell in love with the ambiance!
But before entering the hall, i had to solve a tiny problem: i left my tickets at home in Innsbruck! Yes, it was all embarassing and vexing, but it came to my mind only when i already was in train to Salzburg... But fortunately i had a call to the ticket office - which was fortunately belonging to the venue itself - and the chief told me that i would not be necessary to drive back to Innsbruck to get the tickets but they were actually reserved on my name and i only would have to identify myself. And so it all went ok, although i had an anxious feeling until i took my seat in the audience...


(My ticket - remaining untouched forever...)

And i must admit that we maybe had the best seats in the whole audience, as far as you don't like to sit in the first row, to count the artist's vibrissae...:



Since we sat first row, a little elevated behind the mixer's desk, we perfectly saw everything. Meanwhile Carlos talks a little german as well - even if he still needs to read his notes in additon.
This time Carlos Núñez' tour had the name Celtic Flamenco, and so they played a gorgeous mixture of various celtic-influenced music, mainly from Galicia of course, but full of flamenco-elements, contributed by flamenco-guitarrist Victor Romero. And - maybe due to the fact that the band has just come back from a trip to Cuba - they played some cuban rumbas and i even had the chance to watch Xurxo (the drummer and Carlos' brother) on congas! He has also improved since the last time i saw him. The new girl in the band also did a great job, although i must confess, i missed Begoña Riobó - but this is only because i really liked her very much!



In the second part people were more enthusiastic and started to sing along (mainly me, but i simply cannot resist "Para Vigo me voy") and in the end the audience was dancing and celebrating a big party (only the half of it, because the other ones were elderly people, but it was fuuun!). Carlos and his band had to come back on stage several times because the audience simply didn't want to stop dancing and yelling. I haven't actually expected to end up partying in a little venue in a little town somewhere in Bavaria with Carlos Núñez shaking hands, but as life is full of surprises, i was very happy to have been there.