Dani will be appearing every Sunday at Peña Pachamama in San Francisco beginning July 25 with Calolina Lugo's Brisas de España Flamenco Dance Company - featuring dancer Carolé Acuña, Shows at 6 and 7 p.m - 1630 Powell Street S.F. ph 415.646.0018.

To Order Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/106149

 Click here for Dani's "Son de California" cd

Soleà . . . Fandangos . . . Alegrìas . . . Bulerìa . . . Sevillanas . . . Zambra . . . Tanguillos . . . Farruca – names of dances, songs and guitar music of Andalusia in southern Spain known to the world as the art of flamenco – names that evoke a mixture of pleasure, excitement, deep reflection, nostalgia, sadness, calm or humor – frenzied, wry, or gentle – depending on the form (palo, or genre, of which dozens remain) . Before modern times wrought artistic revolutions commensurate with changes in the world around – innovations necessary, many believe, for the survival of the art- when the first and second generations of Spanish gypsy (calè, or Roma) and other Andalusian (payo, or non-gypsy) flamenco guitarists to record their music did so in the 1930s, the music, perhaps, might have sounded like this – maybe, way back when, they played it like that, the great Spanish gypsy flamenco guitarists of the twentieth century: Ramòn Montoya, Diego del Gastor, Niño Ricardo, Sabicas, Esteban Sanlùcar, Mario Escudero and others known or unknown – more simply, and, some say, with more soul in each of the notes that came out of the guitar . . .
D.T.
Back Cover of the CD
cd back Spanish Version
© 2003,2009 Elefunt Music

Sample Tracks
 SoleaDemo.mp3 FarrucaDemo.mp3
Mantilla.mp3

Dani Torres BIO
Daniel Torres is a performer, instructor, recording artist, composer, arranger, interpreter, soloist and accompanist, primarily on guitar and other stringed instruments, voice, and percussion, in traditional as well as contemporary dance musics, from performance to popular, of the Americas and beyond, in addition to having worked as a teacher, writer, interpreter and researcher in both English and Spanish, since the late 1980s. 

Dani has been playing flamenco guitar since 1988. Through studies in California with Paco Arroyo and Agustin Rios, as well as in Spain with Mario Escudero Enrique de Melchor, and others, he is known as a versatile accompanist of cante (song) and baile (dance), having played in concerts and workshops with artists like Jesus Montoya, La Tania, El Pollito, and Concha Vargas. Dani strives to balance creativity and authenticity in his art, while also exploring music of Latin America, the Middle East, and elsewhere, as well as collaborating with other arts and media such as cooking, painting, poetry & theater.