WHEN: Saturday, March 21, 2026 @ 7:00 PM (Doors @ 6:30 PM) WHERE: Meetinghouse Arts, 40 Main St., Freeport, ME 04032 Celebrating both the deep-rooted traditions and the evolving contemporary expressions Flamenco. $25 in Advance | $30 at the Door | $15 Students Financial barriers shouldn’t prevent anyone from experiencing the arts. Please know that our Arts Access Fund is available to help ensure everyone can attend. FLOR (Flamenco & Its Origins) is Maine’s first and only nonprofit organization dedicated to flamenco. FLOR’s mission is to foster artistic, cultural, and community stewardship through the art of flamenco. The Cuadro Flamenco—FLOR’s professional ensemble—brings together the essential elements of flamenco: guitar, dance, and song. The ensemble celebrates both the deep-rooted traditions and the evolving contemporary expressions of the art form, with a focus on the interplay between these elements and their shared capacity for soulful expression. Learn more about FLOR Flamenco here!Lindsey Bourassa, Principal Dancer and Director of FLORLindsey is a flamenco dancer, choreographer, teacher, and community builder. She is the founding-director of Lindsey Bourassa Flamenco, co-founder of Olas Music and Dance, and founding executive and artistic director of FLOR. Lindsey received her Master of Flamencology Degree from Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) in 2019 and her Certificate of Professionalization in Flamenco Arts at El Centro de Arte y Flamenco de Sevilla (Seville, Spain) in 2012. She has dedicated herself to the study of flamenco since 2004, predominantly in Sevilla, Spain. Having performed and taught in Spain and throughout New England, she has now settled in her home state of Maine, where her heart feels full to be creating and cultivating Maine’s first prominent and growing flamenco community. Her work on all fronts is inspired by the belief that art ignites magic, cultivates connection, uplifts diverse and uncensored stories, and fosters stewardship of each other and the earth.Behzad Habibzai, Principal GuitaristBehzad is a music composer and flamenco guitarist who grew up in Portland, Maine. He began playing drums and classical percussion at 10, maintaining a busy schedule performing orchestral, jazz, and punk rock, at rock clubs and symphony halls. At 14 he discovered flamenco guitar, going on to perform with several international artists. Behzad composes and produces flamenco and orchestral music for digital streaming, films, and documentaries. Behzad often collaborates with his wife, Meghan Pilar Habibzai. Megan Keogh, Dancer Megan has performed throughout New England as a dancer with Olas Music and Dance since 2008, with Lindsey Bourassa Flamenco since 2017, and now with FLOR Cuadro Flamenco since its start in 2025. She is trained in ballet, modern, contemporary and flamenco and began dancing at age ten with Festival Ballet Providence through 1996. She is the co-founder and creative director at Pixels...
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