22/03/2010 Bailaores Guitar Festivals Festival de Jerez 2010 Flamencos Dance Shows Music Singing News

Day 12 of the Jerez Festival: Manuel Valencia, Kina Méndez, La Farruca & Belén López

Guitarist Manuel Valencia and singer Kina Méndez, both from Jerez, vindicated the value of the most recent generations of flamenco artists in the Los Conciertos de Palacio cycle. Valencia is representative of the most primordial of guitar playing, but still preserves a contemporary apex. He has absorbed the knowledge of older flamenco guitarists, such as Manuel Morao, and current guitarists, such as Gerardo Núñez, in equal parts...

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19/03/2010 Bailaores Guitar Festivals Festival de Jerez 2010 Flamencos Dance Shows Music Singing News Legends

Day 11 of the Jerez Festival: Silvia Durán, El Londro & Belén Maya

Silvia Durán, another legend of dance, was the third protagonist of the Con Nombre Propio: Vivencias cycle. Silvia Durán, whose interview was moderated by the journalist Rosalía Gómez, is an internationally renowned artist who was trained by the best...

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18/03/2010 Festivals Flamencos Shows Singing News

Los Veranos del Corral in Granada

One more year, and now its 12 years that the flamenco cycle Los Veranos del Corral is celebrated in Granada. Sixteen performances will delight flamenco aficionados from July 19 to August 12. An attractive event to enhance the summer in this Andalusian city.

The goal of this edition is to join tradition with modernity to demonstrate the value of flamenco’s cultural heritage bid.

To reach this goal, nearly 30 young and veteran artists will bring their art to the stage in 16 shows. The singer from Granada Marina Heredia is responsible for inaugurating this cycle. However David Lagos, Belén Maya, Juan Pinilla, Ana Morales, a prize winner at the last edition of the La Unión Festival and Jesús Méndez, a member of one of Jerez’s principal song legacies, will also be performing.

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17/03/2010 Bailaores Flamencos Tablaos Legends

The Sad Loss of Dancer “Rafael el Negro”

The flamenco world mourns the loss of the dancer Rafael García Rodríguez, known as ‘Rafael El Negro,’ at the age of 74. Rafael passed away this morning at Seville’s Infanta Luisa Hospital, where he was receiving treatment since Christmas. His wife, dancer Matilde Coral, with whom he had three children, was with him.

Born in Triana, he made history in the flamenco world thanks to his purity of dance, as he was considered one of the most elegant bailaores of his generation...

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17/03/2010 Bailaores Festivals Festival de Jerez 2010 Flamencos Dance Shows Music Singing News

Day 10 of the Jerez Festival: Patricia Ibáñez, Abel Harana, Joaquín Grilo & Soniquete

In the Los Novismos cycle, the dancer from Sanlucar Abel Harana and the dancer from Jerez Patricia Ibáñez debuted their show “Memoria Antigua” with which they intended to recover the styles that have fallen into disuse, such as the seguiriya de Frijones from Jerez, las cantiñas from Pastora and Lebrija, the romances del ciclo carolingio, and the zángano from Puente Genil. Trained in the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía, the two dancers face the challenge of succeeding as solo artists...

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