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The Auditorium and Congress Center The Batel hosted this Sunday the concert of the Chilean Manuel Garcia and Tita Parra in tribute to the singer-also Chilean- Violeta Parra, in commemoration of the centenary of its birth in 1917. The event was attended by the Councilor for Culture Cartagena, David Martínez.
In addition, Rosalía and Raül Refree acted.
Tita Parra, granddaughter of Violeta, is a singer and guitarist, and toured the song of her grandmother accompanied by Manuel Garcia, who is currently one of the main Chilean voices and a great scholar of the work of the honoree.
Together on stage they also performed their own creations such as García's recent song 'De nombre Violeta'.
The 'La Mar de Músicas' festival, which celebrates its 23rd edition, dedicated to Latin American Sounds, this year commemorates the centenary of its birth, considered a leading voice of Latin American music, with a series of activities that include Music, art, film and literature.
Thus, the program 'La Mar de Músicas' includes a talk about his literary creativity, the exhibition of the documentary directed by his son Angel Parra, recently deceased, 'Violeta more alive than ever' and there is also a collective exhibition of artists Cartageneras focused on the figure of the most important folklorist of America, 'Back to the seventeen'.
The visual work 'Violeta more alive than ever', directed and narrated by the son of Violeta, gathers testimonies of friends and close to the creator, like the poet Gonzalo Rojas, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Gastón Soublette and Lalo Parra.
The documentary, which began in 2006, is one of the initiatives that have been presented this year in Chile as part of the activities commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Violeta Parra.
The only time Violeta Parra appeared on the cover of a newspaper was when she took her own life.
His work of collecting for years lost songs in the fields and recording them in five discs passed almost unnoticed in his country, as well as the fact that he rescued instruments like the guitarrón, that introduced in Chile the Andean charango or that became the first Latin American exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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