Paco de Lucía – Fifth anniversary
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Flamenco Film Night – Paco de Lucía: La Búsqueda
Paco de Lucía: La Búsqueda is now screening in Spanish cinemas from today. The film begins with Paco de Lucía …
Flamenco Tablaos – Los Canasteros
The flamenco tablao, Los Canasteros, was opened by flamenco singer Manolo Caracol in 1963. Some of flamenco???s most famous artists performed there, such as Melchor de Marchena, Paco Cepero, not to mention, Manolo Caracol himself and more recently…
Flamenco Tourism – La Ruta de Camarón
This morning the Mayor of San Fernando, Jos?? Loaiza, called the press to the house where the flamenco cantaor Camar??n de la Isla (Jos?? Monje Cruz) was born ??? on 5 December 1950 ??? in Calle del Carmen. The house, presently in ruins, will be b…
Enrique de Melchor – another great loss for flamenco!
As I was writing about the death of Mora??to with deep sadness last August, at the back of my mind was that we were soon to have a double blow, as I had heard that the flamenco guitarist Enrique de Melchor was very ill. Here we are on 3 January 20…
Flamenco cantaor – Camarón de la Isla
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…
Flamenco Film Night – Camarón, la pelicula
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…
Flamenco Film Night – La Leyenda del Tiempo
After Camar??n released his groundbreaking flamenco album called La leyenda del tiempo in 1979, a few years later a film/documentary was made, bearing the same name. la distribuidora Intermedio ha publicado en dvd ???La leyenda del tiempo???. Esta…
Nuevo Flamenco – La leyenda del tiempo
One of the most powerful recordings in the modern history of flamenco is Camar??n???s La leyenda del tiempo which was released on Philips Polygram in 1979. A number of the ten tracks were based on the traditional Spansh folksongs collected by Fede…
La Guitarra Flamenca – Tomatito: Luz de Guía
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…
My Flamenco Diary 