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La Mar de Músicas has become one of the three festivals of world music in Europe.
The critics, the public and all the quality programming they endorse.
And as an example for this sixteenth edition of the festival will feature the world premiere on opening day of Afro Cubism, a project that combines the music of Mali and Cuba and with the participation of Eliades Ochoa, Toumani Diabate, and Kassy Mady Kouyate Basekou.
Also there will be ten premieres, including seven unique concerts in Spain, such as The Penguin Café, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo Cotonou, Kronos Quartet & Ensemble Alim Qasimov, Mahala Rai Banda, Toumani Diabaté with the Symphony Orchestra of the Region Murcia, Hindi Zahra, Ballek Sissoko & Vincent Segal, Youssou N'Dour, Martha Wainwright and Rupa & The April Fishes.
Ticket sales for this year has grown 30% over the previous year.
Tickets for the Auditorio Parque Torres are nearly exhausted and almost certainly will be changes to appraisals of greater capacity.
On July 25, La Mar de Músicas and look to Italy, next country invited to the festival.
A dream come true.
Will be the inauguration of La Mar de Músicas one of the most significant moments of this issue.
What do together Eliades Ochoa, Toumani Diabate, Kasse Mady Kouyaté and Bassekou Diabaté?
Continue the project that originated Buena Vista Social Club, AfroCubism.
That Ry Cooder production that restored the glory to veterans Cuban musicians like Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo and Compay Segundo.
What many know is that Buena Vista Social Club came almost by accident.
In 1996, Nick Gold, founder of World Circuit label, had the idea of producing a disk that work together musicians from Bamako, Mali and Santiago de Cuba.
Finally, visa issues, Africans never came to the island and the script changed leaving them out of what became a worldwide success.
World premiere in Spain.
One of the star players of that time was Eliades Ochoa, who now, at 64, provides voice and guitar to the project resumed Afro-Cubism.
With him are the king of the kora, Toumani Diabaté, the interpreter n'goni, Bassekou Kouyaté, and the singer Kasse Mady Diabate, among others.
Music In The Sea, will be the world premiere of this project, described as a dream come true for World Music.
Protagonists travel to Cartagena to act on the opening day of the event, on 9 July at the Auditorio Parque Torres.
The disc is available for sale throughout the fall.
Such is the expectation that created this concert and there are about fifteen international journalists accredited.
This and other concerts will be broadcast nationally by Radio3.
But the 16 th edition of the festival will revolve mainly around the music of Colombia, which will be represented much of the sounds of the Latin American country.
And in Cartagena will be the grand dame of folklore Toto La Momposina, Cholo Valderrama, the most prominent representative of llanera music, The Pipers of San Jacinto, a group that preserves the traditional music of bagpipes and drums mixing inherited from Indian, African and Spanish, and Adolfo Pacheco and accordion ensemble, author of the country's most popular vallenato.
But the music Colombia have been updated and opening to the urban sounds more globalized and as proof of this will Aterciopelados, Bomba Estereo, Chocquibtown, Quantic and His Combo Barbarian and La Mojarra Eléctrica.
The 33 who has taken the traditional salsa training but introducing new elements and singer / songwriter Marta Gómez will also form part of programming dedicated to Colombia.
The American continent is also very present in the festival, beyond Colombia, Cartagena is to go through legendary psychedelic Os Mutantes, and the sensational new voice of Céu, both from Brazil.
America will have a strong representation with the new jazz diva Melody Gardot, with accompanying Kronos Quartet Alim Qasimov, the most famous and venerated singer from Azerbaijan and the godmother of punk Patti Smith, on the night of the newspaper La Verdad.
Also, Dirty Projectors, Martha Wainwright and Rupa & The April Fishes.
Africa.
The three most important figures in African music today will be in La Mar de Músicas.
The golden voice of Africa, that is, Salif Keita to present his new album, La Différence, Youssou N'Dour accompanied by a remarkable Dakar-Kingston, a tribute to Bob Marley, and Toumani Diabaté, the great master of the kora.
The Malian musician will be joined on a special project by the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia, where he will show it did in the Barbican Center in London with the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool.
To these we must add the presence of Staff Benda Bilili, a group of street musicians from the Democratic Republic of Congo, several paraplegic due to polio and exquisite union of the Malian kora and cello Ballake Sissoko French Vincent Segal.
Will be in Cartagena also Orchestre Poly-Rythmo Cotonou, one of the best kept secrets in Africa, with its peculiar music afrofunky., The sweeping education The Very Best and the young Moroccan Zahra Hindi, with its fabulous mix of ballads, folk, soul urban blues.
Middle East, namely Syria will Omar Souleyman, a legend in his country, where he and his group have emerged as a staple of folk-pop of the country, having published over 500 cassettes.
Sonar already triumphed in 2009.
Europe.
Back Philippe Cohen Solal, Eduardo Makaroff and Christoph H.
Müller, or whatever it is, Gotan Project.
This group already is synonymous with chic or cool come to present his latest work, Tango 3.0.
Norway King of Convenience will be the duo that seems the result of mixing outgoing Belle & Sebastian with Simon & Garfunkel and be with her new album Declaration of Dependence ..
Slovenia is one of the groups with the greatest circuit in the world music Brina, thanks to the collaboration of the festival with House Mediterranean.
Romania, Mahala Rai Banda, whose flag is the formation of sounds exciting, fast-paced, from the Romanian tradition.
And London's legendary The Penguin Cafe, which recovered by the son of one of its founder Simon Jeffes, comes to the festival.
Our country will be represented by Macaco, who will handle the closing of the festival.
If the final Macaco, Muchachito Bombo infer is the beginning, as they will be the opening day showing his new work.
Diego El Cigala for filing returns, accompanied by the Tango is considered one of the most important and renowned bandoneon player in the world Néstor Marconi.
Experience and Sonidero addition Desmadre Baltakalan have visitors dancing until the wee hours.
But The Sea is also Music Film The Sea, The Sea of Art, and La Mar de Letras.
The Sea of Cinema.
Colombian cinema has achieved in recent years gained special recognition and international visibility was not available.
His appearance in first-class festivals such as Cannes last year wind travel Ciro Guerra, Toronto and Berlin, where he won the audience award, the crab roll Oscar Ruiz Navia and Venice blood and rain are Jorge Navas clear indication that something is happening with the cinema.
That something has to do with the fruits that start producing the new film law of 2003.
That is why what is organizing a show that begins in that year and closed in 2009, in five years that surely will be remembered by historians as a key stage in Colombian cinema reference.
The film section scheduled twelve films, three documentaries and short films eight Colombian.
La Mar de Letras meet this year in Cartagena to several of the leading voices of Colombian literature today as Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Santiago Gamboa, Rómulo Bustos Aguirre and Piedad Bonnett.
In addition, there will be Literary Award La Mar de Letras, which honors an author, never before been published in Spain, with the release of one of his works in our country by the editorial El Cobre.
Special this year with Colombia, the winner of The Free Sea was the writer Pilar Quintana, who has published three novels in his country and was chosen as one of the writers under 39 years Latin America Featured by the Hay Festival .
The novel will be published with the Prix La Mar de Letras will be: dust collection rare.
La Mar de Arte meet in Cartagena intervention in collective Populardelujo Street, with the placement of images representative of the Colombian popular graphics, a retrospective of the author plus pop across Colombia Nadin Ospina, a solo exhibition of the latest work by the young Barranquilla Marco Mojica, the Prize Fernando Botero, contemporary painting representative of Colombia, with an overriding concern to the figurative.
Luz Angela addition Lizarazo expose his photographic work based on the gates of the houses in Colombia, Fernando Rubio Ahumada Dislocations display your photo project which collects images and testimonies of people living far from their place of origin, Willy Ramos, a Colombian living in Murcia, will with colorful paintings and illusionists.
Moreover, the operator Javier Codesal, Spanish pioneer in video art, made especially for La Mar de Músicas, a foray into the world of organized violence in Colombian society through the stories in video, photography and installation.
The concert tickets can be purchased now through the New Theatre box office and on the web Circo www.lamardemusicas.com and www.ticktackticket.com
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