Rafael Riqueni

A family tragedy broke his career and sparked a psychiatric illness that has taken to an edge for years to flamenco lovers , whom suddenly saw that one of the most exquisite and personal guitarists of the generation that succeeded Paco de Lucia was rushing in a black cast with an uncertain end. Exceptional circumstances that help to understand the wait that caused the concert offered tonight at the Lope de Vega, for which the invitations have been exhausted.

It will be his first performance in Seville, where he was born in 1962 - the last five years, and will serve to present  his new job, that will see the light at the end of the year, ending a gap of recording silence opened 15 years ago . The Catalan singer Mayte Martin came to town last night to accompany him today, from 21:00 in the interpretation of Parque de María Luisa, an album with the collaboration of Estrella Morente, a tribute to friendship and admiration that Enrique Morente professed and guitarist from Seville, Manuel Calleja, and that Riqueni means a "reunion with great memories, with times that are gone but I still have in the heart", a "reunion with everything," he added.

Yoko Komatsubara

Yoko Komatsubara, a veteran dancer, choreographer and flamenco of several schools in Japan that will perform her new show, "Flamenco Passion" in 16 Japanese cities in collaboration with the "Instituto Andaluz del Flamenco", stated: "Flamenco is almost our art in Japan. "

With over two hundred students of flamenco dance, distributed in twelve academies in Japan, with headquarters in Tokyo,  Komatsubara is in  charge of the direction and choreography, in collaboration with Currillo de Bormujos, of "Passion of flamenco," which will run between September the 20th and October the 14th.

The director says her ambition is that flamenco is better known around the world and even more deeply in Japan, which calls for annual competition among its students and scholarship winners to stay in "sevillanas" academies, working in this She also collaborates in this flamenco promotion with the Min-on Japanese Foundation, a state entity dedicated to establishing cultural links between different cultures.

Estrella Morente

Estrella Morente vuelve a Lisboa el 15 de septiembre para encabezar la IV edición del festival de flamenco de la capital lusa, después de más de cuatro años de celebrar su primer concierto en Portugal.

La artista granadina, de 30 años, dio sus últimos y primeros conciertos en Portugal en junio de 2007, en Oporto y en Lisboa, dentro de una gira conjunta con la cantante portuguesa Dulce Pontes, una de las máximas representantes del nuevo fado portugués.

Reconocida internacionalmente, Estrella Morente ha heredado el talento de su padre.

Estrella ha sido galardonada con el premio ONDAS a la Mejor Creación de Flamenco, dos premios AMIGO y una candidatura a los Grammy Latinos.

51º Edición Cante de las Mina

 The Union "Ciudad minera y flamenca". That's the way The Union greets its visitors when they get to the frontier of the municipal territory. And since tuesday, the 2nd of August till the next 13th, a longer period than before, its streets, its people, its Public Market, will take in, in the miner mountain the best
flamenco of this country, in the 51st edition of the Cante Festival of "Cante de las Minas".

On the second of august, the first activities will take place, always free, of the cultural agenda prepared by the Town Hall. The "Cante de las Minas" museum, located in the "Casa de Piñón",  will be open to the public and will inagurate the "II Jornadas Gatronómicas Flamencas", and a photographic exhibition about the "Inolvidables del Flamenco". All this to heat motors until the official start of the Festival, on the 4th.

With the opening speech of Carlos Herrera, the first performances of this 2011 will be held by the winners of the competition of last year: Miguel Ortega, (Lámpara Miner), Francisco Moncayo (Bordón Minero), Jesús Fernández (Desplante) and Abdón Alcara (Filón).
The entry to the Public Market the first day will be free.
One lighted the carbides in the Cante Cathedral, the Flamenco will flow amongst the village easily.

Arcangel y Quinter

 The "cantaor"of Huelva will offer us, on thursday and friday the 16th and 17th of june, in the Quintero Théater of Seville, his new show, "a journey of the tradition to the transgression", in which he will perform some of the themes that belong to his new album, "Quijote of the dreams, smell of land".
"Smell of the land"is the name of his new show that makes reference to"that smell of the wet land so characteristic in Andalucia, and that reminds him of his childhood", according to the organisation, after the presentation this friday in the Quintero Théater of the andalousian capital.
As a big flamenco artist, Arcángel is sourrounded by the best company. For this show he will be performing with a team of artists like Miguel Ángel Cortés and Daniel Méndez to the guitar and Agustín Diassera in charge of the percussion