The award winning Ameranouche (pronounced uh-Mare-uh-noosh) plays a passionate style of music they call “Gypsy Flamenco Swing.” They are veterans of the Newport Jazz Festival, Djangofest Northwest, ...
René Heredia and his Flamenco Fantasy Dance Theatre present Flamenco Gypsy Jam, an intimate evening of live flamenco music and dance at the Mercury Café, 7 p.m., Friday, September 23. Enjoy a ...
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 ...
Image Source: Tumblr They aren’t a little country, nor are they a little bit rock ‘n’ roll. But they are Spanish, Indian, Persian, Middle Eastern and Jewish. On April 21, Gypsy Soul (Espiritu Gitano) ...
For French musician Émilie Simon, the flamenco-meets-gypsy vibe writer-director John Turturro was seeking for the soundtrack to his movie “The Jesus Rolls” turned out to be in her musical and ...
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 ...
Afro-Spanish singer Concha Buika started out as a drummer but found that no one in Spain wanted a female drummer so she switched to singing. She deploys her smoky voice in everything from flamenco and ...
In 2017, Italian musician Luca Stricagnoli’s cover of the hit Gorillaz song “Feel Good Inc.” featuring his triple-neck guitar — an invention of his — went viral. The video of him executing the bass ...
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 a Buenos Aires theatre last summer, white-haired Maestro Arturo Toscanini embraced a swart, black-haired, sloe-eyed dancer and cried: “Never in my life have I seen such fire and rhythm!” ...
La Presy (born Priscilla Treviño Lozano, 1952-2011) left San Antonio 33 years ago and became a well-respected flamenco teacher in Granada, the heart and breeding ground of gypsy Spain. Two of her top ...
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 ...