Rarefolk has distinguished itself as one of the most creative and unclassifiable instrumental music bands on the Spanish scene. Over 20 year and 5 edited albums back the group’s career, which has been characterized by the ability to reinvent itself. This demand for constant evolution and the search for its own defining language sets it apart from other musical projects.

The demonstrate a unique vision in which celtic music embraces rock and electronic avant-garde. The result is a deliciously elaborate sound charged with energy. The highly personal style that Rarefolk has created has been defined by specialized press as “Free Style Folk”.

Their participation in international festivals of such magnitude as Sai Festival (Ireland), Ollin Kan (Mexico), Montelago Celtic Festival (Italy), Ortigueira, Getxo Folk and Etnosur (Spain), and collaborations in their most recent record “GO” (2011) by Cathy Jordan (Dervish) and Dee Armstrong (Kila), as well as the incorporation of the violinist Leslie Jordan to the band, position Rarefolk as one of the main exponents of New Music on an international level.

Flamenco Hoy is the first live work directed by the great Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura, awarded and nominated in all the relevant film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Montreal, or San Sebastian, and including several award nominations.

For the staging Saura has relayed in more than 20 artists of the new generation; all of them fully talented and very well known in their fields, displaying a live show, brilliant, full of strength and energy.

The dancing, consisting of eleven excellent dancers whose spirited choreography is created by the geniuses Rafael Estevez and  Nani Paños, appears with its many deep rooted traditions acquired over the centuries and its use of new genres like jazz and contemporary.

The singing is represented by four outstanding cantaores who interpreted the compositions and arrangements of Chano Dominguez, internationally renowned Spanish pianist and several times nominated for a Grammy.

Flamenco Hoy brings together the Nanaes, Sevillanas, Tangos, Peteneras, Farrucas, Saetas, Fandangos, Guajiras, Malagueñas, Seguiriyas, Soleares, Zambras, Alegrías, Bulerías , and all Through the eyes of Carlos Saura, impregnating a the work with his special conception of light and space, tempo and movement.