“ [My first guitar was] a beat-up flamenco-style acoustic that my grandmother had in her fuckin’ closet: she gave it to me.” So if you have a dusty old beginner electric guitar sitting in the back of ...

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In Saturday night’s double bill with Berta Rojas, John Williams approached the musical terrain of the Venezuelan maestro Agustín Barrios Mangoré with the caution of an explorer in exotic regions—a ...

Just got back from a week in Santa Fe, where all the houses are brown and all the corners are round. So much for my plebeian take on the famously chic Santa Fe style. With the acclaimed Santa Fe Opera ...

Acclaimed guitar virtuoso Jesse Cook and his band are coming to District Live for a stop on their continuing global Libre Tour. Since he was three years old, Cook wanted to learn how to play flamenco ...

More info: The evening, part of the Wheeler’s Sunset Sessions series, includes performances by Miss Meaghan Owens, Roma Ransom, Valle Musico and El Javi; wheeleroperahouse.com El Javi may be the king ...

The artist known as Benise first tried to make his way into the music business as just another electric guitarist in a rock band. He and his band were getting gigs, but Benise (pronounced Buh-nes-say) ...

Good things come from Jerez, Spain: the bulls, the sherry, the flamenco. “It’s said the first cry of flamenco was born of Jerez de la Frontera,” said Maria Bermudez. Bermudez’s show is intimate ...

For Alyssa Teijeiro-Ficht and Brian Stark of the Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Collective, flamenco is an underappreciated art form, especially in a community like Champaign-Urbana. The duo met in 2019 at a ...

Madrid — Juan VERDU, a graying bohemian with a lean, quixotic look, knows the secret places haunted by the ghosts of flamenco. He strolls across the lively Plaza Santa Ana in the heart of this Spanish ...