LADERA RANCH – Monica Esparza says she works two full-time jobs, one as the manager of distribution and accounts for her family’s drink distribution business and the other as a classical guitar maker.

ALSEA, Ore. (AP) - A love for flamenco guitar brought John Shelton and Susan Farretta together during college in the mid-1960s. It was only the beginning for Shelton-Farretta Guitars. “John was always ...

“I always try to put a little bit of my soul in the guitar,” says Maria Conde of the handcrafted flamenco instruments she creates at the Conde Hermanos workshop in Madrid. The Conde family has been ...

The most famous guitar group in the world works without an amp, never played a rock song and probably couldn`t hum a Top 10 tune if its career depended on it. In fact, the members always perform in ...

You wouldn’t think Beethoven’s most popular piano piece would work transcribed into castanet-tempting, flamenco guitar greatness. But, boy it really does. And the fiery flamenco finale is an ending ...

Witnessing a performance of flamenco music, with percussive guitar strumming that’s alternately lyrical and explosive and equally expressive dancing that sometimes accompanies the playing, it’s easy ...