Though many people come for the fiery dancing, the true aficionado knows that flamenco is a marriage of cante (song), baile (dance) and toque (guitar playing). “It’s always a conversation,” says Jason ...
Navajita Plateá, one of the most acclaimed and recognized gypsy flamenco bands on Spain's music scene make their Los Angeles debut on Saturday, November 5 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, with their ...
A small army of Manhattan’s Latins turned out to see Carmen Amaya, famed Spanish gypsy dancer at the Roxy Theater last week. But a very critical segment of that army really went to hear one of her ...
Mario Maya, a Spanish-born Gypsy who created memorable works of flamenco dance and as a choreographer broadened the scope of the traditional form by adding elements from modern dance, died Sept. 27 of ...
The passion of Spanish Flamenco music and dance comes to the stage at the wonderfully intimate Mondo venue in downtown Summit on Friday, Feb. 22, at 7:30 p.m. This new bi-monthly concert performance ...
Award-winning musician Oliver Rajamani marks his 25th year in Austin with the premiere performance of “Flamenco India” — a musical journey that connects the Spanish roots of gypsy flamenco with the ...
Flamenco is so hackneyed a part of the Spanish package that it's certainly time to chisel through the candy to seek the bitter heart of the real thing. But there's always something hokum when a ...
In 1959, a magical year for jazz albums, Miles Davis, inspired by some flamenco performances he had heard, recorded Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960) at Columbia's 30th Street studio. Half of the ...
Vivacious Argentinean party tunes. New wave American roots music with a punk influence. Good old-fashioned bluegrass and gospel. Hip flamenco with a gypsy flair. Perpetually popular French gypsy jazz.
Sorcery of all sorts captures our imaginations. There’s witchcraft, with its errant rites for reward and retribution; love – at times seeming just as supernatural – casting its own spells, and art, ...