Poetry and music often allow readers and listeners to be transported into the world of the composer. The rhyme and repetition create the artist’s world in the mind of an audience, and that is what ...

The snap of flamenco guitar, the twang of the oud and the jazzy sheen of a violin create a siren-call like no other. The sound of , a Portland ensemble, takes ancient music from Spain, Morocco and the ...

7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday Eliot Chapel, Reed College. Portland's Al-Andalus Ensemble takes ancient music from Spain, Morocco and the Middle East and makes it new again. Its latest program, "Faces of ...

Al-Andalus The Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company At Premiere Dance Theatre in Toronto on Thursday It's said that nobody doesn't like flamenco. Certainly the sellout crowd at Toronto's Premiere ...

Al-Andalus is the old Moorish name for Andalucia in the south of Spain, the heartland of Flamenco. ‘Al-Andalus Flamenco’ are a new group showcasing every aspect of authentic flamenco, the fiery and ...

Hannah French and her studio guests, musicologist Jonathan Shannon, art historian Sabiha Al Khemir and historian Hugh Kennedy, explore the music and culture of Al-Andalus. Show more AL-ANDALUS! THE ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X You can tear away at Spain — as many have done — hunting for a term that defines it all. But no ...

Three hundred years ago, flamenco was an obscure dance performed only in southern Spain. There it might have remained, the pastime of peasants and Roma, unknown to the outside world. But flamenco ...