Spanish guitar icon Paco de Lucia, whose fusion of flamenco with jazz and classical created a stunning new hybrid, died Tuesday evening near Cancun, Mexico, where he lived. The cause was an apparent ...

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Carlos Montoya, a guitarist and composer who played an important role in transforming flamenco from a localized Spanish folk form into a style with an international following, died Wednesday. He was ...

“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 ...

“Paco is the greatest flamenco guitar player of all time, and he killed flamenco,” another great Paco said to me in 1998, when I was living in Seville studying the flamenco guitar. Paco Valdepeñas was ...

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 ...

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Declaring a liking for flamenco used to be problematic for the Anglo-Saxon temperament. We were rightly scornful of cod-Latin acts like Dorita y Pepe (who were Dorothy and Pete from south London) or ...

We're getting word that Paco de Lucia died Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 66. We remember the Spanish guitarist with a profile that originally aired July 16, 2004. Paco de Lucia has played flamenco guitar for ...

For Ottmar Liebert, flamenco music is a microcosm of many musical styles. The German native, who will be performing with his band Luna Negra at the Ridgefield Playhouse on Friday, May 23, is a ...