Alfonso Cid

No recuerdo bien la fecha exacta, fue una noche de febrero del año 2003. En el City Center de Nueva York se celebró la Gala de Andalucía dentro del marco del New York Flamenco Festival con un elenco de ensueño…

A man falls in a busy Parisian Street in the evening. The cause is unknown. Did he feel dizzy, slip, or faint unconscious? Passers-by are so busy, wrapped up in their evening plans, going back home after work, excited to…

Un hombre cae en la calle en una bulliciosa noche parisina. No se sabe por qué, un mareo, resbaló, calló inconsciente. Los viandantes están todos muy ocupados con sus planes para esa noche, volviendo a casa del trabajo, cenar, ver…

¡Feliz Año Nuevo mis amigas y amigos!

(Traducción al español más abajo) 

I really hope 2022 comes filled with joy, fortune, love and above all good health for you and your loved ones. 

Here is a video from 14 years…

Her full name was Josefa Peña Reyes (Utrera, 1937-11/7/2016), she was part of a deeply rooted Utrera and Lebrija gypsy family. Her grandfather was Fernando Peña Soto, the legendary “Pinini”, who is mentioned in many stanzas of the traditional flamenco…

Alonso Núñez “Rancapino Chico” y Manuel Jero (Seguiriya).

(English translation below)

Alonso Núñez “Rancapino Chico” es hijo del gran cantaor de Chiclana de la Frontera, Cádiz, Alonso Núñez “Rancapino”. Siendo así, es poseedor de una…

Flamenco is a music and dance form that originated in Andalusia, in the south of Spain about 200 years ago. It's an art form that reflects the actual melting pot Andalusia is, a land in which we historically can find…

"What are they singing here? What type of bulerías are these?" That is what a friend and flamenco dancer asked me the other day. It turned out that finding an answer led me into a far deeper analysis than she…

Manuel Torre.  The singer of the black sounds. 

(Manuel Soto Loreto.  Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), 1878-Sevilla, 1933)

I’m going through a phase, in which I can only listen to Manuel Torre. Every time I listen to his recordings, I…

Peñas Flamencas.

(First published in Phillyflamenco.com on September of 2007)

After eleven years living away from Spain I can’t help thinking about peñas flamencas with nostalgia. When I first started going to a peña flamenca, I was twenty years younger…