

THE GIPSY KINGS
Sunday, February 18 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $68.00, $56.00, $46.00
Over the years the Gipsy Kings—whose members hail from the gypsy settlements in Arles and
Montpelier in the south of France—have included singers and guitarists from the Reyes (Canut,
Nicolas, Pablo and Patchai) and Baliardo families (Diego, Paco and Tonino). Lead singer Nicolas
Reyes is the son of famed Flamenco singer José Reyes, who, with Manitas de Plata, sold millions
of records in the 1960s and 70s. The band’s vigorous guitar work and passionate vocals are the
trademarks of an indigenous musical tradition known as “rumba flamenca.�