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 ...

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 ...