Tori Sparks & El Mar (USA/ESP) - American Roots Music meets Flamenco Fusion

Tori Sparks & El Mar at the Kulturfabrik Kufstein. Tori Sparks originally hails from Chicago; she later lived and recorded four albums in Nashville, but always spent most of her time on tour. In 2011, Tori Sparks moved from Nashville to Barcelona and within a few years had already made her mark in her new home. In 2018, rock magazine Popular1 included Sparks in its list of the five most important female voices in Spain; in 2019, she received the Rock Artist of the Year award from No Solo Cine magazine; her voice can be heard on soundtracks (Criminal Minds, Félix, Sky Rojo, others). AMERICAN ROOTS MEETS FLAMENCO FUSION: Tori's fifth album, El Mar (Glass Mountain Records, 2014), was her first collaboration with Barcelona-based flamenco fusion trio Calamento and electric guitarist El Rubio. Her unusual bilingual mix of blues, rock, folk and flamenco began as a side project but quickly developed into an international success, described as ‘adventurous, boundary-breaking’ (Rolling Stone) and ‘pure art’ (Los Conciertos de Radio3). Their strength as live performers lies in their ability to seamlessly blend musical genres and appeal to audiences from all walks of life, whether in front of 100 people in a small club or 30,000 at renowned festivals such as the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Bele Chere (USA), Festival Jardins Pedralbes (Spain), Su La Testa (Italy) and others.