AugustAug 27 Wednesday 08
On WNYC's New Sounds: "Global Guitars"
Click on the image to listen to Son De La Frontera on WNYC's New Sounds!
AugustAug 14 Thursday 08
BBC World Music Concert excerpts video
Watch a clip of Son de la Frontera's performance at the World Music Awards concert at the BBC Proms here. The group appears at around 3:24 in the video.
AugustAug 1 Friday 08
Son de la Frontera in the UK press: BBC PROMS
Mixed traditions at World Music Awards
By Nick Kimberley, Evening Standard 31.07.08
"For dancing, nothing equalled the exuberance of Spain's Son de la Frontera. Their music sticks close to flamenco tradition, although Cuban guitar, less percussive than …
JulyJul 18 Friday 08
The Independent on WOMAD: Son de la Frontera's "remarkable effect"
The world descends on Wiltshire
This year's Womad will have the most eclectic line-up in its history, reports Tim Cumming
Friday, 18 July 2008
"Womad 2008 has a lot to live up to as it enters its second quarter-century. In 2007, it moved to its current site …
JuneJun 17 Tuesday 08
Spinner's Around The World: "Flamenco's True Frontiers"
Son de la Frontera, Peter Walker and Pacifika on Flamenco's True Frontiers
"It looks pretty simple: A guy on the right of the stage playing guitar, a guy on the left playing a different plucked-string instrument and three guys between them alternately clapping …
AprilApr 15 Tuesday 08
Watch BBC Radio 3's World Music Awards Highlight Video!
Catch winners Son de la Frontera in the World Music Awards Highlights video on BBC Radio 3's website here:
http://www. bbc. co. uk/radio3/worldmusic/a4wm2008/video_audio. shtml
AprilApr 11 Friday 08
BBC Radio 3 Award Winners!
Flamenco group Son de la Frontera has won the "Europe" category in the seventh annual BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music. Congratulations!
AprilApr 3 Thursday 08
More UK Press on the Barbican: "mesmerizing rhythms"
From the Hornsey and Crouch End Journal, on the Barbican show:
"The double bill at the Barbican was packed and the double encore testament to the quality of this gig. Son de la Frontera (Sound of the Frontier) is a flamenco band with a twist. Band leader Raúl …
MarchMar 28 Friday 08
The Independent "Mayra Andrade almost blown away by Son de la Frontera"
Tim Cummings praises Son de la Frontera at the Barbican in The Independent UK, giving the show 4 stars:
"She last appeared in London supporting Angélique Kidjo at the Barbican in the autumn. Six months on and Mayra Andrade has been nominated for a Radio 3 Award for …
MarchMar 17 Monday 08
Financial Times "The allure of the newcomer"
The Financial Times' Mark Espiner praises Son de la Frontera's set at the Barbican.
"Late last year, Mayra Andrade's debut album had just been released and she was playing the support slot for the Benin singer Angelique Kidjo at the Barbican. Then, with a confident …
MarchMar 7 Friday 08
Sequenza21 "I Left My (Spanish) Heart in San Francisco"
Read the full article at Sequenza21.
"Flamenco provides one of the rawest, purest, and most sophisticated musico-dramatic experiences on the planet. And the 6-member Son De La Frontera, presented by The Bay Area Flamenco Partnership at The Yerba Buena Center for The …
MarchMar 3 Monday 08
Rhapsody Review of San Francisco's Show "Flamenco Reborn"
Wonderful review by Sarah Bardeen on Rhapsody about the San Francisco show last Saturday:
"When Spanish flamenco sensations Son de la Frontera came to San Francisco on Saturday, March 1, the hip, educated Bay Area audience thought it was ready. There'd been a …
FebruaryFeb 27 Wednesday 08
L.A. Times feature for Thursday's show!
You can read the show preview for Son de la Frontera's Echoplex show (2/28) in the Los Angeles Times here, as well as a New York blogger's review of the last Saturday's Skirball Center show here.
From the L.A. Times:
"Both of Son de la Frontera's CDs open with the …
FebruaryFeb 25 Monday 08
San Francisco Chronicle feature "Flamenco at the Crossroads"!
Carl Nagin writes about the influence of Diego del Gastor and the Morón de la Frontera flamenco sound in the Bay Area, leading up to Son de la Frontera's anticipated concert on March 1st at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center.
"The concert that has generated the most …
FebruaryFeb 20 Wednesday 08
Ciudad Magazine feature for Echoplex show!
Son de la Frontera is featured in Ciudad Magazine for the Los Angeles show:
"At a time when Spanish flavor is invading the fine dining world and changing the way people eat (the tapas trend has influenced the return of Italian and even Japanese "small plates"), we'd …