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LINKS

FLAMENCO

Peña Duende One of the best places in Madrid to enjoy live flamenco. Friendly atmosphere and professional singers. Two artists, two chairs, no microphones and no rumbas.

Letras Lyric verse (poetry) is used in flamenco singing. You'll appreciate the music a lot more if you understand the words. This is an outstanding collection of lyrics taken from some of the best flamenco recordings.

Triste y Azul One of the best sites on the Internet for flamenco, T&A offers many interesting resources.

El Flamenco Vive is probably the best place in the world for flamenco resources. Located in Madrid, this shop is also responsible for a number of fine recordings that have appeared in recent years.

Evan Harrar has a very nice website set up on flamenco guitar in general and Diego del Gastor in particular. Check out the excellent photos, useful playing tips, and massive collection of Morón-style falsetas.

Encuentro Productions These folks offer an excellent series of transcriptions + video of today's outstanding flamenco guitarists.

Guillermo Salazar Guillermo's site has lots of useful information on flamenco and a large collection of photos and links.

Flamenco-world Check out this award-winning website with all kinds of resources.

Centro Andaluz de Flamenco Spain's most important center of flamenco information.

The Flamenco Guitar Home Page John Philip Dimick has excellent links and falsetas for you.

Dutch Flamenco pages A great selection of flamenco resources.

OFS Flamenco The home of Sólo Compás, from Sevilla.

GUITAR

Guitarrista and Acordes are two Spanish-language magazines dedicated to the world of guitar playing.

Guitar-directory offers a broad selection of resources and links covering many different styles.

Zen Guitar Develop your head and heart as well as your hands.

Guitar Notes The mother of all guitar sites.

Conde Hermanos The great work of these luthiers upholds a flamenco institution.

GuitarSite.com Hundreds of links related to the guitar.

Georgia Fingerstyle Guitar Association Defenders of the thumb-and-finger style. 

Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine The best magazine on the subject.

Guitar Gallery All things guitar.

The 12th Fret The website of Guitar Paradise. The next best thing to being there...

Zavaleta's "La Casa de la Guitarra" has a wonderful website for classical and flamenco.

Celtic Guitar Music Glenn Weiser's Celtic guitar site is excellent. Check out the cool transcriptions.

ARTISTS' WEB PAGES

Paco de Lucía The official website of the flamenco master.

Tomatito Check out the website of the man from Almería.

Chet Atkins was an absolute genius in almost every facet of guitar playing. Much more than country.

Pierre Bensusan Pierre is a great artist and a talented eclectic fingerstylist.

Leo Kottke Leo's avante-garde fingerpicking music is a gift to us all, and his musicianship is inspiring.

Alex de Grassi Alex is a brilliant modern fingerstyle player with many good recordings to his credit.

Keola Beamer Check out this excellent slack-key guitarist.

Tuck Andress The fingerstyle jazz wizard, reconciling seemingly irreconcilable opposites.

RECORDINGS

Fods Records This Utrera-based company has put out some excellent flamenco recordings.

GENERAL

The Music Review A searchable data base of websites related to the music industry.

Musices.Com A large selection of links related to music in Spain.

Froots (Folk Roots Magazine) An excellent magazine dedicated to all kinds of traditional music and its mutations.

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