Spanish guitar, cajón and cantaor, played live in the room by musicians who have spent their careers inside the Flamenco tradition. StepFlix Entertainment books Flamenco musicians throughout South Florida as a standalone act: no dance show required, no stage required, and no amplification unless the venue calls for it.
A single guitarist can carry a two-hour cocktail reception on nylon strings alone. Add a cajón and the room picks up a pulse. Add a cantaor and the room goes quiet. Tell us the space, the hour and the mood you are after, and we will put the right lineup in front of your guests.
*Pricing varies by location and may also fluctuate depending on the day of the week and time of year.
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Four standard lineups, each built for a different room and a different moment in the evening. Every one of them can be adjusted to your schedule and your space.
One guitarist, seated, unamplified in most interiors. This is the right choice for cocktail hours, seated dinners, gallery openings, wine tastings and any occasion where the music should shape the atmosphere without competing with conversation.
Guitar plus a cajón player, the wooden box drum that supplies Flamenco’s percussion. The rhythm becomes audible without becoming loud. This lineup suits terrace parties, welcome receptions and the stretch of an evening between dinner service and dancing.
The full musical core of Flamenco: melody, percussion and voice. A cantaor sings in a register closer to lament than to song, and it changes the temperature of a room within a single verse. Book the trio when the music is meant to be listened to rather than simply heard.
Any lineup above can be paired with professional bailaoras and bailaores for a staged performance. If dance is the centerpiece rather than the addition, our Flamenco dancers for events page covers those packages and their pricing.
Solo Spanish guitar is the most requested booking we handle, and it is the most misunderstood. It is not background music in the sense of a playlist. A guitarist reads the room in real time, stretching a free-rhythm piece while guests are still arriving and tightening into something rhythmic once the room fills.
The repertoire draws on the slower, unmeasured palos for arrival and dining: granaína, taranta, rondeña, malagueña. These are played without a fixed beat, which is precisely why they sit under conversation so well. When the energy needs to lift, the guitarist moves into rumba flamenca, bulerías or alegrías, all of which carry an obvious pulse without demanding attention.
Practically, a solo guitarist needs a chair, roughly six feet of clear floor and a place to sit that is not directly beside a DJ booth or a kitchen door. Indoors, in most restaurants, ballrooms and residences, no amplification is necessary. Outdoors, or in a marble lobby where the reverb swallows detail, we bring a small acoustic amplifier and a single microphone.
Sets typically run 45 minutes with a 15-minute break, though we structure this around your timeline. If speeches or a program are scheduled, the guitarist plays through the arrival and the transitions and stops cleanly when the microphone goes live.
Flamenco’s rhythm does not come from a drum kit. It comes from the cajón, a hollow wooden box the player sits on and strikes with bare hands, and from palmas, the hand clapping that any musician on stage may add. Together they produce compás, the twelve-beat rhythmic cycle that underpins most of the tradition and that gives Flamenco its distinctive lurching accent pattern.
The cantaor is the element most clients have never heard live and most remember afterward. Cante is sung without vibrato, often with an audible strain in the voice, and the older forms of it are closer to a keening than to melody. Guests who came expecting pleasant Spanish guitar tend to stop talking about thirty seconds into the first verse.
A trio changes how the booking works. Where a solo guitarist can play continuously for two hours, a full ensemble is built around defined sets, usually two or three of twenty to thirty minutes each, positioned at points in your program where you want attention on the music. Between sets the guitarist can continue alone.
The trio needs about twelve feet of floor space, three chairs and, outdoors or in any room over roughly 150 guests, light amplification: two microphones and a small mixer, which we supply. There is no drum riser, no backline and no stage requirement. Load-in takes fifteen minutes.
Corporate bookings for live Flamenco music usually have a specific reason behind them. A Spanish or Latin American brand launching in the US market wants an authentic cultural signature rather than a generic string quartet. A conference welcome reception needs something with character that will not drown out first-night networking. A chamber of commerce dinner, a consulate reception or a museum patron evening wants music with a defensible connection to the program.
Live Flamenco music works in those settings for reasons that are largely logistical. The musicians are self-contained, they set up in a quarter of an hour, they need no stage or riser, and they can play at a volume that permits conversation and then lift it on cue. Our musicians are bilingual, which matters when the guest list is, and they can be briefed to start, stop and resume around a run of show.
For activations where the music needs to be visually distinctive as well as audible, the ensemble can be paired with dancers, or a guitarist can be positioned in a foyer or entrance as guests arrive rather than in the main room at all.
Because our musicians are acoustic and self-contained, they fit rooms a full production cannot. We regularly perform in hotel lobbies and lounges, restaurant dining rooms, tapas bars, wine dinners, art galleries, museum receptions, private residences, terraces and courtyards, and on yacht and country club decks where power and space are both limited.
Bookings run throughout the tri-county area of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, and we travel to the west coast and the Keys for events that justify the drive. Travel beyond Miami-Dade is quoted with the booking.
If you are unsure whether your space will work, send a photograph. We can usually tell from one picture whether the room needs amplification, and that answer often decides which lineup you should book.
Yes, and it is how most of these bookings are made. The musicians are booked independently of any dance performance, in whichever lineup fits the room. Dancers are an option rather than a requirement.
Nylon-string Spanish guitar, cajón for percussion, and the voice of the cantaor. Palmas, or rhythmic hand clapping, is performed by whichever musicians are not otherwise occupied and is part of the instrumentation rather than an ornament added to it. Zapateo, the percussion produced by a dancer’s footwork, enters only if dancers are part of the booking.
They are the same role, described in two languages. Cantaor is the masculine Spanish term and cantaora the feminine; both refer to a vocalist trained specifically in cante, the sung form of Flamenco, which is a distinct discipline from general Spanish or Latin vocal performance.
Both are available. Indoors, for gatherings under roughly 150 guests, we play acoustically and recommend it. For outdoor events, larger rooms or spaces with difficult acoustics, we bring a compact PA with microphones at no separate charge for equipment.
A solo guitarist needs about six feet of floor and a chair. A duo needs eight to ten feet, a trio about twelve. None of the lineups requires a stage, a riser or a dedicated power drop beyond a standard outlet when amplification is used.
A solo guitarist commonly plays 45 minutes on and 15 minutes off across a two- or three-hour window. Duos and trios are usually structured as two or three defined sets of 20 to 30 minutes, placed at chosen points in your program.
Within reason, yes. Our guitarists also play Spanish classical, bolero, bossa nova and Latin standards, and can learn a specific piece for a first dance or a processional if we have the request far enough in advance. Send the song and the date and we will confirm whether it is workable.
Four things, in roughly this order of impact: how many musicians are in the lineup, how long they play, where the event is held, and the calendar date itself, since weekends and high season are priced differently. Amplification, if needed, is included. A quote is issued once we have the date and the venue address.
Tell us the date, the venue and roughly how many guests, and we will recommend a lineup and quote it. If you are still deciding between a musical booking and a full performance, it is worth comparing this against our Flamenco dancers and dance shows, where the music supports the choreography rather than standing on its own.
Start with a free consultation. Send us the date, the venue and roughly how many guests, and we’ll come back with a lineup and a quote.
