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The best and most varied of our folklore and roots will meet in Cartagena Sing Festival, which will be music through ballads, songs and sound of the guitars at Teatro Circo Apolo El Algar on 4 June.

Thanks to the organization of the Art and Flamenco Cultural Association and sponsored by the City of Cartagena and support especially the Department of Culture, is recovered in the city this festival that took 24 years without place, which will folklore as protagonist in its more than two hours.

The presentation of this festival took place yesterday, Tuesday May 10, by Deputy Mayor, Ana Belén Castejon, Councillor for Culture, David Martinez, along with the president of the Cultural Association of Art and Flamenco of Cartagena, Antonio Casado, and director of the Apollo Theater in El Algar, Cristina Roca.

In addition to presenting the features of this festival enlivening encounter with the performance of the folk group La Palma, also guitarist Manuel Leon and singer Salvador Salas, he presented the poster showing the clothing of cartagenera and reported exposure Cartagena Canta which will open the festival on the same day at 19:30 pm.

This folkloric shows can be displayed sculptures by local artists as Fernando Saez, Jorge Garcia Aznar, Andrés Rosique or Bethlehem Orta among others.

Sing with Salvador Salas and Antonio Ayala, guitar with Manuel Leon, Dancing with the School of Dance Carmen Baths, trovocon cultural and trovera association José Maria Marin, Spanish song with Maria Jose Lorente, folklore with the city of Cartagena folk group La Palma or poems recited by Antonio Casado Mena Celi Dieste be responsible for providing programming around the roots of the city from 21:30 hours.

Deputy Mayor, Ana Belén Castejon, highlighted the event as one of the most original and cartageneros that exalt our rich artistic and folkloric tissue, indicating that a modern Cartagena should look for her corner of my eye so do not be losing any of our customs nor our priceless heritage in the form of folklore and heritage legacy.

Councillor for Culture, David Martinez, said that festivals like this become a useful tool to keep our deeply united idiosyncrasies our ancestors instrument and their ways of expressing with songs and dances their welfare and happiness in society, inviting all attendees to dress in traditional costume cartagenero.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena