For Alyssa Teijeiro-Ficht and Brian Stark of the Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Collective, flamenco is an underappreciated art form, especially in a community like Champaign-Urbana. The duo met in 2019 at a ...
Roni Benise left his Nebraska home to make it in Los Angeles, played in several rock bands and even got a gig at the famed Whisky A Go Go on Sunset Boulevard, but it was listening to a smooth jazz ...
MADRID — Paco de Lucia, one of the world’s greatest guitarists who dazzled audiences with his lightning-speed flamenco rhythms and finger work, has died in Mexico, Spanish officials said Wednesday. He ...
World Music Institute once again teams up with Flamenco Festival New York in an annual celebration of the unique fusion of tradition and the avant-garde that animates contemporary Spanish flamenco.
Rosalía is bringing the classic beauty and tradition of flamenco to a new generation. Rosalía Vila Tobella — known simply on stage as Rosalía — has been credited with taking a modern approach to ...
Peña was thrilled to find that Ronnie Drew spoke Andalusian Spanish and also played flamenco guitar Flamenco guitar wizard Paco Peña jokes that he partied with The Dubliners in his early days and ...
Acclaimed guitar virtuoso Jesse Cook and his band are coming to District Live for a stop on their continuing global Libre Tour. Since he was three years old, Cook wanted to learn how to play flamenco ...
Inside the historic Covarrubias Adobe at the Santa Barbara Historic Museum, Flamenco! Santa Barbara created another breathtaking flamenco showcase on September 4, with guest artists from Spain and ...
Olga Pericet’s “La Leona” and a dance panorama by Ballet Nacional de España look to the past, with an eye to recovery and invention. By Marina Harss For Olga Pericet, flamenco is an invitation: to ...