Paco Peña in Toronto

Considered one of the world’s foremost traditional Flamenco players, Spanish flamenco composer and guitarist Paco Peña is on tour in the USA and Canada.

Spain, flamenco and Paco Peña are indelibly linked. Since moving to London in the late 1960s, the now septuagenarian Andalusian has popularized flamenco on a global level, playing shows with Jimi Hendrix, setting up the first university course in flamenco guitar, founding the famous Córdoba International Guitar Festival in his hometown, and performing around the world with his elite company of guitarists, singers and dancers.

Mr. Peña is a virtuoso, capable of dazzling an audience beyond the frets of mortal man. He combines rapid-fire flourishes with a colorist’s sense of shading; this listener cannot recall hearing any guitarist with a more assured mastery of his instrument. It should come as no surprise that readers of America’s Guitar magazine judged Paco Peña Best Flamenco Guitarist of the Year for five consecutive years.

—The New York Times

Artists

• Guitars: Paco Peña, Rafael Montilla, Paco Arriaga.
• Dancers: Angel Muñoz, Yolanda Osuna Linares, Daniela Tugues.
• Singers: Inmaculada Rivero and Bernardo Miranda Luna.
• Percussion: Ignacio Lopez.