Bay Area: 2009 Festival of Flamenco Arts & Traditions

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 madre de la buleria”. Accompanied by celebrated guitarists Antonio Rey and El Tuto and some of Spain’s most outstanding young flamenco singers incuding Pedro el Granaino, Mara Rey, El Rubio de Pruna and Antonio Zuniga, Los Farruco promises a thrilling evening of Gypsy flamenco dance and music.

Los Farruco features two generations of Gypsy artists- all direct descendents of the legendary patriarch and flamenco dance master, El Farruco who performed in the San Francisco in the late 1980s as part of Claudio Segovia and Hector Orezzoli’s Broadway production, “Flamenco Puro”. Farruquito, the superstar of the Farruco clan, performed in Berkeley in 2003 when he was only 18-years-old presented by Cal Performances.

Los Farruco, First Family of Gypsy Flamenco Dance
Direct from Spain, Bay Area Premier
Friday, March 6th, 8pm
The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
3301 Lyon Street San Francisco, CA 94123
TICKETS: $35-$75 buy online http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/51310
or by phone: (800) 838-8006
More info:(510) 444-2820 http://www.FlamencoFestivalSF.com

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