Incendio

If you know San Luis Obispo, you probably know the SLO Farmer’s market on Thursday nights. It’s a huge, open air market that takes up all of Higuera Street with produce stalls (of course!), music, baubles and beads, colorful clothing, fattening food, political causes, and The Grim Fellow. The Grim Fellow is the name I’ve given to a dour-looking man who silently walks Higuera with an enormous, hand-lettered sign proclaiming the wages of sin. Or something like that; oddly, I’ve never stopped to read the sign carefully. But I digress.

What I really want to talk about is, naturally, music. SLO Farmer’s Market has always had at least one really great band playing each Thurs. Back in early 2000s, I discovered Incendio. They’re a mix of World Fusion Flamenco with strong Eastern and jazz influences. Incendio is composed of guitarist Liza Carbe, keyboardist/guitarist Jean-Pierre Durand, and composer/guitarist Jim Stubblefield. The band’s name means “fire” in Italian, a nod to Carbé’s Sicilian-American upbringing.

All three members worked on projects before starting Incendio. Durand and Carbe did music for T.V. (JAG, Sister Sister, Entertainment Tonight). Stubblefield worked with famed Kuwaiti singer Waleed Hamad during the early ’90s. Carbe has performed with such acclaimed artists as Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham, Santana’s Leon Patillo, and folksinger Sara Hickman.

Incendio remains one of my all time favorite groups. The last few times I’ve been to Farmer’s Market, I haven’t seen them, so I wonder if they still play SLO. They are amazing live performers, so check out their website for tour dates, and catch a show if you can. For now, I want to share a Tune Bitez Incendio Playlist.

Tags: Flamenco, fusion, Incendio, music, Nuevo Flamenco, playlist, San Luis Obispo, SLO, Tune Bitez, World Music

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