BERKELEY — Backstage at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, Paco de Lucia’s 3-year-old daughter, Antonia, offers a peeled banana to the world’s greatest living flamenco guitarist. The precocious little ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns Even for experienced steel-string guitar players, the world of ...
You may see beauty in the wood and the decorative inlays of a stringed instrument, but the interior construction is what makes each luthier's product distinctive, said Clarence Burnett, who made his ...
What makes a flamenco star? A driving sense of rhythm. A visceral, almost carnal connection with the musicians onstage. (Flamenco is primarily a musical form, as the pros love to remind us.) And, of ...
“I always try to put a little bit of my soul in the guitar,” says Maria Conde of the handcrafted flamenco instruments she creates at the Conde Hermanos workshop in Madrid. The Conde family has been ...
A classical isn't just some variant of a regular acoustic guitar, it's very much its own instrument, with a unique feel, sound, and required playing style. Whether you're new to classical, or you're ...
OWATONNA -- Classical and flamenco guitarist Randall Ferguson will present a program on the history of the guitar at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Owatonna Arts Center. Ferguson, of Northfield, will play ...
About an hour south of Sevilla in a rural Spanish pueblo called Morón de la Frontera are the remains of a Moorish citadel, a cathedral and a rather gawky monument to a gamecock. Little else there ...