Mosaics, Harry Owen and Veronica Maguire, Alma de Espana

Mozaico Flamenco presents "MOSAICS" which documents the History of Flamenco in Vancouver with important flamenco personalities and mentors who shaped the artistic landscape of Vancouver Flamenco. This is a biography of Vancouverite, Harry Owen, flamenco guitarist, who is one of Vancouver's pioneers of flamenco being one of the first flamenco guitarists from 1965. He played solo flamenco guitar in the restaurants in the late 1960s and worked with Spanish cantaores, Jose Lara (migrated to Vancouver from Madrid, arrived in 1969) and Angel Romero (migrated from Puertollano, arrived in 1970) and started the first Cuadro in 1973. Harry's passion for flamenco led him on a life's pursuit of flamenco studying in Spain, to Toronto where he ultimately met his wife and bailaora, Veronica Maguire. This documentary is also the biography of Ontario bailaora, Veronica Maguire, whose journey in flamenco with Harry led her to British Colombia where they founded ALMA DE ESPANA and nurtured countless flamenco afficionados in Victoria, BC since 1989.
This series is brought to you by the DIGITAL NOW 2022 initiative of the Strategic Funds Program, Canada Council for the Arts #bringingtheartstolife.
We gratefully acknowledge that we are filming in Victoria, British Colombia, Canada which is the unceded traditional territories of the Lkwungen (Lekwungen) people, known today as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.
Kasandra Lea, documentarian
Lia Grainger, video editor
www.mozaicoflamenco.com
Background: Vancouver Flamenco as an art form began in the 1950s with an Argentine-Spanish bailarin named Angel Monzon, moving through the 1960s with up and coming flamenco guitarists Victor Kolstee and Harry Owen, and with the arrival of Spanish cantaores Jose Lara in 1967 and Angel Romero in 1970. The period we are documenting in a series of 5 MOSAICS documentaries are of maestros since the 1980s including Gerardo Alcala and Peter Mole, flamenco guitarists, and also flamenco dancers, Oscar Nieto, Rosario Ancer and Veronica Maguire.
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