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The 23rd edition of La Mar de Músicas has been the most crowded to date.
For the festival of Cartagena have passed this 2017 more than 46,000 people, 4,000 more than last year, which is an increase of almost 10%.
A festival that hung the poster of 'sold out' in the middle of their paid concerts.
This time the festival has raised 37.5% more in the sale of tickets compared to the previous year, with a total box of more than 240,000 euros, and has returned to be one of the national information points during the nine days that has During the edition dedicated to the Latin American Sounds.
The Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena, organizer of the festival, has already begun the negotiations for the 2018 edition.
These data have been revealed Wednesday at the press conference offered by the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, the councilman delegate of Culture, David Martinez, and the director of the festival, Francisco Martin.
The first mayor, who has taken the floor to "take stock of one of the brands of the house", as is this event, and "give an account of the magnificent result that has had the work and effort of each and every one of the Who have been through La Mar de Músicas "has highlighted the" great team "that has been part of the same and has stressed" one of the central axes "of his government as it is" the decisive commitment to culture. "
The Sea of ​​Music directed its look in its 23rd edition towards Latin America as a space of common identity.
The musical program, the main engine of the festival, had 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, gathered around Latin America ten films, three documentaries, eleven Exhibitions and fifteen literary talks.
All together, La Mar de Músicas has made the biggest cultural event in Europe around Latin America.
The mayor of Culture, David Martinez, has focused on the "good performance" of the festival and also on all people who collaborate in it, because if not for them and also "for the work of other councils would be impossible "To succeed.
According to the councilman, the general public has been answered to be happy and pleased and praised that there is a loyal and new audience as well as a local audience that joins more and more to free concerts in the streets and squares of the city.
The event has not only been collected by the mainstream media in our country, but also by the international press.
La Mar de Músicas has been news in the French newspaper Le Monde, the Mexican Excelsior, the Peruvian The Republic, the Colombian El Universal or the public radio station German WDR, that moved to Cartagena the days of the inauguration.
It has been an edition of the festival that mediatically, and according to the company Kantar Media, has had an impact for the city of more than three million euros only in the national media.
La Mar de Músicas has made headlines in such prestigious magazines as El País Semanal, XL Semanal or in the main national newspapers, such as El País, El Mundo or ABC, which have displaced their critics here.
Also, the festival has been news nine times in the national television news and has had a great presence at national level also in Cadena Ser and Radio Nacional de España.
The tribute to Pablo Milanés was broadcast by Radio 3 for all Spain.
It has been, according to the mayor, "a festival of records", since it is the edition that more money has collected in box office, a 37'5% more than last year.
In addition, it has brought thousands of people into their activities with free admission.
The historic center lived a "fill" on the day of La Barra Libre de La Mar de Músicas, which is sponsored by Repsol;
Full that caused that the entrance to the concert of Macaco had to be limited since it could not fit more public in the esplanade of the port of Cartagena.
The festival hung the poster of 'no tickets' in the concerts of Residente, Carla Morrison, Rosalia, Pablo Milanés, El Kanka, Franco Battiato, UB40, Rocío Márquez and Oumou Sangaré.
There are concerts that would have sold double the tickets if there were more spaces, but La Mar de Músicas has much of its essence in the stages that it has, and so it has to continue.
According to the sale of tickets through the internet in the city of Murcia have sold 20% of them, "thus", in the words of Ana Belén Castejón, "to an audience that had been lost in recent years."
The mayor declared that she was "satisfied and totally proud that, by breaking down obstacles and opening the doors", "the people from the neighboring municipality of Murcia" have been "successfully reconquered", whose potential corresponds to the figure of 440,000 inhabitants who are called to know and visit The port city.
It has also come from Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Valencia, Alicante, Seville, Palma de Mallorca, Malaga, the Canary Islands, Granada, Bilbao, Cordoba, A Coruña, San Sebastián or Zaragoza, and tickets have also been sold in France, Ireland, England , Switzerland or Belgium.
In La Mar de Cine this edition was made for the first time a section dedicated to musical documentaries, with good reception from the public, especially last Friday, when the documentary about the last guitar by Paco de Lucía was screened.
The Sea of ​​Art has all its exhibitions open until August 31.
An opportunity to see them quietly after these days of so many activities within the festival.
La Mar Chica has brought together more children than ever before in San Francisco Square and in its workshops.
The Sea of ​​Letters has brought to the Cartagena public many views on Latin American literature thanks to the varied range of guests and activities that were included in its program dedicated to reviewing Literature in our language.
A Workshop on Creation of Books and a Creation of Literary Blogs, Poetry in 'Back to the seventeen', the homage to Violeta Parra, performance readings, novel written by young authors and a long etcetera have had their space during the festival to That almost 500 people have enjoyed Literature.
Also the Sea of ​​Barrios has been a success.
"For the first time we have come to our jewel of the crown, to our Mar Menor, and we have also brought Latin American sounds to a neighborhood as emblematic as Santa Lucia," commented Ana Belén Castejón, who has revealed that the neighbors have turned And between the two scenarios was exceeded the thousand spectators.
The director of the festival, Francisco Martin, thanked the confidence that the City has deposited in him and has been congratulated because finally "everything has turned out perfect".
The first mayor has announced that it is already working on the next editions.
During the festival, several embassies have been visited to prepare the next years of the festival, which will be unveiled when the collaboration channels are closed.
"We have made a big project because we have had the biggest, we have made history," said the mayor in reference to having exceeded last year's figures.
"This year we have been 10 and the next edition we want to be honored," finished Castejón.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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