The best castanets may vary from person to person, depending on each individual’s needs, but it’s not hard to miss a nice pair of castanets when you see them. While most castanets have a few ...

You could find plenty of castanets on sale in the lobby but none on the stage of the Irvine Barclay Theatre when Yaelisa and her Bay Area-based Caminos Flamencos performed as part of the New World ...

Raymond Raposa has been giving us itinerant folk songs as Castanets since the heyday of freak-folk, but he’s survived and evolved. “Out For The West,” the lead single from Castanets ...

Castanets commanding and enticing, sleek black gowns, ruffled white gowns, gowns with all the colors of a peacock’s tail—with these to Manhattan last week returned Dancer Argentina (real name ...

Flamenco contains all the human emotions. It is a tripartite artistic expression — laying down its own gauntlet with dance, guitar and vocal style. Visually its speed, its twists, its ...

According to the Castanets’ biography, frontman Raymond Raposa tested out of high school at age 15, spending the next few years traveling via Greyhound bus. The songs on First Light’s Freeze ...

Teresa Champion, handpicked by John Wayne for "The Alamo," brought flamenco to San Antonio and teaches passionately at her ...

Ray Raposa, the folk artist best known for his music as Castanets, has died at age 41. Via Pitchfork, the news came via Sufjan Stevens‘ Asthmatic Kitty label, who released much of Raposa’s ...

Raymond Raposa—the singer-songwriter who recorded under the name Castanets—has died at the age of 41. Raposa’s longtime label Asthmatic Kitty confirmed the news earlier today (July 30 ...