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La Mar de Músicas looks to Latin America as a common identity space in its 23rd edition.
The musical program, the main engine of the festival, has 24 concerts of Latin American groups of a total of fifty and their parallel activities, whose importance is possibly the greatest of any Spanish festival, will gather around Latin America ten films, three documentaries, eleven exhibitions And fifteen literary talks.
All together will make La Mar de Músicas the biggest cultural event that has been done in Europe around Latin America.
The festival's music, which was advanced by the organization in April, will bring together groups from Puerto Rico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Chile, Honduras, Argentina, Brazil and Guatemala.
The Festival has been presented at a public event this afternoon at the Casa de América in Madrid in which the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón and the director of La Mar de Músicas, Francisco Martín, have taken part.
The presentation was also attended by Councilor for Culture, David Martínez, the Director General of Culture of the Region and representatives of the embassies of Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Ecuador.
The mayor has indicated that she is proud of this musical event, which has been held since 1995 organized by the Council of Culture of the City Council, and has become a national and international cultural reference "thanks to the particularities of its programming," both by the fact Of dedicating itself every year to a country or corner of the planet as, mainly, by the amount of parallel activities that program.
Representing Puerto Rico will be Resident and his sister iLe, both were part of Calle 13 but come with their solo work;
Also the futuristic folkloric proposal of FFÉ.
From Colombia will be Candelaria and Aterciopelados, Latin American institution of mestizo rock;
Also Systema Solar, renovating group of the traditional music and the Caribefunk.
Two exquisite proposals of electronics with references to the Andean jungle are those of Ecuadorians Nicola Cruz and Mateo Kingman.
From Peru will be Kanaku and El Tigre and the Peruvian band best known abroad at the moment, Bareto.
From Mexico, Carla Morrison, known as the first lady of the Mexican indie.
Cuba will be present thanks to La Dame Blanche mix of urban music and traditional rhythms of the island, and by Pablo Milanés, who will receive the La Mar de Musica 2017 prize, also performing in a special concert accompanied by Pablo López, Rozalén and Jorge Marazu, Broadcast live on Radio 3.
Chile is present with the homage of the festival to the most important folklorist in America, Violeta Parra, when one hundred years after its birth.
The Mar de Músicas will celebrate it with music, art, cinema and lyrics and is that it is scheduled to celebrate the anniversary a concert where his granddaughter Tita Parra and the Chilean singer-songwriter Manuel García will participate, a literary encounter where both singers will analyze the letters Of the Violeta, the exhibition "Back to the seventeen" with pieces by six Cartagena artists giving their vision of the Chilean artist and the screening of the documentary "Violeta more alive than ever" by his recently deceased son Angel Parra.
From Chile are also the fun Chico Trujillo.
From Brazil will be Cielo and Maria Gadú two young singers, very popular in their country, and the instrumental band Bixiga 70. From Honduras, the exponent of Garífuna music Aurelio;
Of Guatemala Meneo and of Argentina Chancha Vía Circuito, considered the vanguard of the Latin American electronics.
From the Dominican Republic, and sharing stage with Tomatito, Michel Camilo.
Together they will interpret "Spain Forever".
From the United States will come two of the big bets of this festival: the young jazz singer Kandace Springs and Leyla McCalla;
Its music is the union of the folk of the old times, the jazz and the traditional folk music Haitian.
Africa, a pampered continent of the festival, will be present at the closing day.
The Music Sea has scheduled a big African party to say goodbye to Oumou Sangaré, the continent's most important female voice and African reggae king Alpha Blondy.
The night will end with the South African The Mahotella Queens.
From Angola, and thanks to the project of collaboration of the festival with Casa África and its Vis a Vis contest will be in Cartagena Toto ST and Cast Da Paz.
Europe.
From Italy will be the great Franco Battiato.
From England, one of the most important reggae formations, UB40 and Portugal Rodrigo Leão, accompanied by the Australian Scott Matthew.
Another of the bets of the festival is the concert of the Norwegian Moddi, the cantautor of the prohibited songs.
The Spanish part is composed of the new feminine voices of flamenco: Rosalía that will be together Raúl Refrëe and Rocío Márquez presenting "Firmamento".
Also Stricnina or what is the same Juanito Makandé and El canijo de Jerez.
To them they are added The Kanka and Monkey.
The groups from Región de Murcia have their own "Somos de Aquí" stage, where they will perform Perro, Ayoho, Noise Box, La Farándula, The Ben Gunn Mento Band and the Femina Project project.
La Mar Chica, section dedicated to children, will feature the concerts of Feten Feten, Jamaikids, Malvariche and Perlita.
The director of the festival has been in charge of detailing the programming of parallel activities, but first thank the support of the City Council, and the mayor in particular, to an event that has placed Cartagena on the map of major European international musical events And which has already consolidated as a well-known brand.
The Sea of ​​Cinema will reflect in the projection of ten films the profound renewal of Latin American cinema in the 21st century.
A cinema characterized by its formal freedom, narrative audacity, openness to new creative horizons and the recognition achieved at the most important film festivals in the world.
The selection of this edition includes fundamental titles of his latest cinema, such as the acclaimed films of Santiago Miter "Paulina", Pablo Larraín "Neruda", Jorge Perugorría "Fátima or the Park of Happiness", Anna Muylaert " , Kleber Mendoça Filho "Doña Clara", Fernando Pérez "Last days in Havana", Víctor Gaviria "The woman of the animal" and Arturo Ripstein "La calle de la Amargura", among others.
Ten full length films complete with three musical documentaries about Violeta Parra "Violeta more alive than ever" by Ángel Parra and Daniel Sandoval, Paco de Lucia "The guitar flies.
Dreaming Paco de Lucia "by Javier Limón and Jorge Martínez and Resident of René Pérez Joglar.
The Sea of ​​Art will have eleven exhibitions where it will be possible to see Latin American works Liliana Porter, Sandra Gamarra, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Felipe Ehrenber, Tania Bruguera, Walter Caldas, Vik Muniz, Alfredo Jaar, Santiago Sierra, Gasmaliel Rodríguez, Jonathan Hernández, Jorge Pineda, Yoshua Okón, Rosángela Renno and Regina José Galindo in "Ilumina nuestro frontera" by Nadin Ospina in "El Otro mundo" and by Alexandre Arrecha in "The Seduction of the Fragment".
You can also see photographs of the Argentinean Liliana Maresca and pieces by the Chilean Patrick Hamilton in "El Ladrillo".
The art section of the festival is completed by the exhibition of the Cartagena Juan Manuel Diaz Burgos, recent Bartolomé Ros Prize in PHotoEspaña with "Diario de 6 días: A photographer in Havana" and the photographs of José Luis Vidal Coy that visually ambient the work De Bolaño "The Savage Detectives".
In addition, Violeta Parra will be honored with the work of the Carthaginian artists Dora Catarineu, Nicole Palacios, María José Contador, Virgina Bernal, Juana Jorquera, Ángela Acedo and Cristina Navarro Poulin, and a photographic walk through Havana with works by Virtudes García, Moisés Ruiz and José Soto.
The Sea of ​​Letters will bring multiple points of view on Latin American literature to readers.
A varied range of guests and activities that make up the program of this edition that will review the literature in our language.
Poetry, literary blogs, performance readings, novels, young authors, a workshop to create handmade books ... will have their space between 11 and 20 July.
Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and Cartagena will join hands for ten days thanks to the participation of Ariana Harwicz, Juan Carlos Chirinos, Gabriela Wiener, Winston Manrique, Constanza Ternicier, Fietta Jarque, Julian Martínez, Marbel Sandoval, Pablo Raphael, Patricio Pon, Óscar López, Fernando Delgado, Lara López ...
For its part, the Councilor of Culture of Cartagena has highlighted the good reception that is taking this edition of the Sea of ​​Music, for which have been sold and all the entries of several of the concerts, such as that of the singer El Kanka, as well Like all fertilizers.
He has reported that the organization of all concerts and the parallel activities of art, literature and children's workshops "are working very well" and has encouraged citizens to buy tickets to the events they still have available.
At the same time, he stressed that this is the highest concentration of performances by artists from Latin American countries in Spain and even Europe.
"This year no one can miss the festival of La Mar de Músicas", has remarked.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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