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09/27/2010

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"Tomatito" entusiasma al público del sevillano Teatro del Maestranza con su espectáculo "Luz de guía"

The guitarist José Fernandez Torres "Tomatito" made enthusiastic the public of the sevillan Maestranza theatre with hisshow "Luz de guía (The eternal twinkle)", title dedicated to the singer Camaron de la Isla, of whom he has been the guitaristduring 20 years and with whom he started at 15 years old.
The guitarist did not play except at the begining of the concert, a "taranta" which ended up by "fandangos", accompaniedby a second guitar, two percussionists and the voice of three singers, like Simón Román and Juanito de Íllora."Tomatito" has been received by an ovation when he came to the sober stage, on which everything was black except theguitar and the shirt of the master. Just the lights seed to dye of a light blue the background of the stage when the guitarist and his accompanists launched into the liveliest palos and the most rhytmical compositions.

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Paco de Lucía makes speak his guitar and acts in the Axerquia Theatre.

Guitar Festivals Shows News

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07/26/2010

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Guitar Festivals Shows News

The mastery of Paco de lucia, the genius of the six strings, has been showed once again on the Tablas of the Axerquía Theatre on Saturday night. Once again, in Córdoba, we could enjoy the best artist that the flamenco gave until now.

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07/14/2010

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Guitar Music News

Combina la guitarra flamenca de Juan Diego con la eléctrica de Jorge.

Mixtolobo

"When I began to sell this show, someone asked: What is that exactly? The music has always been international and we cannot lock it.", said the guitar player Juan Diego, who is accompanied by Jorge Gómez in this prject called "Mixtolobo". "We are young and we like to party", said both of them. Their offer combines the flamenco guitar of Juan Diego and the electric one of Jorge. "I am the flamenco part and he is the rock'n'roll!", said the artists from Jerez, trained by El Carbonero, José Luis Balao and Manolo Sanlúcar.

With this music they are trying to bring "an alternative vision of flamenco, a way to extend its vocabulary". Accompanied by the electric bass of Ignacio Cintado and the percussion of Juan Peña "Chispa", they perform a romance of the disc "Luminaria", by Juan Diego, second disc in solo, recorded in the United States and about to be published. They will also perform a rumba "Dieguito" and an extended version of "Malika". For the most rock'n'roll part, Jorge Gómez will contribute with some personal compositions and he also dares with Jimi Hendrix.

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06/23/2010

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Guitar Festivals Singing Madrid News

Paco de Lucía

On June 29. Paco de Lucia will initiate the festival on the Puerta del Angel stage, one of the main stage with the Sabatini Gardens. This event will be introduced by the mayor hiself, Alberto Ruiz Gallardon.
The festival bets on the theater, the zarzuela and the movies, but the main course is the music, with the shows of Diana Krall, Marianne Faithfull, ELvis Costello, Youssou N'Dour, Sinead O'Connor or the Portuguese singer Adriana Calcanhotto.
This festival is one of the identity sign of the city with an impressive musical offer, but also a lot of dance and theater. The Puerta del Angel stage, the Sabatini Gardens, the different streets and squares of the capital, but also some local and private theaters and live bars will offer some of the 150 shows during July and August.

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04/15/2010

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Palos Guitar Singing

El flamenco es un arte que se ha internacionalizado desde Andalucía, pero el camino no ha sido siempre en ese sentido. Al tratarse de un compás popular, ha recogido de las calles toda su esencia y los diferentes palos tienen una historia que contar, acaso gitana, acaso alegre o dramática, más allá de su letra.

Este es el caso de la Farruca. Se trata de uno de los palos más recientes del flamenco y su origen lo encontramos en Galicia y Asturias. De hecho, ‘farruca’ es una palabra de origen gallego que significa ‘cante de los gallegos’. Esta forma mestiza comenzó su andadura cruzando España de punta a punta para cobrar identidad propia flamenca. Su origen se encuentra por tanto ligado al folclore del Norte de España. Los movimientos demográficos de mediados del siglo XIX hicieron que los mozos y temporeros que acudían a trabajar a Andalucía trajeran con ellos este cante. Luego, el tiempo, la adaptación y el mestizaje con músicos andaluces le proporcionó compás flamenco. Esta nueva versión, interpretada con aire de soleá, fue la que poco a poco se fue popularizando en la primera mitad del siglo XX.

Sin embargo, en nuestros días la farruca como cante no se escucha frecuentemente. Vivió sus momentos de mayor gloria de la mano de Manuel Torre (1878-1933) y posteriormente al ser interpretada con voz de falsete femenina en la obra ‘Alma de Dios’.

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04/14/2010

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Guitar Flamencos Singing Legends

Aunque ahora se han convertido en clásicos de este arte, en los años 70, cuando la pareja comenzó su andadura profesional, fueron precursores del conocido como ‘nuevo flamenco’. Su toque y su cante comenzaban a expandirse más allá de los aficionados estrictamente al flamenco, abarcando un público más heterogéneo.

Iniciaron la senda del flamenco fusión que luego otros muchos seguirían alcanzando grandes éxitos. Los aires hippies que llegaban desde Estados Unidos y recorrían Europa fueron una de las mayores influencias para esta pareja, afectando tanto a la música como a las letras. De hecho, las letras dejaban de lado la amargura y la pena que caracterizan a numerosos palos flamencos, dedicándose a la paz, las flores y el amor. Todo ello de la mano del poeta Juan Manuel Flores.

Lole (Dolores Montoya Rodríguez) procede de familia de gran arraigo y tradición flamenca, hija de La Negra, comenzó en el baile hasta dedicarse al cante junto a Manuel. Por su parte Manuel Molina llevaba desde niño en el mundo del flamenco y a los doce años ya formaba parte del trío ‘Los gitanillos del Tardón’ junto a Chiquetete y El Rubio.

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03/30/2010

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Guitar Flamencos Legends

It’s a landmark in maestro guitarist Paco de Lucía’s personal history, and also for flamenco history. On May 8th, this internationally renowned artist will be vested as Doctor Honoris Causa by the Berklee Collage of Music, a private university in Boston, Massachussets (USA). Those responsible for awarding this great academic distinction believe that “his music and artistic vision has influenced several generations of musicians and have contributed to the transmission of flamenco to an international public”.

Francisco Sánchez Gómes, known artistically as Paco de Lucía, was born in Algeciras (Cádiz) in 1947, where his internationally renowned career began decades ago, when flamenco was no longer a music for private parties and began to be performed in tablaos around Spain and throughout the world.

Paco de Lucía’s tremendous success isn’t due solely to his work as a flamenco guitarist, but also because he has influenced other styles of music, and this award in particular has expanded his sphere of influence from the purely musical and comercial to the academic, wrapping this flamenco musician’s work in a nimbus of respect even more grandiose than before.

The son of a Spanish father and a Portuguese mother, this is not the first distinction De Lucía has received. In Spain, he has received every award an artista could deesire: National Flamenco Art Prize for Guitar, Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts, Honorary Distinction in the Music Awards, Prince of Asturias Prize for the Arts and Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Cádiz.