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La Mar de Músicas looks at this issue in Latin America as a common identity space where traditional and avant-garde, mestizo and pure sounds flow musically.
The festival, organized by the City Council of Cartagena, will carry out the largest concentration of Latin American groups in Europe to date in a single festival.
23 groups from Puerto Rico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Chile, Honduras, Argentina, Brazil and Guatemala will be in the port city.
A festival that in its 23rd edition, which will run from 14 to 22 July, will have a total of 48 bands from Africa and Europe.
Of these, eight will be premieres and only concerts in Spain and another seven will start in Cartagena his tour of our country.
The Councilor for Culture of the City of Cartagena, David Martinez, the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Environment of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, Javier Celdrán, the deputy mayor of the city, Ana Belén Castejón, the coordinator of the Department of Culture of the Consistory, Fulgencia Plazas, accompanied by the marketing director of La Verdad, José Manuel Jiménez, presented Friday the complete program planned for this year's edition of the festival.
This edition of La Mar de Músicas will have the same privileged scenes from previous years, which make this an urban festival in full coexistence with the city.
The other seas, which will be presented in a month, La Mar de Arte, La Mar de Letras and La Mar de Cine, which complement and differentiate La Mar de Músicas from many other festivals, will also be celebrated.
More than fifty percent of the activities will be free.
Of the 48 concerts of this edition, 22 will be free and that is necessary to add all the actions of the parallel activities.
With a big party of sounds coming from Latin America La Mar de Músicas will begin on Friday, July 14.
The leader of Calle 13, the Puerto Rican René Pérez 'Residente', comes to present his first solo work in Cartagena on a night in which he will be accompanied by the Colombians Puerto Candelaria, an innovative musical proposal that has defined the sound direction of the last ones Times of Colombia.
In the opening night will also be the Ecuadorian Nicola Cruz, with a very careful proposal where the urban avant-garde with the jungle heritage.
In addition Kanaku and the Tiger, psicodelia with taste to folklore of Peru and the Mexican Carla Morrison, well-known like the first lady of the Mexican indie.
From Puerto Rico, as well as 'Resident', and how could it be otherwise, is his sister, will also iLe, who like René was part of Calle 13. Will be presenting his first solo album that sounds like boleros Of the 50's. Also scheduled is the African-American Mark Underwood, who is in love and installed in Puerto Rico, and under the name of FFÉ, will present a proposal that stands out for a futuristic folkloric concept.
From Colombia, as well as Puerto Candelaria, will come old acquaintances of the festival, Aterciopelados, Latin American institution of mestizo rock.
Also Solar Systema, group renovador of the traditional Colombian music.
From Ecuador, like Nicola Cruz, is Mateo Kingman, whose first record has been qualified by the specialized media as one of the best of 2016. The Ecuadorian musician is one of the new bets of Latin American music and as Nicola Cruz uses as references the Nature and the Andean jungle in its music.
From Peru, such as Kanaku and El Tigre, Bareto are possibly the best known Peruvian band abroad at the moment.
Alternative tropical music is their thing.
Cuba will be represented at the festival by La Dame Blanche an energy and voice bomb, whose songs are a mixture of modern and urban genres spiced with traditional rhythms of the island.
Also by Pablo Milanés, who will receive the La Mar de Musica 2017 prize. Pablo Milanés, who will perform a special concert, will be accompanied on stage by Pablo López, Rozalén and Jorge Marazu.
Chile returns to La Mar de Músicas and does so mainly with a tribute that the festival has prepared the most important folklorist of all America, the great Violeta Parra.
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the author of 'Gracias a la Vida', and the festival will be celebrated with a special concert where the Chilean singer-songwriter Manuel García, the granddaughter of Violeta, Tita Parra will participate.
This tribute includes an exhibition, a literary talk and the screening of the documentary that his brother Angel Parra performed before his death.
From Chile will also come the always fun Chico Trujillo.
From Brazil will come Céu and Maria Gadú two young singers, well known in their country, who are not so much here.
Also the group Bixiga 70. Of Honduras will be the great exponent of the Garífuna music Aurelio;
Of Guatemala Meneo and Argentina Chancha Vía Circuito, considered the vanguard of Latin American electronics.
On the other hand, from the Dominican Republic, and sharing stage with the great Tomatito, will be Michel Camilo.
Together they will play Spain Forever.
From the United States will come two of the big bets of this festival, the jazz singer Kandance Springs and Leyla McCalla whose music is a union of the folk of the old days, of jazz and traditional folk music of Haiti.
Jumping to Africa, continent to which the festival is always attentive.
This year, the closing, on the 22nd, will be a great African party, with Oumou Sangaré, the Malian singer considered as the most important female voice in Africa presenting her new album and the most important voice of African reggae Alpha Blondy.
To finish a dose of congotronic with Konono Nº1.
From Angola, and thanks to the project of collaboration of the festival with Casa África and its contest Vis a Vis will be in Cartagena Toto ST and Cast Da Paz.
As for Europe, from Italy will be the great Franco Battiato.
Little is said of one of the most influential and important singers of European culture.
From England, one of the most important reggae formations, UB40 and Portugal Rodrigo Leão, who will be accompanied by the Australian Scott Matthew.
Another of the bets of the festival will be the concert of the Norwegian Moddi.
The Spanish part of the festival will feature Rosalía that will be next to Raúl Refrëe and Rocío Márquez, who will come to present to his new album.
Del Flamenco mixed with vanguards, as are the previous proposals, flamenco mixing with rock and is that Estricnina, or what is the same, Juanito Makandé and Canijo de Jérez, will also be in La Mar de Músicas, as will Macaco.
We continue to bet on the groups of the Region of Murcia in the 'Somos de Aquí' scenario, with the bands Perro, Ayoho, Noise Box, La Farándula and the project Fémina Project where the voices of Saray Melo and Paula Marengo join.
La Mar Chica, musical section dedicated to children, will feature the concerts of Feten Feten, Jamaikids, Malvariche and Perlita.
TICKETS
All the information and the sale of tickets, which are from this same Friday for sale, and subscriptions (with prices ranging from 35 to 75 euros, including discounts to retirees and unemployed) is on the festival website Www.lamardemusicas.com and www.redentradas.com
AN OPEN FESTIVAL
On the other hand, on Wednesday 19 will be held the popular Free Bar of La Mar, a day of free concerts in the city (seven in total), and La Mar de Barrios this year will be in Santa Lucia and Mar de Cristal.
It should be noted that more than 50% of festival activities are free between concerts and parallel activities.
Also this year the festival has the collaboration of the Autonomous Community through the Ministry of Culture, the Embassy of Chile and the Museum Violeta Parra.
Another important aspect is that, as is usual, it complies with the precepts of gender parity in the program.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO ONE OF THE MAIN CULTURAL EVENTS OF THE REGION
The coordinator of the Department of Culture stressed that "quality is one of the great seals of the festival," and stressed that "it is a unique festival, and this is recognized not only by the national press and some international press" This year the Contemporary Foundation has designated La Mar de Músicas as the best cultural event to be held in the Region in 2016.
"The Sea of ​​Music is a magnificent concentration of music in the world where culture is present as a fundamental baggage of our life trajectory," said Fulgencia Plazas, for whom "excels the originality and quality in its program as a hallmark of the festival" .
The Minister of Culture of the Autonomous Community, for his part, has congratulated the organization for the celebration of 23 editions;
"23 years working to position this festival as what is and what has become, a festival that is a reference not only in the national but also in the international arena" and one of the "pearls of summer festivals ", has declared.
SUPPORT TO THE MINOR SEA
Celdrán also congratulated those responsible for "the innovation of taking him to Mar de Cristal", since in this aspect he has recognized the "effort" they have to make "all in a committed and responsible and supportive way to help in the Mar Menor And in all the municipalities that have had to endure last season the problems "that were in the area.
"We have to join all to help the coastal municipalities of the Mar Menor with this type of initiatives attract more tourists," he has requested.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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