The historic center of Cartagena will be the great stage of La Mar de Músicas this Wednesday, July 19 in the popularly known as the day of "The Free Bar of La Mar."
Seven free concerts, Macaco, Chico Trujillo, Bareto, Jamaikids, iLe, Noise Box and Ceu, thanks to the sponsorship of Repsol.
The great party of La Mar will begin at 19:00 hours in the Plaza San Francisco and will end at dawn on the Paseo del Puerto.
It is one of the festival groups.
Monkey has grown up with The Sea of ​​Songs, and the festival with them.
Since coming for the first time in 2000 in the Brazil Special, Macaco has presented all his albums in Cartagena.
Dani Macaco is one of the most important artists in the Spanish music scene and one of the most influential Latin musicians in the world.
Its sound is perfectly distinguishable.
A mixture of reggae, rumba, and other Latin sounds with a unique groove that have resulted in great songs that are already in the songbook of a loyal audience, often surrendered to their way of understanding music as an exercise of imagination, Quality, mestizaje, energy and universality.
Monkey will appear on the stage of the Paseo del Puerto after the Peruvians Bareto.
Bareto is perhaps the Peruvian group that has received the best reception abroad in recent years.
They are an alternative tropical musical group twice nominated for Latin Grammy 2012 and 2016, which combines cumbia, ska, reggae, dub, rock, and merengue.
The group began being an instrumental band until in 2008 it released "Cumbia", a disc of homage to that rhythm that opened the doors to him in his country, obtaining Gold and Platinum disks by the sales.
These friends of the school, who formed the music group to skip classes, accompany their creations with intelligent lyrics that ironically about the political corruption of their country, the power of money as false social value, living in the slums, gastronomy Traditional Peruvian, hypocrisy as a shortcut to success and lack of love.
And cumbia will continue on the Paseo del Puerto with Chilians Chico Trujillo.
They are the soundtrack of all Chilean parties.
Their blend of classical cumbia, bolero, Latin American music, Balkan and reggae, has assured them an audience of all generations.
The concerts of the day will begin in Plaza San Francisco with Jamaikids, the band that will bring the rhythms of Jamaica to the family audience, at 19:00 hours.
An hour later in the Town Hall Square will be the turn of the Puerto Rican iLe who comes to present his new solitary work after the rupture of Calle 13, group to which he belonged with his brothers.
At 20:30 the Noise Box group come to La Mar de Músicas with their fourth album "Every Picture of You is When You Were Younger".
The Artillery Park will host with free admission until completing the concert of the Brazilian Ceu.
Since her appearance on stage in 2005, Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças, better known as Céu, was a real hurricane of fresh air in the Brazilian popular music scene.
Cielo proposed another alternative, much more pop and contemporary.
The Sea of ​​Cinema
La Mar de Cine will host on Wednesday the documentary that Residente has made.
It will be at 12 o'clock at the Nuevo Teatro Circo de Cartagena.
Free entrance until capacity is completed.
During 90 minutes, "Residente" narrates its crossing around 4 continents, 7 countries and 13 regions after a DNA test.
In the afternoon, at 5:00 pm, "El Faro de las Orcas" by Gerardo Olivares will be screened and at 7:00 pm "La calle de la amargura" by Mexican artist Arturo Ripstein.
The Sea of ​​Letters
On Wednesday, July 19, in La Mar de Letras, the women's turn will be held in the Women's Voices talk today, with the participation of the journalist and writer, Marbel Sandoval, and the doctor in Literature Costanza Ternicier.
Through this meeting will discuss with the audience the importance of women in different facets such as letters or music, among others, as well as a tour of the female voices of our time.
This meeting will be presented by the journalist Winston Manrique and will start at 7:00 pm in the Auditorium of Arqua.
Then the meeting with the writer Juan Carlos Chirinos will take place that will be held at 8 pm in the Arqua Hall of Events.
Through the talk the Venezuelan writer will share with the public the experiences and thoughts of his two literary works: Read the cats in 1997, whose history intermingled with magic, freshness and strength won the prize of the Spanish embassy in Venezuela, and the Acid, humorous and cultured story of Nietzsche's apple in 2015. Through this talk Chirinos, accompanied by Winston Manrique, will transmit his experience in the field of literature while bringing the literary works that gave him professional success in his Long career as a writer.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena