The Third Flamenco Bi??nnale Nederland was held from 21???30 January 2011 in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrech. The artists featured included: Joaqu??n Grilo, Pastora Galv??n, Mora??to Chico, Diego del Morao, David Pe??a ???Dorantes???, and Roc??o M…
The annual Flamenco Festival London 2011 at Sadler’s Wells begins on Tuesday 8 February 2011 with the flamenco singer Estrella Morente ???In Concert???. On Wednesday 9 February 2011 Israel Galv??n presents his show La Edad de Oro, performing with …
The 15th Festival de Jerez will be held in Jerez de la Frontera, C??diz, Spain, from 25 February to 12 March 2011. The website is full of information in Spanish, English and German about this year???s Festival. There are also video clips from prev…
It is with great sadness that I write of the death of the flamenco cantaor Enrique Morente in Madrid on Monday 13 December 2010. Enrique Morente Cotelo was born in Granada, Spain in 1942. He will be remembered not only for his superb voice but als…
Camar??n de la Isla, Jos?? Monje Cruz, was born on 5 December 1950. To mark the 60th anniversary of his birth, Universal have released a recording of his final concert, which was held on 25 January 1992 at the Club de M??sica y Jazz of the Colegio…
It is almost 60 years since the flamenco singer Camar??n de la Isla was born (Jos?? Monje Cruz, 5 December 1950), so it seems fitting to talk about the film made about his life by Jaime Ch??varri called Camar??n, la pelicula. Camar??n was played b…
For almost 30 years the independent Spanish record company, Nuevos Medios, has been making ground-breaking recordings with new Spanish artists. Mario Pacheco and his wife Cucha Salazar set up Nuevos Medios in 1982 and provided a new generation of …
Film Director Carlos Saura has just released his latest film featuring an incredible number of fabulous flamenco artists: Sara Baras, Farruquito and his 13-year-old brother El Carpeta, Eva Yerbabuena, Jos?? Merc??, Estrella Morente, Mar??a Pages, …
The Taberna Los Gabrieles moved to Calle Echegaray,17, near Plaza Santa Ana in Madrid, in 1907, it transformed the surrounding area, as Jos?? Blas Vega explains in his book El flamenco en Madrid: ‘ la calle Echegaray y sus aleda??os se convirtiero…
The flamenco film version of Carmen came out in 1983; it was a collaboration between Antonio Gades and the director Carlos Saura and is the second film in Saura???s ???flamenco trilogy???. The stage version of the production had been premi??red on…
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