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UB40 reggae stars La Mar de Musicas de Cartagena (21/07/2017)

Little imagined UB40, a group of working class friends from Birmingham in 1978, who would become the most successful reggae group on a planetary scale.

Inspired by the choice of name on the British forms of aid to the unemployed who filled each week, the eight members of the group have sold seventy million records in almost four decades and has placed some fifty songs in The lists of success of the United Kingdom.

Their versions of Red Red Wine (Neil Diamond) and Can not help falling from love (Elvis Presley) are among the most popular subjects of the 80's, and the people who, thanks to them, have become familiar with the music of Jamaica is counted in millions.

With a new album in the hands and the classics always come Friday, July 21 at La Mar de Músicas.

Another of the protagonists of the penultimate night of the festival will be Rocío Márquez that will act at 21:30 hours in the Park of Artillery presenting its last disc Firmamento.

"Perhaps the most talented young talent in modern flamenco." "His art, still expanding, is not an aesthetic gesture.

It is a proclamation of sovereignty over the old and the new. "" Respectful of her teachers, Morente's debtor and the best classics, the sweet and serene art of this seductive and exemplary figure has no turning back.

It begins to mark an era. "" Freedom without armor in flamenco. "" Vocal and aesthetic delirium. "Little more can be added to the now to present to Rocío Márquez than what specialized criticism says of her.

The singer from Huelva comes to La Mar de Músicas to present her new work Firmamento.

But the day of Friday will be long.

The concerts will begin at 7:00 p.m. on San Francisco Square, where La Mar Chica will conclude with the Perlita concert.

In the same square and already at 20:30 hours will perform the group of Cartagena La Farandula.

Half an hour before, but in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, the Ecuadorian Mateo Kingman will offer his great mixture of electronic and Amazonian sounds.

After the concert of the British UB40 and already in Arab Castle will be the turn for the Colombians Systema Solar.

Renewers of traditional Colombian music is a collective of music and video of the Caribbean region of Colombia.

Its members come from diverse territorial and sonorous latitudes and have been able to find among the different Afro-Caribbean vibrations, an infinite sea of â€‹â€‹possibilities to improve the strength and the power of the Colombian music.

After them it will be the turn of Meneo to show his music out of prejudice.

The Sea of â€‹â€‹Cinema

12:00 p.m.

The guitar flies.

Dreaming to Paco de Lucia, Javier Limón and Jorge Martinez.

New Circus Theater of Cartagena.

Documentary film.

5:00 p.m.

Fatima or The Park of the Fraternity, by Jorge Perugorría.

Cuba.

New Circus Theater

7:00 p.m.