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Suma Flamenca 2020
The sound world of Enrique Morente, at Suma Flamenca 2020
Rafael Riqueni
The XV Festival Suma Flamenca of the Community of Madrid is held from December 1st to 20th. Carmen Linares, Pepe Habichuela, Eva Yerbabuena, Javier Latorre, Estrella Morente, Rafael Riqueni and Mayte Martín perform in this edition. The program is complemented by the exhibition 'Morente Siempre'.
The XV Festival Suma Flamenca of the Community of Madrid presents its program, which for the first time will be a conceptual edition, evoking the sound world of Enrique Morente through the talent of artists from various generations. It is Antonio Benamargo's first project as director of the festival, which takes place from December 1st to 20th in Madrid, with 37 concerts, 17 of which are premieres.
Carmen Linares celebrates her 40-year career
Carmen Linares celebrates her 40-year career at the Cervantes Theater in Malaga
Carmen Linares
Carmen Linares, the great lady of flamenco, celebrates this Saturday (4:00 pm) her 40-year career at the Cervantes Theater in Malaga. It will be clothed for the occasion of Salvador Gutiérrez and Eduardo Pacheco, to the touch; Pablo Suárez, at the piano; Josemi Garzón, on bass; Karo Sampela, on percussion; Ana María González and Rosario Amador, to the choirs and clapping; Vanesa Aibar, to the dance; and Juan Valderrama, as guest artist.
The flamenco singer will offer a selection of the best of her four decades dedicated to flamenco. "This is my great tribute to flamenco art. On my 40th anniversary I feel proud of where I came from as an artist and as a woman in music," she says.
Ciclo Flamenco10
Manuel Lombo y Farruquito cerrarán en Marbella el ciclo Flamenco10 para Málaga
Manuel Lombo y Farruquito
Manuel Lombo y Farruquito cerrarán en Marbella el ciclo Flamenco10, con el que el Instituto Andaluz del Flamenco conmemora el décimo aniversario del nombramiento del Flamenco como Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO, para Málaga. La cita con el cantaor nazareno es el 6 de diciembre y con el bailaor sevillano, el día 13, en ambos casos en el Teatro Ciudad de Marbella a las 12.00 horas.
Lombo presenta su disco ‘Lombo x Bambino‘ y por su parte, Farruquito lleva a las tablas del teatro marbellí su espectáculo ‘Íntimo’.
Latin Grammy for Best Flamenco Music Album
Antonio Rey, Latin Grammy for ‘Flamenco sin borders’, the Best Flamenco Music Album
The Juan Breva and Acompasao de Vélez-Málaga Festivals
The Juan Breva and Acompasao de Vélez-Málaga Festivals will be broadcast online
The Juan Breva and Acompasao de Vélez-Málaga Festivals
The Juan Breva and Acompasao de Vélez-Málaga Festivals will be broadcast online next December 12th, both on YouTube, and on the social networks of Vélez-Málaga and Flamenco Abierto Axarquía, as well as on local TV.
Both festivals were recorded on video, behind closed doors and without public, for security reasons, during the month of September in the cloister of the San Francisco Convent and in the Cerro de San Cristobal Auditorium.
The Department of Culture of Vélez-Málaga, birthplace of the legendary Juan Breva, aware of the complex situation that the cultural sector is going through due to the restrictions imposed by COVID-19, to support the cultural fabric of the city and the region of the Axarquía, has decided to organize, together with the collective Flamenco Abierto Axarquía, festivals and consolidations such as the Juan Breva Flamenco Festival and the Acompasao del Cerro Fusion Festival, in addition to creating a new cycle called Flamenco in San Francisco.
Rafael Riqueni
Riqueni, two flamenco zambombas and Flamenco del XIX, in December at the Cervantes in Malaga
Rafael Riqueni
Rafael Riqueni, two flamenco zambombas (by Antonio de Verónica and Alejandro Estrada) and the show El Flamenco del Siglo XIX, directed by the flamencologist Ramón Soler, make up the flamenco program of the Teatro Cervantes in Malaga in December.
The Triana guitarist, awarded this year with the Giraldillo for his artistic career at the Seville Biennial and the Guitarra con Alma Award at the Jerez Festival, will present his album 'Herencia' on Sunday 27th, consisting of original compositions with which he recognizes the teaching of artists such as Paco de Lucía, Mario Maya, Pepe Habichuela, Tomatito, Morente or Manolo Sanlúcar, among others.
The two zambombas repeat after convincing in previous years. The first is brought to us on Sunday the 13th by the family of dancers Antonio de Verónica and Saray Cortés. "His Zambomba Flamenca is a guarantee of tradition, roots and mastery of technique", according to the promotional note. That of the Malaga-born cantaor Alejandro Estrada, on Saturday 26, "is another total party, with an important artistic cast and traditional Christmas carols composed by him."
Flamenco Viene del Sur
Flamenco Viene del Sur meets El Pele and Rancapino Chico with Jesús Méndez in Jerez
Jesús Méndez and Rancapino Chico
Flamenco Viene del Sur meets El Pele and Rancapino Chico with Jesús Méndez in Jerez. The recitals that would take place in Granada will be moved to the Villarmarta Theater in Jerez on November 21th and 22th respectively.
The Flamenco Viene del Sur cycle organized by the Andalusian Institute of Flamenco of the Junta de Andalucía is adapting its programming to the new Covid measures that restrict mobility and prohibit certain activities.
Now specifically, the next performances scheduled to take place at the Alhambra Theater in Granada, thanks to the joint work of the Ministry of Culture and Historical Heritage, through the Agency for Cultural Institutions, and in collaboration with the Jerez City Council, may be held in Jerez de la Frontera, at the Villamarta Theater.
These are the performances of El Pele and Rancapino Chico with Jesús Méndez. The Villarmarta will host two recitals on November 21th and 22th respectively, including in the program of commemorative activities of flamenco as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by Unesco, which has been held in the city of Cadiz since last November 16th.
Alba Molina publishes her new album
Alba Molina: "Flamenco deserves much more"
Alba Molina
Lole and Manuel's daughter talks about her parents in the present, because neither they nor their work will stop accompanying her on her journey. After closing a trilogy of tribute albums, she now publishes "El Beso", an album in which she looks more at herself, but in which the light of her parents continues to shine like an inspiring flash.
"They are very natural and simple songs, which reflect my state of mind. It has been a quite natural album, a faithful reflection of how I feel right now. A little more childish, more sweetened I would say.
"El Beso" was born in the pandemic, but the title is not premeditated. This song was composed before, but it came to my hands at that time. I am going through the fatal pandemic, like everyone else. There is a general feeling of depression, of uncertainty, and there is little desire for everything. And at the same time we have all the accumulated desire to do things, to work. So imagine, pretty bad. At least I was able to work on this album more concentrated. I think "The Kiss" is the only nice thing that has happened to me in this crisis. "
Antonio Rodríguez and Lari Basilio
Macarrón Fly is the new single from McCadden Place, the most recent album by José Antonio Rodríguez.
XIV Festival Sierra Blanca
Duquende, at the XIV Sierra Blanca Festival in Marbella
XIV Festival Sierra Blanca
Duquende heads the XIV Sierra Blanca Festival in Marbella. The cast is completed by Isabel Guerrero, Manuel de la Curra and Pepe Lara, also singing; Chaparro de Málaga, Ismael Rueda, Luis El Salao and Paco Lara, to the toque; Luisa Chicano, dancing and clapping; and José de Chaparro, to the palms. Paco Vargas conducts the act. The appointment is on November 28th at 7:00 p.m. at the Ciudad de Marbella Theater.
The Fuengiroleña cantaora, daughter of Barquerito de Fuengirola and with two first prizes (for malagueñas and Cartagena) at the Las Minas de La Unión Cante Festival, repeats for the second consecutive year at the Marbella Festival, organized by the Peña Sierra Blanca, with the collaboration of the Marbella City Council and the Malaga Provincial Council.
Carmen de la Jara
Carmen de la Jara, predilection daughter of the city of Cádiz
Carmen de la Jara
At the end of October, the Honors and Distinctions Commission of the Cádiz City Council approved the proposals for the Predilected Child of the city, whose proposal has been ratified in the ordinary session corresponding to the month October of the municipal plenary session of the Cádiz City Council. In that list are a craftsman, seamstress, doctor, doctor ... and flamenco, through the figure of Carmen Sánchez de la Jara.
The Cádiz cantaora obtained the title of Predilected Daughter of Cádiz in recognition of her artistic career, bearing the name of Cádiz everywhere, a source of pride for the flamenco world as well.
Better known artistically as Carmen de la Jara, the cantaora was born in 1955 in the Viña neighborhood, a descendant of a family of renowned musicians from Cádiz such as "El Niño de la Alegría".
'El amor brujo' with the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra
Rocío Bazán performs 'El amor brujo' with the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra
'El amor brujo' with the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra
Rocío Bazán will perform El amor brujo de Falla with the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by José María Moreno, at the Cervantes Theater in Malaga. The appointment is double, on Saturday and Sunday at 12.00.
The original "musical gypsyism", as Falla's ballet El amor brujo was described, written in 1914, is adapted for orchestra in 1925 in a suite with thirteen numbers where a gypsy story wrapped in witchcraft and superstition is described musically. "To make it, I always used ideas of a popular nature, some of them taken from Pastora Imperio herself, who sings them out of tradition, and to which 'authenticity' cannot be denied [...] I always kept the popular motif, dressed with an adapted technique to his character but to form a homogeneous 'whole'. This is my artistic conviction, and I did so in La vida breve ", as described by the author to the press.
Pedro Iturralde, the incombustible jazz master
The saxophonist and composer became a legend with his three pioneering albums of «Jazz Flamenco»
Donna Hightower and Pedro Iturralde in 1987
Last Saturday he died at his Madrid home in the Moncloa district at the age of 91. Pedro Iturralde won in his own right a place among the greatest in European jazz. A legend capable of diving into hard-bop and be-bop, in the 50s, when no one in Spain had heard those words. And, above all, he later established himself as a pioneer at the level of Miles Davis, with his three volumes of "Jazz Flamenco", the first of which, in 1967, he recorded with a very young Paco de Lucía who said without understanding anything about what he had touched.
«I have been developing flamenco jazz since I started to perform when I was 15 years old at the Café Comercio in Logroño with a classical pianist. We accompanied singers who performed songs by Falla, Albéniz and Granados. Later, during my military service in Tangier, I discovered flamenco and began to mix both styles. At the beginning of the 60s, I continued with that idea in Madrid. I would pick up popular songs from Lorca, but I would rewrite the harmony with the piano because the poet's was very poor and, on it, I would improvise later with my group. One of those pieces was "Zorongo gitano", which was what led me to compose those records ».
'Morente´s Universes'
'The Universes of Morente', cycle of the Diputación de Granada, vindicates its legacy
'Los Universos de Morente'
'Los Universos de Morente' is a cycle, which will take place from November 12th to 27th, with which the Diputación de Granada commemorates the tenth anniversary of the death of the Granada-born cantaor, and vindicates his legacy, and the appointment of flamenco as Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
Most of the planned activities will be broadcast via streaming through the official communication channels of the Culture Delegation of the Granada Provincial Council and the La Madraza Center for Contemporary Culture.
Carmen Linares, Eva Yerbabuena, Antonio Arias (Lagartija Nick) and José Sánchez Montes will open the fire next Thursday under the heading ‘I did meet Enrique Morente‘.
Tribute to Rancapino
Chiclana honors Rancapino for his 75th birthday
Tribute to Rancapino
Chiclana pays tribute to Alonso Núñez Rancapino for his 75th birthday, which he celebrated last June with the Rancapino year, which starts on November 15th, the eve of International Flamenco Day, with a Festival featuring the honoree, his children Rancapino Chico and Ana Núñez and her granddaughter Esmeralda Rancapino, and Pansequito, Aurora Vargas and Juan Villar, as guest artists.
Completing the lineup are Antonio Higuero, Miguel Salado and Manuel Jero, on tap; Manuel Cantarote and José Rubichi, to the beat; and Ramón Torres, on percussion. The appointment will be at 7:00 p.m. at the Modern Theater of the Cadiz town, framed in the Festival of Spanish Music of Cádiz and in the program of commemorative events of the tenth anniversary of flamenco as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO of the Andalusian Agency for Cultural Institutions.
Raimundo Amador
Raimundo Amador reviews his career on the guitar
Raimundo Amador, in the late seventies
The Sevillian musician, pioneer of fusion flamenco, celebrates his 60th birthday with an album recorded at home and surrounded by friends.
Raimundo Amador has played and recorded with so many musicians that it is easier to list the ones he has not. "There is an album by Def Con Dos in which he says: 'In this album neither Andrés Calamaro nor Raimundo Amador collaborates”, says the Sevillian guitarist in La Venta Bobito, in Valencina de la Concepción, the town of Seville where he is. He moved with his family about 15 years ago and where he has recorded 60th anniversary "Directo en casa", a new job that comes 10 years after "Medio hombre, medio guitarra".
The flamenco guitarist, who opened the doors to fusion with Veneno - along with his brother Rafael and Kiko Veneno - in the seventies and with Rafael patented gypsy rock with Pata Negra, boasts of being a musical "chameleon" and is willing to continue adding bars to the deep tradition of the Amador saga. His new album, the eighth solo since Gerundina released in 1995 with his beloved BB King "El último moicano, el rey", has been recorded live with " a lot of friends "in his home studio and it is a review of his 60 years of" passion for music ", although the album comes out this Friday, when Raimundo Amador has already turned 61 and has been uploaded to the scenarios.
MiraDas Flamenkas
The "duende" sounds in Vallecas
Carmen La Talegona
Aurora Losada, José Maldonado, Carmen La Talegona, and other artists will perform from November 5th to 25th at the Pilar Miró Cultural Center, which will also host an exhibition and a round table.
The Community of Madrid presents MiraDas FlamenKas, I Sample Flamenco Vallecas, a proposal that claims cultural decentralization based on the spirit of flamenco, with eight concerts and an exhibition dedicated to the Acropol record label, which can be enjoyed at the Pilar Cultural Center Miró from November 5th to 25th.
«MiraDas FlamenKas is an urban, eclectic, cultural proposal to recognize the wide mosaic of colors and styles that our most universal art shows: guitar, singing, and flamenco dance. Gazes with an open horizon, because Madrid has always been the place where those who wanted to be "someone" have arrived. These are the words of Paloma Concejero, Artistic Director of this proposal that will start on November 5th from a neighborhood in the south of Madrid: Vallecas. Because the neighborhoods of this city, from Carabanchel to San Blas, Entrevías, Orcasitas, Pan Bendito or La Celsa, have contributed a lot to the history of this genuinely Spanish art that is the flamenco rumba. Castizo districts, punished by the COVID-19 pandemic that this cycle wants to vindicate through musical activism so that "flamenco, in any of its ways, can once again be on the street and in the neighborhoods and not only in the big theaters in the center of Madrid. May the need to attend concerts infect us, the shared experience that best represents the value of the collective to get ahead in difficult times. Of course, always with the necessary and mandatory health and safety measures, ”says Concejero.
Suma Flamenca 2020 Festival
Soleá Morente: «Madrid was fundamental and decisive in my father's career»
Soleá Morente
The new edition of the Suma Flamenca Festival evokes the sound universe of Enrique Morente, with artists such as Carmen Linares or Pepe Habichuela.
The Festival Suma Flamenca, the flamenco festival of the Community of Madrid, presents its 15th edition with a program that, for the first time, is completely dedicated to the memory of an artist who is already the history of flamenco art, Enrique Morente. Thus, on the tenth anniversary of his disappearance, the festival evokes the sonorous cosmos of the Granada-born cantaor through 37 concerts by artists from various generations who vindicate his figure. And among those who could not miss his daughter Soleá, who recalls the Madrid experiences of her father and analyzes his profound legacy
El Dorado analyzes the heritage of Paco de Lucía
El Dorado analyzes the heritage of Paco de Lucía with the cycle "La Guitarra de Hoy: New references"
José María Gallardo and Miguel Ángel Cortés
The Sociedad Flamenca Barcelonesa summons Gallardo, Cortés, Dani de Morón, Riqueni and Pedro Barragán between strict security measures so as not to suspend any concert.
El Dorado, Sociedad Flamenca Barcelonesa, resumes its activity for this fourth quarter of the year with a program dedicated to checking the current panorama of the guitar and flamenco guitarists at this turbulent moment, but of great creativity.
Under the cycle entitled "Today's Guitar: new references", the Catalan entity programs in Barcelona, between enormous security measures and sanitary prevention, a cycle that has been opened with the presence of leading musicians such as José María Gallardo and Miguel Ángel Cortés presenting his show "Lo Cortés no quita lo Gallardo"; Dani de Morón and the bailaora Patricia Guerrero and also Eduardo Trassiera.
Pedro Barragán, president of El Dorado, explains that the organization, despite the impact of the pandemic in recent months, "never spoke of the suspension of concerts and activities and despite the reduction in the capacity of the room that hosts the events, we resumed the concerts committed to the artists ”.
The program is extensive: Rafael Riqueni (November 5th), Andrés Marín and Aina Núñez (December 12th), Manuel Romero, Pedro Barragán and Roberto Jaén (November 26th), Ana Morales, Juan José Amador and Juan Antonio Suárez "Canito ”(December 17th).
