The Flamenco Festival New York 2025, anchored by the Flamenco Festival New York City Center, brings the best Spanish flamenco artists to New York City in March, at the start of their tours of the Americas.
Flamenco has grown from a traditional art into many modern fusions. The Flamenco Festival New York 2025 presents flamenco for every taste, from pure tradition, to very contemporary.
Flamenco Festival New York 2025
The Flamenco Festival New York 2025 is March 5-15, 2025. It pays tribute to Granada, Andalusía, Spain; and Lorca, the beloved Spanish poet and playwright who was born in a small town just outside Granada.
Granada is a center for the Spanish guitar which is as important to flamenco as it is to Latin music, rock music, and related traditions. Granada is famous for zambra, an old flamenco with strong Romani roots that is danced barefoot in peasant skirts with castanets. Granada’s flamenco barrio is the Sacromonte. It is famous for its caves (literally caves). The neighborhood was abandoned when the Catholic Monarchs expelled Jewish and Muslim communities. Romani, the originators of flamenco, moved in. Some lived in the caves. Today Sacromonte is an exciting flamenco neighborhood.
Lorca spent time in New York City before being murdered during the Spanish Civil War. “Poeta en Nueva York” is a famous poem about his visit. His joy in the city reads like a Spanish Walt Whitman. His plays are much loved in Spanish communities. Repertorio Español performs several of them. Lorca described flamenco “duende” as “a heightened state of emotion, expression, and authenticity.”
Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Flamenco guitarist Carlos de Jacoba and Grammy-winning pianist Zaccai Curtis, with percussionist Juanito Carmona, present “Flamenco Meets Jazz,” at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 7pm & 9pm. From $20. jazz.org
Curtis is one of the Curtis Brothers, who can complement their amazing jazz chops with stories about how the music came to be. I don’t know why flamenco goes so well with jazz, but it does. Flamenco doesn’t have clave in it (the sub-Saharan and Afro-Cuban bell pattern that defines a lot of Latin music) in it, but to my Caribbean ear, it does. Flamenco duende and Caribbean traditions of spiritual possession (being mounted by the horse) are exactly the same thing.
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
Kiki Morente, featuring Carlos de Jacoba, presents “Lorquianos,” a tribute to Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca; at Elebash Recital Hall at CUNY Graduate Center in Murray Hill, Manhattan; on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 7pm. gc.cuny.edu 🇪🇸
Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater
Flamenco guitarist Juan Habichuela Nieto “8 Abrazos para Lorca” (Eight hugs for Lorca); at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 8, 2025, at 9:30pm. From $42. publictheater.org 🇪🇸
In Latin cultures, talent runs in families. Juan is from the famed Habichuela flamenco family. He was taught by his famous grandfather, who Juan is named after.
Sara Jiménez “Variación a tempo” plays with traditional and new flamenco dance forms; at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on, March 13, 2025 at 9:30pm. $36. publictheater.org 🇪🇸
King Juan Carlos Center (KJCC) at New York University (NYU)
Zen del Sur, Carlos López and Antonio Vargas, presents “Órbita,” an acrobatic flamenco circus that plays with centrifugal force; at King Juan Carlos Center (KJCC) at New York University (NYU) in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village; on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 7pm. kjcc.org 🇪🇸
Le Poisson Rouge
La Plazuela (Manuel Hidalgo Sierra “El Indio” and Luis Abril Martín “El Nitro”) plays their electronic flamenco funk pop fusion from their debut album “Roneo Funk Club;” for the World Music Institute, at Le Poisson Rouge in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village; on Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 10pm (9:30pm doors). From $58. lpr.com 🇪🇸
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center
Marina Heredia “De lo jondo a Lorca” (Deep Lorca); is at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Concert Hall in Manhattan’s Upper West Side; on Friday, March 14, 2025 at 8pm. From $49. kaufmanmusiccenter.org 🇪🇸
New York City Center
Flamenco Festival New York City Center 2025 features three great and unique flamenco talents: Alfonso Losa & Patricia Guerrero, Compañía Manuel Liñán, and Compañía Eva Yerbabuena; at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; from Thursday-Sunday, March 6-9, 2025. From $45. nycitycenter.org 🇪🇸
Repertorio Español
Lorca’s classic play “La casa de Bernarda Alba,” tells how the repression of desire among women in a small Spanish village diminishes everyone; is at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, at 7pm. $32. repertorio.nyc 🇪🇸
Roulette Intermedium (Robert Browning Associates)
Antonio “El Turry,” featuring guitarist Paco Jarana, presents “La búsqueda del duende” (the search for Flamenco spirit), for Robert Browning Associates; at Roulette Intermedium in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn; on Friday, March 7, 2025 at 8pm. From $30 at the door, or $32.50 in advance. robertbrowningassociates.com 🇪🇸
Flamenco Festival New York 2024
This is the full Flamenco Festival New York 2024 schedule, out of Madrid.
Tomatito, who gained fame as Camarón de la Isla’s guitarist, plays flamenco for the World Music Institute and the Flamenco Festival New York; at The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, March 1, 2024 at 8pm. From $48. 🇪🇸
Alejandro Hurtado “Tamiz” brings Spanish flamenco guitar from Alicante, to the Flamenco Festival New York; at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 6pm (5:30pm doors). $30. 🇪🇸
Andres Barrios “Universo Lorca” with dancer Ana Almagro blends Spanish Flamenco with African Diaspora traditions, for the Flamenco Festival New York; at Instituto Cervantes New York in Midtown East, Manhattan; on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 7pm. $30. 🇪🇸
Rafael Riqueni “Nerja” brings the Spanish flamenco guitarist’s last chapter of his Andalusian trilogy inspired by the caves of southern Spain; to the Flamenco Festival New York; in Elebash Recital Hall at The Graduate Center (CUNY) in Murray Hill, Manhattan; on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 7pm. $35. 🇪🇸
Ballet Nacional de España “Invocación,” directed by Rubén Olmo, is an epic piece with 38 dancers dancing many flamenco styles including a tribute to Mario Maya, one of the creators of the Andalusian Flamenco Theater; for the Flamenco Festival New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; from Friday-Sunday, March 8-10, 2024. From $45. 🇪🇸
Antonia Jiménez and Inma La Carbonera “A Gaya” is Spanish guitar and vocals for Mother Earth and the Flamenco Festival New York; for Robert Browning Associates at Roulette Intermedium in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn; on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 8pm. From $31. 🇪🇸
Las Migas “Libres,” 2022 Latin Grammy winner for “Best Flamenco Album,” is an all-woman Spanish flamenco band with vocalist Carolina Fernández “La Chispa,” guitarists Marta Robles and Alicia Grillo, and violinist Laura Pacios. They play the Flamenco Festival New York; at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 6pm. 🇪🇸
Rycardo Moreno “Flamenco Meets Jazz,” pairs the Romani guitarist with Israeli guitarist Yotam Silberstein, and Spanish vocalist Celia Flores for the Flamenco Festival New York; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 7pm and 9pm. From $20. 🇪🇸 🇮🇱
Spanish Romani singer Israel Fernández and guitarist Diego Del Morao “Pura Sangre” is Spanish flamenco for the World Music Institute and Flamenco Festival New York; in Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center in Lincoln Square, Manhattan; on Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 8pm. From $45. 🇪🇸
Olga Pericet “La Leona;” is a solo piece for the Flamenco Festival New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, March 15, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $45. 🇪🇸
María José Llergo and Sandra Carrasco sing a contemporary flamenco double-bill for the World Music Institute at the Flamenco Festival New York; in the Main Space at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village, Manhattan: on Friday, March 15, 2024 at 8pm. From $30. 🇪🇸
Raul Cantizano featuring Los Voluble “Zona Acordonada” play multimedia experimental flamenco dance music for the Flamenco Festival New York; at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 8:30pm. From $30 plus fees and minimums. 🇪🇸
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