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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22/03/2010 Bailaores Festivals Seville Dance Shows Music Singing News

Tickets for the Seville Flamenco Biennial go on Sale Today

As of March 22nd tickets for any of the over 50 shows programmed as part of the Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla are officially on sale. This is an event that flamenco lovers won’t want to miss, with six cycles to choose from: ‘To the sound of the stars,’ ‘Flamenco for children,’ ‘Flamenco to come,’ ‘Classics of the XXI Century,’ ‘Flamenco and other birds’ and ‘The jondo of the future.’

In total, there will be 58,000 seats on sale, with prices ranging from 4 Euros for shows at the Teatro Alameda to 45 Euros for performances at the Teatro Maestranza. There are prices to suit all wallets, making flamenco available to a heterogeneous and diverse public...

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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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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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16/03/2010 Festival de Jerez 2010 Flamencos Dance Shows Music Singing News

Day 9 of the Jerez Festival: María del Mar Moreno, Juana la del Pipa, Dolores Agujeta & La Macanita

The dancer from Jerez María del Mar Moreno, and her company “Jerez Puro”, returned to the festival with their new show “Quiero tu cante” (I want your song). Moreno’s new proposal rests on the consecrated voices of the flamenco world and searches for “that song that intoxicates her, that enamors her, that transforms her into several women, that makes her happy and that frees her deepest feelings, good and bad.” To make this a successful proposal, María relies on the haunting voices of Antonio Malena, Juana la del Pipa, Tomasa Guerrero “La Macanita”, Manuel de Malena and David Lagos. Guitarist José Luis Montón joined them...

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