The Sea of ​​Music continues to bet on the music made "from here".
Dog, Ayoho, Noise Box, Malvariche, Femina Project, La Farándula and The Ben Gunn Mento Band are the groups of the Region of Murcia that this year will participate in the 23 edition of the festival.
The stage "We are from here" located in the Plaza San Francisco will host most of the scheduled concerts, which will also reach La Mar Chica, children's festival program, or La Mar de Barrios.
"From its beginnings The Sea of ​​Music continues betting by the music made both in Cartagena and in the other municipalities of the Region of Murcia.
We want the bands to make themselves known to the international audience that visits us and to the national media that those days are in Cartagena covering the festival, "said the Councilor for Culture, David Martinez Noguera.
The festival has for some years decided to include in its programming the stage "Somos de Aquí" where bands from the Region of Murcia are programmed to publicize their proposals.
This edition this space will host Dog, Noise Box, Farándula, Femina Project and Ayoho.
One of the most original, crazy and shocking bets of music in the Region of Murcia has an animal name: Dog.
With an overflowing energy, imagination and creativity, they display on stage all the influences of those who are nourished, with talent, irony and charisma, something very difficult and strange to find in these times.
They will be on the stage "Somos de Aquí" on Monday, July 17.
A day later, on Tuesday 18, it will be the turn of the cartagenera band Ayoho.
Group that became known after winning the second edition of Vodafone Yu Music Talent and to debut with its first album "Deference & Wonder".
A record that showed that pop of high flights, of international vocation and grandiloquent songs.
Well, they are already in the study giving shape to what will be in October "Ikigai".
Noise Box, Wednesday, July 19, come to La Mar de Músicas with their fourth album "Every Picture of You is When You Were Younger".
An album with which the Murcianos embark on a new sound journey, they are more than fifteen years on the road, towards a more atmospheric and atmospheric music without leaving behind the explosiveness that always characterized to them and which they have not renounced, combining to the perfection the essence Guitarrera of the group with the originality of the new melodies.
Thursday 20 will be the turn of a musical project made by women, which arises around the female figure within the flourishing musical scene of Murcia.
Femina Project was born with the intention of claiming the weight of female voices in music, not only as mere performers or chorus players, but as composers, producers, instrumentalists ... Voices with personality, and songs with much to tell, embodied in the Own names of Saray Melo and Paula Marengo that also will have some invited artist.
Clothed by a unique band, they interact and collaborate doing themes of each one of them, as well as reinterpretations of feminine classics.
The "Somos de Aquí" scenario will close on Friday, July 21 with the Cartagena band La Farándula.
Drinks of night blues, ballads with hat lined and rock paused of last beers.
All this and more is La Farándula, the Cartagena band that has gathered four musicians with their soul divided between the sea and music.
A personal sound, from bar to port bar where time passes to the rhythm of the chords of a blues.
In the programming of La Mar Chica will be the band from Alhama de Murcia, Malvariche.
The musicians of the group have musicalized the tale of the brothers Grimm "The musicians of Bremen".
The Malvariche group in charge of giving life to this story in La Mar Chica is one of the groups referring to folk music in Murcia, with more than 25 years of experience.
They will be on Thursday, July 20 at La Mar de Chica.
That same day in La Mar de Barrios, Mar de Cristal, will perform The Ben Gunn Mento Band, musical project born in the city of Murcia composed of five musicians who tries to recover the Antillean musical tradition by playing old songs from Jamaica, Trinidad, Puerto Rico And Cuba.
With a sound faithful to this musical tradition - they build part of their instruments for this purpose - they approach what was once the Mento, El Calypso and Son.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena