23/06/2010 Guitar Festivals Singing Madrid News

The "Veranos de la Villa" celebrate its 25. anniversary with the aim of "moving the culture closer to the citizens".

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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14/06/2010 Suma Flamenca Bailaores Festivals Shows Music Singing Madrid News

Enrique Morente and Antonio Canales two figures in the third week of Suma Flamenca 2010

Enrique Morente en la tercera semana de la Suma Flamenca 2010

Enrique Morente in Suma Flamenca 2010

The third week of the V. Edition of the Flamenco Festival of Madrid, Suma Flamenca 2010, will offer five shows (three singing shows and two dance shows). They will take place at the Canal Theaters, having some great artists like Enrique Morente, Pastora Galván and Joaquín Grillo, Juan Valderrama, Argentina and Antonio, Antonio Canales and Amador Rojas, according to the information provided by the festival's organisation. The third week of the festival will start tomorrow with the musical performance of the master Enrique Morente, who will offer a classical flamenco concert, at 8.30pm. That will be the prelude of the Flamenco Bienal of Sevilla. The show of Pastora Galván "Bailes" will be presented next Wednesday 16. On Thursday the festival will offer a recital titles "Maestros", where the voice and the guitare are fitting in with the piano and violins harmonic richness". On Friday 18. Argentino will sing by tangos, bulerias, soleas, alegrias, fandangos and rumbas accompanied by guitars, piano, trumpet, percussion, palmas, choirs and Manuel Parrila as guest star. The concert will take place on Friday 18. at 8.30pm. And the last show of this third week will be dedicated to the dance, when Antonio Canales will dance with his pupil Amador Rojas during "Alternativa". We will discover the experience of one of the greatest dancers and the youth of the new generation.

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10/06/2010 Bailaores Festivals Flamencos Dance Shows News

Estrella Morente and The Argentinian ballet of Julio Bocca will shine in the 51. edition of the Festival Cueva in Nerja.

Estrella Morente

This is the 51. edition of this competition with a program that includes the tango company of Julio Bocca and the ballet of the National Theater from Praga.

The International Festival of Music and Dance of the Cueva de Nerja, the most veteran and genuine of the Malaga region, is living its 51. edition with the presence of Estrella Morente and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Spanish Radio Television (RTVE).

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04/06/2010 Suma Flamenca Festivals Shows Singing News

Estrella Morente opens the V Festival Flamenco Community

""Tablaos", "cante", dance, and feeling are the ingredients that converge this friday, 4th of june, at the starting signal of "Suma Flamenca", in the Flamenco Festival of the Community of Madrid, that will take place during the next weeks till the 2nd of july. Estrella Morente will open the Festival in the Auditorio Théater of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, but she won´t be the only one that will act in the opening, because there are other 6 shows schéduled in three other councils of Madrid almost at the same time.
For example, in the Salón Cervantes of Alcalá Théater, one of the best guitars of the flamenco history, Enrique de Melchor's one,will play for those who will assist. Melchor will be accompanied by three musicians, at the guitar, flute and percussion, one "cantaor, two "cantaoras" doing chorus and "compás", and one "bailaora". Paco Taranto, the extremaduran Guadiana or Capullo de Jerez, Juana la del Pipa and Mariana Cornejo in the tribute "Remembering Chano Lobato", will meet tonight in different places of the Community.

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01/06/2010 Festivals Shows News

Vicente Amigo Flamenco Summit opens the CAM

Vicente Amigo

During three days, we will see the performances of "El Lebrijano" and Carmen and Matilde Rubio Spanish
Ballet of Murcia company.

The Flamenco Summit of Caja Mediterráneo (CAM) opens with the performance of the Guitar player Vicente Amigo, in a stage that changes location this year and will be celebrated in the Plaza del Cardenal Belluga, with the image of the cathedral and the shows of the Carmen and Matilde Rubio Spanish Ballet of Murcia Company and the "cantaor" Juan Peña "El Lebrijano".

These are the artists that will take part in the XVII edition of this festival, an historic event of the "Caja" and that year after year gets out of control, said the territorial president of CAM, Angel Martínez. The location where it's normally celebrated, The Romea theater, is closed for repairs, and the installations of the institution are getting smaller.

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