Eva Tells Us All About Jerez, and What's Next for Yjastros and NIF
Hi, my name is Eva Encinias. I just got back a week ago from our fantastic experience in Jerez.
We had lots of Albuquerque support, wonderful people that have followed us for years and wanted to be part of it. So we had some fantastic lunches and tours with Mecca. And then of course, there were endless performances that we saw up to four performances, sometimes in a day.
The crowning event was seeing Yjastros perform at Museos de Atalya in Jerez, and it was truly such a moving experience for us to see that come about after so many years, and so much hard work from so many people.
So it was really fantastic, and everybody came back totally exhausted, but really excited about what's to come in the future.
My favorite part? Wow. Ah, you know, I think the favorite part was that we were all there together. Because most of us have been to Spain, some of us many times. But for all of us to be together, there were literally 40 of us, maybe 50 of us from Albuquerque. They were there all together. And it was just such a special time for all of us to be able to go to see shows, and go to lunch and go shopping, and all of those things that we love to do, but do it together.
Well, what is next, the festival is right around the corner. And you know being at that festival, which is a fantastic festival. It makes me so proud of the work that we're doing here and the scope and the range of performances that we're going to be showing in our festival.
It’s just sort of an affirmation that the work that we're doing here, on the other side of the ocean very, very far away from Spain is respected and appreciated by our own community, but as well by the community in Spain who really appreciate our effort and the hard work that we do to be able to produce their work.
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Watch Yjastros Perform “Xicano Power” @ FFABQ36
Yjastros performing “Xicano Power” concert at Festival de Jerez • photos by Rafael Manjavacas
