Flamenco
Paloma Rodriguez
A finger snap. A whole new direction
Paloma brings Sephardic roots and flamenco guitar to the Sharpies. She hears a kinship between klezmer and flamenco and wants everyone else to feel it.
At OyPizza’s talent evening, her guitar answers Oksana’s violin in Tumbalalaika. When a couple misses the end of Forever, Paloma gives them one last chord to finish their turn. She makes room for what happens around the music.
Later, Ethan gives Hava Nagila a beat nobody can dance to. Paloma asks whether they are celebrating or escaping; he simplifies, and the twins find a step. At the Times Square final, her guitar leaves space for Ethan’s clarinet. The arrangement works because they can hear one another.
