Los Tarantos Barcelona

In the fall of 1963, a year after the premiere of the film of the same name by Francisco Robira Beleta, the tablao Los Tarantos opened in Plaza Reial, a place destined to become an indispensable point of reference for flamenco in Barcelona. Decorated in a unique way with traditional touches, this place in Barcelona soon became the meeting place for a very mixed crowd, where the people of the flamenco world mingled with intellectuals, music lovers, tourists and famous people who passed by the city. .. The club received an important boost after the closing of the neighboring club Jamboree in 1968, bringing a considerable part of the clientele from the jazz cellar to Los Tarantos. In a few years, this tablao became one of the places to visit in Barcelona at night. The success of the place was largely thanks to the quality of the artists who played there.

From the beginning, the directors of Los Tarantos clearly chose the best flamenco stars of the moment to take the stage. With a mentality open to all tendencies within the genre, from the novel to the most orthodox, club managers programmed artists such as flamenco dancers Vicente Escudero, Antonio Gades, Maria Marquez, Jose de la Vega and La Tolea; the guitarists Andrés Batista, Emilio de Diego

On October 3, 1993, the tablao Los Tarantos reopened after complete architectural renovations that, respecting the original essence of the place, lent it a new infrastructure and connected it with the neighboring Jamboree. The Mas i Mas group, which had taken over the historic jazz cellar a few months earlier, was responsible for the renovation of the historic site. With the initial help of the producer Posto Nove, Mas i Mas chose to combine the traditional flamenco sessions with a series of ambitious acts with new and well-established flamenco artists and, as a novelty, world music figures and singers and composers.