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

The initial hook for me was the fact that they were playing ... guitar player rather than a classical one, but I borrowed a lot of things from the classical world. What about the flamenco world?

By Marina Harss For Olga Pericet, flamenco ... wears a man’s suit and dances a farruca, a traditionally male dance. Later, she performs a dance with castanets, to 19th-century guitar music.

The young Peña spent a few years doing clerical jobs, playing guitar ... the wrong man. “It was a sizeable amount of money,” shrugs Peña, “but I couldn’t do it. I love flamenco too ...