Potaje has played in a great variety of venues, including the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, American Festival of San Jose, Performing Arts Center of Monterey, San Jose Jazz Festival, Mosconi Center and The Fillmore in San Francisco, Julia Morgan Theater in Berkeley, Performing Arts Series of San Jose, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley. In addition, Potaje toured Spain in 2001. The ensemble has also been involved in educational workshops for children with "Adventurtes in Music", an educational program of the San Francisco Symphony, and Young Audiences of the Bay Area, an arts organization that brings artist to schools. Potaje has a CD entitled "Charanga Flamenca".
Potaje was founded in 1992 by Chus Alonso with the artistic objective of exploring the musical connections between Spain and the Americas. Since that time Potaje has created and performed a blend of contemporary Flamenco, Latin music and jazz, developing an original style, both innovative and traditional, respectful of the old musical forms, but open to contemporary ways of expression. In the framework of this ensemble, world class Flamenco and Latino-American artists have collaborated to build a musical bridge, linking Spain with the Americas, among them: Flamenco dancers, La Tania and Carola Zertuche; Flamenco guitarists, Guillermo Rios and Jorge Liceaga; Cuban Percussionists Roberto Borrell and Michael Spiro; and violinists, Tregar Otton and Rachel Durling.
