Flamenco guitarist, composer, and performer Gary Meyers didn’t grow up immersed in the exotic rhythms of Andalusia, but he intuitively taps into the Spanish spirit to perform this storied traditional music with reverence and dazzling virtuosity. The Castle Rock, Colorado-based artist’s story is how a lifelong musician who played Van Halen-style electric guitar heard a friend play flamenco, and then experienced a revelation that sent him on a transformative artistic adventure. Today, Gary has emerged an in-demand musician, composer, and performer with over a thousand flamenco gigs under his belt, including restaurant residencies, corporate performances, private parties, festivals, weddings, radio and television appearances, wine tastings gigs, art shows, coffee shops, benefits, and hotel performances. He playfully calls his music platform and brand, “Dirty Flamenco,” humbly acknowledging he is a Westerner playing a music near and dear to the heart of Andalusia, Spain, and beyond. Gary performs and records both time-honored, and boldly progressive flamenco styles. To date, under the Dirty Flamenco banner, Gary has released an album of traditional guitar flamenco. His upcoming album, Desperado’s Shade, is an imaginatively modern Spanish Rumba album a la Jesse Cook and Ottmar Liebert. Dirty Flamenco appeals to fans of world music, guitar enthusiasts, talent buyers looking for elegant solo guitar and group performers, and music supervisors for film and TV placements. Gary’s sultry musicality has garnered favorable comparisons to contemporary artists such as Jesse Cook, Johannes Linstead, Gipsy Kings, Ottmar Liebert, and Sabicas. Live, Gary is an intuitive performer with a command of flamenco and rhumba traditions who eases between set melodies and improvisatory flights of fancy to heighten the entertainment experience. For over 10 years, Gary studied flamenco with the preeminent Maestro Rene Heredia—the man credited with bringing flamenco to Colorado in the 1960s—and he also performed in Heredia’s group. Gary has the distinction of being Royal Caribbean/Celebrity Cruise Line’s first solo guitarist ever hired. He performed solo gipsy flamenco on the Celebrity Solstice throughout the Mediterranean (Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Malta, France, Montenegro, Greece, Corsica, Portugal, Tenerife, Turkey) where he passed muster performing this sacred music for European audiences who grew up with it. Gary has been contacted twice by America’s Got Talent for two separate private auditions. He performs regularly at various venues throughout Colorado and Arizona.