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Diego el Cigala
Diego el Cigala: «Mexican music moves my guts»
Diego el Cigala
To the publication of his tenth album he adds the reactivation of his concerts, more than eleven in the coming days.
It does not seem that the confinement has made Diego el Cigala feel bad. Just as joker as always and with a personalized mask with the now famous slogan "Back!" («With the coronavirus, you have to say" Atrás! "To anyone who comes around at all hours»), the Madrid-born cantaor returns more eager than ever. Upon the release of his tenth album («Cigala sings to Mexico») the reactivation of the concerts is added, more than 11 in the coming days, and even a little-known facet in him, that of a teacher in a «master class».
Andrea Salcedo
The brave girl who became flamenco in the land of mariachis
Andrea Salcedo
What is a girl who was born in a small town in Jalisco doing and grew up among the skyscrapers of Chicago, turned into an international benchmark for flamenco guitar? The adventures of Andrea Salcedo is so unusual and bizarre that she laughs herself when telling it. "Mine is a comical story. Sometimes I look at myself in front of the mirror and ask myself: 'What trouble did you get into, Andrea?", He sums up. For now, we will only give you one detail. Or, more specifically, a television advertisement.
Ciudad Guzmán, about 120 kilometers south of Guadalajara, Mexico. Year 1993. A 12-year-old boy, Hugo Salcedo, watches on TV a "commercial" for the brandy Don Pedro that stars the genius from Algeciras. It is exactly 30 seconds of tuning, but that sonorous tinkling moves him. And he insists ad nauseam. to his parents, a former soccer player and a former volleyball player, in which he wants to "learn to play like that man." There is no Google and we are 9,500 kilometers from the Strait of Gibraltar, but such is their perseverance that the mother, Nora Sotelo, ends up finding a private teacher who claims to know some flamenco. Two years later Andrea was born, and her brother decided to share his passion with her. "She was still almost a baby and she was already teaching me to clap to the beat," says Andrea.
Flamenco carol
Chelo Soto premieres the video clip of Bendición, a flamenco carol of his authorship
Suma Flamenca de Madrid
De la Tomasa: Torres con Pies de Plomo
José el de la Tomasa, at the Suma Flamenca festival
The Torre family presented, within the Suma Flamenca de Madrid, their show ‘Genes’, which shows the cante of the last three generations of professionals of this singing lineage.
The Torre are one of the most notable families in the history of flamenco; nothing less than the descendants of Manuel Torre (1880-1933), a cantaor whose voice was the excuse for Lorca to be able to coin the concept of black sounds (that is: sound articulations not filtered by the rational sense or conscious discipline but by the primitive dictation of the race). Last night a show called Genes was presented at the Paco Rabal de Vallecas Cultural Center (Madrid), within Suma Flamenca, in which the last three generations of professionals of this lineage showed the state of form of their cantes. They were accompanied by the guitars of veteran maestro Manolo Franco and Joni Jiménez, guitarist from the Aquilino Jiménez El Entri school.
19th century flamenco
Appointment with ‘19th century flamenco’ at the Cervantes Theater in Malaga
Ángel María Cortellini, El cante de la moza. Tavern scene. 1846
Emprende Lunares 5th edition
The 5th edition of Emprende Lunares already has its winners
Emprende Lunares 5th edition
A total of eight entrepreneurs have been selected to receive training, promotion, and marketing plan for flamenco fashion.
The fifth edition of the "Fundación Cajasol Emprede Lunares" with SIMOF already has its winners. It is an annual training program aimed at entrepreneurs of flamenco fashion and organized by the Cajasol Foundation and the fashion and communication agency Doble Erre.
The objective of Emprende Lunares is to promote the careers of these entrepreneurs within the business market. In this Vº edition, of all the collection projects presented, the expert committee formed by the designer Pilar Vera; the fashion editor and president of the Qlamenco Pedro González Association; the designer Rocío Montero from the firm Lina; the model and stylist Mónica Rosón and the journalist Clara Guzmán, have selected the eight winners, where the talent, concern, and viability of the projects presented have been valued.
Christmas Zambomba
‘Semblanza Navideña’, Mara Cortés´s Zambomba
Semblanza Navideña
Suma Flamenca festival
Pedro el Granaíno sings in memory of Camarón and Morente at the Suma Flamenca festival
Pedro el Granaíno
"Flamenco is the way to count your sorrows, your fatigue, your joys, everything that you have inside your soul."
Pedro el Granaíno worked as a street vendor and, although he had always had a passion for flamenco, he was happy within the family business. "The first ones who are interested in me are Farruquito and other dancers, but my thing was the markets and it was difficult for me to be convinced, especially because I was not prepared to go on stage. Dedicating yourself professionally to flamenco is not something you can do overnight ”, he explains on the other end of the phone, on the eve of his performance today at the Suma Flamenca festival, which celebrates its 15th edition.
This time he brings to the capital El Barranco de Los negros, a show dedicated to Camarón, who has just turned 70 years after his birth, and to Enrique Morente, who commemorates this Sunday the tenth anniversary of the death of he. "We are fortunate to have been born at this time because they are everything, 40 years have passed and they continue to contribute to us, they have innovated without leaving the roots of flamenco, which is the key, they were very restless creators", says the cantaor Andalusian, 47 years old.
La Lola, a ‘LGTBIjondo’ peña
A flamenco peña from Jerez becomes "the first in Spain" to represent the LGTBI collective in this art
Mario González, Sonia Arnáiz & Carmen Rodríguez
It is not really known how and when Lola Flores said that of "who has not had a 'pipazo' with a friend?" their great moments of self-confidence. It does not even matter if he actually pronounced it because it is credible for an artist who has shown all her life to support the gay community without fissures. That is why, when in Jerez de la Frontera they devised to create the first LGTBI feminist flamenco club from Spain it could not be called otherwise: La Lola.
"La Lola is a feminine, transgressive, and Andalusian concept. She is an icon, but there are more Lolas," sums up Susana Arnáiz del Bosque, vice president of an entity that was presented last September with the permission of a pandemic that delayed its start-up. The entity's headquarters is already, in itself, a declaration of intentions. On the stage of La Guarida del Ángel, a singing café with a flamenco vocation and more than 20 years of experience, a great ball coexist of a disco, a baroque sofa upholstered in purple, a flower body with red tendrils, and a patio full of cattail chairs.
Israel Fernández
Israel Fernández, the singer who drives Pablo Alborán and Rosalía crazy
Israel Fernández
As soon as he enters in one of the terraces of Puerta de Alcalá, his hair, the polka dot mask, the long black coat (for the photo he changed it with his wife because he did not like the hood) and that flamenco air attracts attention. Israel Fernández (Corral de Almaguer, Toledo, 1989) is the singer of the moment, for whom Pablo Alborán, Rosalía, Tangana, Sara Baras and Miguel Poveda sigh.
"Getting close to flamenco means listening to it a lot, especially the lyrics, which catch you with their message," he says while turning a hot Cola-Cao. At 30, his name is already destined to shine in the world of flamenco. "My mirror is Camarón".
He was born into a very humble gypsy family where people used to sing and dance a lot. "There was always a reason." He has two brothers and a sister. The "gift" has been inherited, he says, from his grandmother Petra, "all art" although "she could not dedicate herself to singing because then it was not well seen for a gypsy woman to do it". He is self-taught: "There is nothing worse than breaking a dream for others."
Tablao Cordobés
El Tablao Cordobés da voz a la Resistencia Flamenca de Barcelona con cuatro actuaciones especiales
El Yiyo y el Tete durante un ensayo.
El Tablao Flamenco Cordobés ofrece un ciclo de cuatro conciertos únicos los días 11, 12, 18 y 19 de diciembre, después de nueve meses de cierre ininterrumpido a causa de la pandemia, en un año en que la sala celebra su cincuenta aniversario. Los conciertos, bajo el nombre de Resistencia Flamenca Barcelona, se enmarcan dentro de la campaña SALA CAT, promovida por la Asociación de Salas de Concierto de Cataluña, con la ayuda del Departamento de Cultura de la Generalitat (ICEC).
Los espectáculos pretenden reflejar la resistencia numantina del flamenco en Cataluña en esta situación excepcional, y suponen una excepción puntual a la situación de cierre total en la que continúa la sala y que, de momento, se prolongará de forma indefinida durante los próximos meses.
Israel Fernández at MEM festival
With the guitar of Diego del Morao and the percussion of the Piraña, Israel Fernández at the Fernán Gómez Theater in Madrid and within the MEM festival
Israel Fernández & Diego del Morao
iguel Astorga and his ‘Eterno Presente’ at The Hall Málaga
An appointment with Miguel Astorga and his ‘Eterno Presente’ at The Hall Málaga will be on December 12th
The appointment with Miguel Astorga and ‘Eterno presente’, his debut album, at The Hall Málaga, initially scheduled for November 13th, will finally be on Saturday December 12th at 4.30 pm. The singer from Malaga will be accompanied for the occasion by Fran Guerrero, on guitar; and Ramón Heredia and Bastián Jiménez, to the palms.
Despite his youth, Astorga has come a long way in the jondo; tanned in countless stages (tablaos, peñas, theaters ...), his hobby and deep knowledge crystallize in this album, in which he has outstanding collaborations: Daniel Casares, Juan Requena, José Luis Lastre, Antonio Soto and Pepe Justicia, to the guitar; and Chelo Soto and Delia Membrive, on cante.
Suma Flamenca 2020 Festival
The Suma Flamenca pays tribute to Enrique Morente, who arrived with nothing at the age of 16 from Granada to Madrid to experience the flamenco night and succeed as a singer
Enrique Morente & Manolo Sanlucar
Enrique Morente used to say that he did not know how to love "a mastodon like Madrid", but that he did. "Receive everyone without pointing out where you are from. This is something he has always had ”. The formidable cantaor who loved flamenco and flamenco loved him, although the orthodox called him a "murderer" for all those ways he had to break corsets, he liked from his heart that no one pointed their finger at him. He loved freedom and perhaps That is why he found a new home in the "mastodon", where he lived until the mid-nineties.
Just that it is now ten years since Morente's death, it is appreciated that tribute is being paid to him at the Suma Flamenca, Madrid's flamenco festival. An exhibition with 35 concerts and the participation of 100 artists who, in the words of its director Antonio Benamargo, "evokes the sound world of Enrique Morente." Benamargo, an expert flamencologist who was the artist's manager for five years, knows that evoking requires more freedom than paying homage and freedom is part of the vocabulary of the best art. And he also knows that Madrid owed him a real musical recognition: "Enrique was very Granada, but he always confessed to Madrid. And the public in Madrid adored him ”.
Suma Flamenca festiva
The Suma Flamenca festival pays tribute to Enrique Morente
Suma Flamenca 2020 festival
The XV Festival Suma Flamenca offers, from December 1st to 20th, 35 shows where more than 100 artists take part, spread over 11 Madrid stages, ranging from the Canal Theaters to the Real Coliseo Carlos III in San Lorenzo del Escorial. The organizers affirm that this edition seeks to weave a narrative and aesthetic around the legacy of Enrique Morente, one of the most important figures in the history of flamenco, on the tenth anniversary of his death.
Benamargo explains how the idea of Morente being the central figure of this edition of the festival came about: "He is a very beloved and admired cantaor by the Madrid public, since he learned almost everything he knew in Madrid. With the figure of Enrique is not just before a great singer, but before an extraordinary composer. ”The director adds that his family has been receptive at all times, so much so that his three children participate: Estrella, Solea and Kiki Morente.
Madrid es Música (MEM)
Madrid es Música (MEM) fills December with flamenco, blues and Iberian music
Rosario la Tremendita
Rosario la Tremendita, Delafé, Los Deltonos, Mártires del Compás or Israel Fernández and Diego del Morao will perform until the 15th at the Fernán Gómez. CC de la Villa.
In December, the Madrid es Música (MEM) festival returns with nine new concerts that can be seen on the stage of the Sala Guirau of the Fernán Gómez space. CC de la Villa, a center dependent on the Area of Culture, Tourism, and Sports of the Madrid City Council, from December 1 to 15.
MEM, which offers us its latest series of concerts, began yesterday with Fetén Fetén and Javier Ruibal as a guest artist and continues today with «A party in Triana», a concert with L. Peña, J. Heredia, J. Carrasco, El Pañero and El Perla that gives way to flamenco in MEM. With this performance, they show us what is currently happening in the most intimate flamenco circles of the neighborhood with more tradition and history in Seville: Triana. The party has always been the link between artists, the language with which the flamingos shared nights and experiences. This type of meeting is mostly limited to a very small group of people, mainly artists, and sublime moments of art and inspiration are given, spreading the magic of one another. The main virtue of these artists lies in bringing together two facets at the same time: song and dance, eminently rhythmic and festive.
Christmas Zambomba
El Gallo Ronco's Zambomba and Christmas Semblances join the Cervantes de Málaga
Zambomba from the Flamenco tavern El Gallo Ronco
Two new flamenco zambombas are added to those already planned at the Cervantes Theater in Malaga (Antonio de Verónica and Saray Cortés, on December 13th, and Alejandro Estrada, on the 26th). These are the zambomba by El Gallo Ronco, on the 12th and 13th, and Semblanza Navideña, that of Mara Cortés, on the 20th in The Hall.
The Zambomba at the El Gallo Ronco flamenco tavern or Cal y Canto room, run by bailaora Rebeca Lauret, will be performed by Manuel de la Curra, Delia Membrive and Antonio Luque Canito, on song; Nané Lucas, on guitar; and Juan Manuel Lucas, on percussion. The appointment is double, on December 12th and 13 at 3:00 p.m.
