Andrea Salcedo's Guitar Flamenco Concert

Andrea Salcedo, the first female flamenco guitarist from Mexico, will delight everyone this Thursday, March 10 with her guitar performing a Flamenco Concert at the Mexican Cultural Institute. Attendance is free but donations are welcome, your contributions will be used entirely to support the artist and the local artistic community.

Ms. Salcedo is a native of Jalisco, Mexico. She grew up in Chicago where she arrived at the age of 10 years old. Currently, she is based in Madrid, Spain.

She is her home country and is considered an international reference by the Spanish newspaper El Pais. Andreaa graduated with honors from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL where she received her bachelor’s in Music Performance in Classical Guitar studying under Maestro Fareed Haque. She also received an Associate Degree in Arts at Morton College in Cicero, IL, and graduated from Merit School of Music in Chicago.

She started her flamenco guitar studies at the age of 16 with Spanish teacher Jesus de Araceli, during his Chicago residence with the company Soul & Duende founded by dancer and choreographer Azucena Vega. Andrea is an artist in residence at the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago. She has studied in Spain at the “Cristina Heeren Foundation of Flamenco Art” with Eduardo Rebollar, master classes at the “Guitar Festival of Cordoba” with Manolo Sanlúcar, Juan Manuel Cañizares y Daniel Navarro “Niño de Pura”, and in Madrid with Aquilino Jiménez “El Entri”.

Throughout her artistic career, she has performed at important venues and festivals in Mexico, Spain, The United States, Colombia, The Czech Republic, and China.

In March 2019, she traveled to Madrid, Spain to continue her studies and career as a guitarist. She made her artistic debut in Spain at the “Ellas Crean Festival 2019.” She also participated at the festivals “Suma Flamenca 2020”, “Ellas Crean Festival 2021” in a collaboration with jazz musicians Trinidad Jimenez and Ernesto Aurignac, “Jerez Off Festival 2021”, and the “Flamenco Joven Festival 2021” in Madrid. Andrea also performed at the “Arles Flamenco Festival” in France in August 2021.

Currently, Andrea is studying her third year of advanced studies at the Casa Patas Flamenco Conservatory. She attended the prestigious program “New Skills 4 New Artists” at the Conservatory Reina Sofia, in collaboration with the Erasmus program from the European Union, the Cork Institute of Technology in Ireland, and the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Belgium. She also studied the course “El Flamenco, un universo estético multidisciplinar” organized by the University of Córdoba, under the direction of David Pino.

Andrea is recording her first album “Fuente y Cauce de la Guitarra Flamenca”, with the renowned guitarist and producer Jesus de Rosario.