Flamenco Guitarist Paco Pena Performs “A Compas!” at UCLA Live Royce Hall October 8th at 8 pm Paco Pena will lead a stellar group of 3 flamenco guitarists, 3 dance masters, including his wife Charo, along with singer Miguel Ortega and percussionist Nacho Lopez in a show based on his album “A Compás!” Few have [...]

Eva Encinias Sandoval, director of the National Institute of Flamenco (NIF) announced today that after 22 years of continuous production, Festival Flamenco Internacional de Alburquerque will be suspended in 2009. The ten-day event features 50 artists from Spain presenting 10 performances and 30+ workshops within all disciplines of the art form. Students from all over [...]

In town for The Bay Area Flamenco Partnership’s Festival of Flamenco Arts and Traditions 2009, Los Farruco “first family of Gypsy flamenco dance” make their Bay Area premier featuring two of the maestro’s younger grandsons –Farruco (“El Farru”) and Barullo (“El Negro”) as well as both of his daughters –La Farruca and La Faraona “la [...]

New York’s annual flamenco celebration, now in its ninth year, features mesmerizing performances with renowned dancers and musicians direct from Andalusia, Spain. The festival, which is dedicated to the vitality of the flamenco arts of Andalusia – the birthplace of flamenco, features the award-winning vocal maestro Arcángel and virtuoso pianist Dorantes with dancer Rosario Toledo [...]