Pascual Marquina

Espana Cani

Olé! Get on your dancing shoes and find the castanets! Here comes the Spanish bullfight dance España Cañi, perhaps the most well known Paso Doble from the country with the very best football theme in the world (2010).

España Cañi, also known as the Spanish Gypsy Dance, was written around 1925. Besides its traditional use as background music in bullfights in Spain and elsewhere, it has been used so much by ballroom dancers that it is often simply referred to as 'the Paso Doble song'.

In this arrangement you can find the fire and drive of the original version, and it's playable by most groups from at least 5 wind players.