- HAYMAH -

​ORIGINAL NAME OF THE HUTS OF THE NOMADS IN THE DESERT.
WE, BEING TRAVELLING NOMADS THROUGH AND BECAUSE OF OUR MUSIC, FIND IN FLAMENCO OUR "HAYMAH" AND A SAFE PLACE, INVITING THE PUBLIC TO ACCOMPANY AND ENJOY THE MUSIC TOGETHER.

"Haymah" is a project that was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 2015 as a result of the fusion of the "Vicente José Santiago Band" and "Flamenco Verkeerd". They are musically influenced by guitar players like Paco de Lucía, Tomatito, Vicente Amigo or Antonio Rey and many flamenco singers and other artists. Their music mixes the old flamenco tradition with newer elements, like for example the flute or more uncommon percussion instruments.

Haymah is the original name of the huts of the nomads in the desert. We, being travelling nomads through and because of our music, find in flamenco our "haymah" and a safe place, inviting the public to accompany and enjoy the music together.

Haymah is a flexible group that also searches for interesting ways to perform with other musicians, flamenco singers or dancers. They use the capacities of every musician in many different ways: solos, duos and trios of different members are also part of the show, for example, and at times the flute plays the role of a flamenco singer.

The band members are:

Vicente José Santiago (guitar)

Vicente Santiago is a Spanish flamenco guitar player based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After studying classical guitar at the Conservatory of Cartagena, he entered the Superior Conservatory Rafael Orozco in Cordoba to specialize in flamenco guitar with some of the most important flamenco players in Spain, such as Manolo Franco and Nino de Pura.
In 2012 he received a scholarship to study for one year at Codarts, Rotterdam with the master of flamenco, Paco Peña where he comes back in 2015 to begin his Master degree, in order to enrich his musical language besides Flamenco, studying Jazz and World music. He is currently a member of the Netherlands based bands, Tianguis, Haymah, Tierra Libre, Mexitanos and SomosDos Duo.

Jur Vermijs (guitar)

Jur started playing guitar at the age of 9 and played in various bands as a teenager. At the age of 17 he discovered flamenco and shortly after he entered the Conservatory of Rotterdam to study flamenco guitar with Paco Peña.
During his studies he also spent a year living in Córdoba and he graduated in 2015. For years now he has been playing with different groups, as a soloist or accompanying.

Irene Gabarrón (flute)

Irene Gabarron (Murcia, Spain) has studied Bachelor and Master of Music in Rotterdams Conservatory (CODARTS). She is the first flute of the orchestra Camerata Rotterdam and she has collaborated with prestigious orchestras as Rotterdam Philarmonic Orkest, Laurens Bach Orkest and Rotterdam Ensemble. As chamber music player Irene has a long trajectory with different groups. Now she is inmersed in her present group “Scherzando Trio” with clarinet and piano.

Besides her classical experience, during the last years of her musical education, she started to be more interested in the music of her roots, Flamenco. In Rotterdam she has attended masterclasses from such an important flamenco artists as Arcangel, Miguel Angel Cortes, David Peña Dorantes, Diego Amador, Diego del Morao, Diego Carrasco or musicologist Faustino Núñez.

Currently she is developing and enriching her style through the flamenco and folkloric music, being part of the bands “Haymah” and "Mexitanos", resident in Rotterdam, and collaborating in many other projects both in Holland and Spain.

Javier Infestas (percussion)

Javier Infestas Maderuelo (Salamanca, Spain) started playing percussion at the early age of 8, when he began his studies of classical percussion in the Elementary Conservatoy of Salamanca, and continued with his studies at the “Conservatorio Superior de Salamanca” where he obtains in 2008 the Bachelor in Classical Percussion. During all this time he played in several young Orchestras and also collaborated with some professional Orchestras.

Always he combined his studies of classical music with the passion for folkloric music, getting involved in different proyects as rock bands, flamenco gruops or percussion ensembles.

From 2008 he moved to Rotterdam (The Netherlands), to expand his studies in classical percussion, but after 6 months he decided to give a new path in his career and he focused in the folkloric music, specially in Flamenco, Latin and Brazilian music, playing as member of many projects, as Buyakano, Los Paja Brava, Ti-an-guis, Haymah, Flamenco Verkeerd, etc, playing in many theaters and festivals such as North Sea Jazz Festival, Nacht van de Kaap or Bevrijdingsfestival Groningen.