Located in the heart of North Beach, the Purple Onion opened in 1952 and although it is most famously remembered as a beat music venue and comedy club used by Phyllis Diller, Barbra Streisand, and Woody Allen, it also hosted some fine flamenco art…
The flamenco guitarist Tomatito, ???Jos?? Fern??ndez Torres???, performed ???Luz de gu??a (El Destello Eterno)??? at the Teatro Maestranza on Saturday 25 September 2010 during the 16th Bienal de Flamenco in Seville; his concert was in homage to th…
The first FFLAC Festival Internacional Flamenco de Cortometrajes was held at the Sala Berlanga in the Instituto Bu??uel in Madrid from 3 to 5 September 2010, where 26 short films (cortometrajes) which were selected for the Finals were shown. The j…
This year, Flamenco Festival, which has been organising very successful international festivals of flamenco in major cities outside of Spain, celebrated its 10th anniversary. Miguel Mar??n, the Artistic Director and founder of Flamenco Festival wr…
There have been a number of good series dedicated to flamenco on Spanish television. The Andalusian television station Canal Sur broadcast a weekly programme called Flamenko, which is still available for watching. The ten programmes date from Octo…
Siguiriyas is a style in flamenco that is distinctive for its rhythmic comp??s and for the depth of expression one feels with it. Adjectives such as tragic and desolate are often used to describe the siguiriya; the words of the cante often deal wi…
I have spoken about the flamenco guitarist Andr??s Batista in earlier blogs as a guitarist but here I want to focus more on his publications. Andr??s Batista published his first flamenco guitar method, the Metodo de Guitarra Flamenca (UME) in 1979…
This well-produced B&W film from 1960 recreates the atmosphere of the famous Caf?? de Chinitas in M??laga (1857???1937) in the caf?? cantante period of flamenco???s history. The film features singers Antonio Molina and Rafael Faria, as well as the…
UPDATE: Ca??izares plays with the Berlin Philharmonic The flamenco guitarist Juan Manuel Ca??izares will be performing the Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaqu??n Rodrigo with the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, at the Teatro Real in…
The Marat??n de Danza de Madrid, which is held at El Teatro de Madrid is a non-stop 24-hour dance marathon. This year???s, which was its ninth edition, was held for 12 hours on Saturday 5 June and 12 hours on Sunday 6 June 2010. It is an important…
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