Monday, June 22, 2009

Preview: Tapas Fantasticas (27-28 June) (Londonist)

Preview: Tapas Fantasticas (27-28 June) (Londonist)
Last year’s Tapas Fantasticas event was fantastic indeed and one of Londonist’s preferred food/drink events of the year. Well, those fantastic tapas are coming back … along with plenty of wines from Rioja, entertainment (expect flamenco and more Spanish music and dancing) and activities (tasting seminars, stuff for the toe heads in tow and more). As last year, some of London’s top tapas bars ...

STG Presents Rodrigo y Gabriela 9/21 At The Moore Theatre - Broadway World

STG Presents Rodrigo y Gabriela 9/21 At The Moore Theatre - Broadway World

STG Presents Rodrigo y Gabriela 9/21 At The Moore Theatre
Broadway World, NY
Mentions of flamenco influences raise sharp responses: "To many music fans, it sounds like flamenco, and we're great flamenco fans, but we don't play it" says Gabriela. "The only similarity is that our music is guitar music and it's very rhythmic. ...

Don't miss it advisory #3: Flamenco dancing storyteller performs ... - Examiner.com

Don't miss it advisory #3: Flamenco dancing storyteller performs ... - Examiner.com

Examiner.com

Don't miss it advisory #3: Flamenco dancing storyteller performs ...
Examiner.com
Once upon a time there was a man who danced flamenco in a bullring and lived to tell about it. Perhaps you can cajole the story out of Christopher Maier at one of his upcoming “Catch the Rhythm—Viva el Ritmo” storytelling performances at various ...

El Ayuntamiento prevé más de 400.000 personas en la Noche Blanca ... - ABC.es

El Ayuntamiento prevé más de 400.000 personas en la Noche Blanca ... - ABC.es

El Ayuntamiento prevé más de 400.000 personas en la Noche Blanca ...
ABC.es, Spain
... en la plaza de La Corredera con motivo del concierto de José Mercé y el objetivo es que "asistan el mayor número de ciudadanos posible". La diseñadora ha expresado que durante "esta noche mágica Córdoba es embrujo, duende, flamenco y arte".

Casa Vicente Restaurant in Tucson to host Flamenco dancing this summer - Examiner.com

Casa Vicente Restaurant in Tucson to host Flamenco dancing this summer - Examiner.com

Examiner.com

Casa Vicente Restaurant in Tucson to host Flamenco dancing this summer
Examiner.com
What makes Casa Vicente different is that it is a "Spanish" restaurant with a menu that reflects a Mediterranean slant. Where some of the Mexican restaurants will have Mariachi, Casa Vicente will have Flamenco guitarists. Where the Mexican restaurants ...

Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for June 18-24 - North County Times

Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for June 18-24 - North County Times

Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for June 18-24
North County Times, CA
Belly dance classes ---- Newly relocated from Oceanside, this studio offers Arabic-style belly dancing classes as well as classes in flamenco, salsa, samba, ballroom, Polynesian, yoga, tribal fusion and Latin mix; Art/Dance Academy, 1850 Hacienda Drive ...

Dance Listings - New York Times

Dance Listings - New York Times

Dance Listings
New York Times, United States
On Wednesday at 8 pm in the Ted Shawn Theater, the festival kicks off in earnest with an evening of flamenco, featuring Belén Maya and Rocío Molina. Complete listings, including free performances and lectures: jacobspillow.org. (Through Aug. 30. ...

Arts festival has it all, even flushable toilets - StandardNet

Arts festival has it all, even flushable toilets - StandardNet

Arts festival has it all, even flushable toilets
StandardNet, Utah
Street performers for this year's festival include flamenco dancers, belly dancers, Polynesian dancers, magicians and jugglers. Urban artists will be painting, and repainting, a giant cube throughout the event, creating an ever-changing work. ...

Monday, June 15, 2009

Laugh and cry in step (Daily Telegraph)

Laugh and cry in step (Daily Telegraph)
THEY are gutsy, emotional themes but flamenco is fitting for a style of music, dance and song that grew from the repression of the Spanish Inquisition.

Eric Miller brings hot flamenco flavor to The Gypsy in Sedona on ... - Sedona.biz

Eric Miller brings hot flamenco flavor to The Gypsy in Sedona on ... - Sedona.biz

Sedona.biz

Eric Miller brings hot flamenco flavor to The Gypsy in Sedona on ...
Sedona.biz, AZ
SEDONA, AZ (June 14, 2009) - Spice up your evening with the live music of Sedona flamenco guitarist Eric Miller at The Gypsy on Saturday, June 20. Starting at 7 pm, Miller and his band will blend flamenco and Brazilian music at one of the hottest ...

Noche Flamenca - Australian Stage Online

Noche Flamenca - Australian Stage Online

Noche Flamenca
Australian Stage Online, Australia
I can think of no current dancer in the world as marvellous as she” New York Times, 2007 Fresh from a critically acclaimed US tour, sensational Madrid-based flamenco dance company, Noche Flamenca, appears in Australia for the first time in eight years, ...

For singer, performing at festival is a wish come true - Marin Independent-Journal

For singer, performing at festival is a wish come true - Marin Independent-Journal

For singer, performing at festival is a wish come true
Marin Independent-Journal, CA
Hazlett had never sung in public until 2 1/2 years ago when she met and was inspired by flamenco guitarist Michael "Firefingers" Olsen. Like Hazlett, Olsen has since moved from Laguna Beach to Fairfax. "Being a 'wish fairy' was kind of far out for ...

Music: Music this weekend & more - Philadelphia Inquirer

Music: Music this weekend & more - Philadelphia Inquirer

Music: Music this weekend & more
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA
... flirting with flamenco and Middle Eastern influences. Chris' Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom St., 8 and 10 tonight, $20, 215-568-3131, chrisjazzcafe.com. Sci-Fi Philly: A solo set by bassist Christopher Williams from Barcelona, tenor saxophonist Dave ...

Ventura County Ballet Company shares Cinderella performances with ... - California Chronicle

Ventura County Ballet Company shares Cinderella performances with ... - California Chronicle

Ventura County Ballet Company shares Cinderella performances with ...
California Chronicle, CA
Other classes include modern dance, flamenco, and jazz. Information: www.venturacountyballet.com. Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families is a crisis-care and residential treatment facility for abused, neglected, or at-risk children in Ventura ...

Bloggin' On Bonnaroo: an Armchair Companion - American Songwriter

Bloggin' On Bonnaroo: an Armchair Companion - American Songwriter

Bloggin' On Bonnaroo: an Armchair Companion
American Songwriter, TN
They blend flamenco and metal influences and play to impress. I know a lot of guitar players who would have multiple orgasms over this music. Aye carumba! They are the Jimi Hendrixes of what they do. If all world music was this awesome, it would just ...

This weekend in KC | June 12-14 (The Kansas City Star)

This weekend in KC | June 12-14 (The Kansas City Star)
Friday, KCK is the place to be for arts. A 4-9 p.m. free street festival is part of the Second Friday Art Walk. Three stages, food and art vendors, and children’s activities will be set up on Minnesota Avenue from Sixth to Eighth streets. One stage will offer music, including local Afro beat band Hearts of Darkness. Tae kwon do demonstrations, folk dancing, flamenco and break dancing are also on ...

Dancepatheatre: Memories of Spain - Houston Press

Dancepatheatre: Memories of Spain - Houston Press

Dancepatheatre: Memories of Spain
Houston Press, TX
BY JULIA RAMEY When you think Spain and dance, you naturally think flamenco. At today's repertory concert Memories of Spain, Dancepatheatre will offer small doses of the sensual dance, along with much more. The program includes artistic director Sara ...

GOD FORBID Guitarist DOC COYLE Featured In ETERNAL DESCENT Comic ... - Blabbermouth.net

GOD FORBID Guitarist DOC COYLE Featured In ETERNAL DESCENT Comic ... - Blabbermouth.net

GOD FORBID Guitarist DOC COYLE Featured In ETERNAL DESCENT Comic ...
Blabbermouth.net, NY
His highly intricate guitar style exhibits the many influences corralled to create his intense sound — from classical, flamenco, electronica, and ambient genres to the more prominent genres of rock and metal. All of these genres infused to one, ...

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Felines and flamenco - Taipei Times

Felines and flamenco - Taipei Times

Felines and flamenco
Taipei Times, Taiwan
Fernandez, nicknamed “El Yiyo,” comes from a Gypsy family and has been groomed it seems almost from birth to be a flamenco dancer. However, his formal training began six years ago in Barcelona with Bartolo (Manuel Jimenez), one of city's most famous ...

Emotions sizzle with Noche Flamenca (The Post and Courier)

Emotions sizzle with Noche Flamenca (The Post and Courier)
What is flamenco? A cry from the soul. An extended lament. It is the expression of pure emotion, channeled through that which generates it: the human body.

Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for June 4-10 - North County Times

Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for June 4-10 - North County Times

Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for June 4-10
North County Times, CA
Belly dance classes ---- Newly relocated from Oceanside, this studio offers Arabic-style belly dancing classes as well as classes in flamenco, salsa, samba, ballroom, Polynesian, yoga, tribal fusion and Latin mix; Art/Dance Academy, 1850 Hacienda Drive ...

Emotions sizzle with Noche Flamenca (The Post and Courier)

Emotions sizzle with Noche Flamenca (The Post and Courier)
What is flamenco? A cry from the soul. An extended lament. It is the expression of pure emotion, channeled through that which generates it: the human body.

'Pure flamenco' (The Post and Courier)

'Pure flamenco' (The Post and Courier)
Don't expect anything avant-garde, freakish or re-interpreted in the Spanish flamenco dance performance by Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca in the coming three nights at the College of Charleston Cistern Yard. Instead, audiences will be treated to some of the best traditional, passionate flamenco in the world.

Turbulence (Fort Worth Weekly)

Turbulence (Fort Worth Weekly)
A flamenco dancer shimmied and snapped her fingers for the large crowd of local and state politicians, employees, and reporters who converged on Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on May 1 to celebrate American Airlines' new nonstop service to Madrid.

Flamenco mesmerizes with fiery movements - Jakarta Post

Flamenco mesmerizes with fiery movements - Jakarta Post

Flamenco mesmerizes with fiery movements
Jakarta Post, Indonesia
The two continued their dance of mutual seduction until a third dancer, Lucia Alvarez, emerged from backstage, looking foreboding in a black dress and red shawl. Slowly, dramatically raising her arms above her head, she stood proudly and alone, ...

In Italy, Questions Are From Enemies, and That's That - New York Times

In Italy, Questions Are From Enemies, and That's That - New York Times

New York Times

In Italy, Questions Are From Enemies, and That's That
New York Times, United States
In Italy, abuse of office is something of a foreign concept, even though an Italian court is now investigating whether Mr. Berlusconi committed it when he used government planes to shuttle guests, including a Neapolitan singer and a flamenco dancer, ...

'Pure flamenco' (The Post and Courier)

'Pure flamenco' (The Post and Courier)
Don't expect anything avant-garde, freakish or re-interpreted in the Spanish flamenco dance performance by Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca in the coming three nights at the College of Charleston Cistern Yard. Instead, audiences will be treated to some of the best traditional, passionate flamenco in the world.

Dancers ready to rock around the docks at Bristol's Harbour Festival - Bristol Evening Post

Dancers ready to rock around the docks at Bristol's Harbour Festival - Bristol Evening Post

Dancers ready to rock around the docks at Bristol's Harbour Festival
Bristol Evening Post, UK
Every type of dance from ballet to flamenco can be seen on the three stages of the festival's dance village. Principal dancers from the American Ballet Theatre will perform Twyla Tharp's world-famous Sinatra Suite, a ballroom- style performance ...

Monday, June 8, 2009

Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for June 4-10 - North County Times

Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for June 4-10 - North County Times

Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for June 4-10
North County Times, CA
Belly dance classes ---- Newly relocated from Oceanside, this studio offers Arabic-style belly dancing classes as well as classes in flamenco, salsa, samba, ballroom, Polynesian, yoga, tribal fusion and Latin mix; Art/Dance Academy, 1850 Hacienda Drive ...

Calé arranca el viernes en el Teatro Principal con el flamenco ... - El Norte de Castilla

Calé arranca el viernes en el Teatro Principal con el flamenco ... - El Norte de Castilla

Calé arranca el viernes en el Teatro Principal con el flamenco ...
El Norte de Castilla, Spain
El presidente de la peña flamenca 'Amigos del Cante' de Zamora, Eduardo Abril, que está en el plantel de organizadores del evento cultural, aclara que este festival, a pesar de su proximidad en las fechas, no tiene que ver con el tradicional de las ...

Felines and flamenco - Taipei Times

Felines and flamenco - Taipei Times

Felines and flamenco
Taipei Times, Taiwan
The second is New Flamenco Generation at Novel Hall, which features the precocious Miguel Fernandez — El Yiyo — who despite being just 13 years old has been hailed as the future of Spain's flamenco culture. The Neo-Classic Dance Company was founded 33 ...

Felines and flamenco - Taipei Times

Felines and flamenco - Taipei Times

Felines and flamenco
Taipei Times, Taiwan
While the songs of the Amis — and other Aboriginals — are becoming a trademark of Taiwan, flamenco music and dance are synonymous with Spain for many people, though Andalusian and Gypsy in origin. Fernandez, nicknamed “El Yiyo,” comes from a Gypsy ...

Fashion hits the city streets - Euro Weekly News

Fashion hits the city streets - Euro Weekly News

Euro Weekly News

Fashion hits the city streets
Euro Weekly News, Spain
ON Saturday, May 30, Almeria City hosted the second day of the 'Moda en la calle' (Fashion on the Streets) event in the Plaza Flores that showcases the latest trends in flamenco and wedding clothing. The event started with a shopping tour of the Centro ...

North Miami Performance Art Network is destroyed; arson is suspected - MiamiHerald.com

North Miami Performance Art Network is destroyed; arson is suspected - MiamiHerald.com

MiamiHerald.com

North Miami Performance Art Network is destroyed; arson is suspected
MiamiHerald.com, FL
Fire investigators and North Miami police are now trying to determine who set the fire that destroyed one of the city's last remaining places for Haitian, flamenco and belly dancers to train alongside musicians and singers. The group, which started in ...

JAZZ FEST 09: Interview: Jake Shimabukuro - Rochester City Newspaper

JAZZ FEST 09: Interview: Jake Shimabukuro - Rochester City Newspaper

JAZZ FEST 09: Interview: Jake Shimabukuro
Rochester City Newspaper, NY
I love the fact that they come to shows thinking they're going to hear simple, maybe even comical, tunes or something, and then I'll come out and do a flamenco tune or a classical piece or a jazz-fusion piece, and they'll be like, "Woah, ...

Breakout 2007: Apostle Of Hustle - ChartAttack

Breakout 2007: Apostle Of Hustle - ChartAttack

ChartAttack

Breakout 2007: Apostle Of Hustle
ChartAttack, Canada
He points out that there's more flamenco moments than Cuban on National Anthem, in part because his roommate's father in Montreal, where they recorded the disc, plays flamenco guitar. "We were listening to a fair amount of South American folk music," ...
Apostle of Hustle set to release 'Eats Darkness' Altsounds.com
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Anatomy of Berluscoland - El País (España)

Anatomy of Berluscoland - El País (España)

Anatomy of Berluscoland
El País (España), Spain
It is enough for two private beaches, three artificial lakes, half a dozen pools, the amphitheatre where Apicella (the singer-songwriter for whom Berlusconi writes), the dancers and the flamenco dancers (flamenco fans are still wondering who that ...

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Gli «scatti» delle feste in Sardegna - Corriere della Sera

Gli «scatti» delle feste in Sardegna - Corriere della Sera

Corriere della Sera

Gli «scatti» delle feste in Sardegna
Corriere della Sera, Italy
Dopo sbuca lei, indicata come una ballerina di flamenco chiamata ad allietare le serate di festa. Il premier è ritratto mentre lascia il velivolo dell'Aeronautica militare e quando si ferma a salutare il comitato di accoglienza sulla pista. ...

Emotions sizzle with Noche Flamenca (The Post and Courier)

Emotions sizzle with Noche Flamenca (The Post and Courier)
What is flamenco? A cry from the soul. An extended lament. It is the expression of pure emotion, channeled through that which generates it: the human body.

Turbulence (Fort Worth Weekly)

Turbulence (Fort Worth Weekly)
A flamenco dancer shimmied and snapped her fingers for the large crowd of local and state politicians, employees, and reporters who converged on Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on May 1 to celebrate American Airlines' new nonstop service to Madrid.

Emotions sizzle with Noche Flamenca (The Post and Courier)

Emotions sizzle with Noche Flamenca (The Post and Courier)
What is flamenco? A cry from the soul. An extended lament. It is the expression of pure emotion, channeled through that which generates it: the human body.

Latin flavours, neighbourhood vibes - Vancouver Sun

Latin flavours, neighbourhood vibes - Vancouver Sun

Latin flavours, neighbourhood vibes
Vancouver Sun,  Canada
Translated, the name means "neighbourhood" and, from the looks of it, that's what El Barrio Restaurante focuses on. Along with the Latin food, there's salsa lessons and dancing, flamenco, open mike night, live music and local art for sale. ...

'Pure flamenco' (The Post and Courier)

'Pure flamenco' (The Post and Courier)
Don't expect anything avant-garde, freakish or re-interpreted in the Spanish flamenco dance performance by Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca in the coming three nights at the College of Charleston Cistern Yard. Instead, audiences will be treated to some of the best traditional, passionate flamenco in the world.

Featured Article (Fort Worth Weekly)

Featured Article (Fort Worth Weekly)
A flamenco dancer shimmied and snapped her fingers for the large crowd of local and state politicians, employees, and reporters who converged on Dallas/For...

Ojos de Brujo / Peyoti for President - guardian.co.uk

Ojos de Brujo / Peyoti for President - guardian.co.uk

Ojos de Brujo / Peyoti for President
guardian.co.uk, UK
The backing was provided by keyboards, trumpet, DJ scratching, and percussion that included the Latin American cajón and Indian tablas, and almost drowned out the band's two fine flamenco guitarists Ramón Giménez and Paco Lomeña, who were given only ...