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New names are added to the programming of La Mar de Músicas 2018. The festival, organized by the City of Cartagena, has announced that Rubén Bladés, Salvador Sobral, Morcheeba, the Cuban Daymé Arocena and Alba Molina singing for Lole and Manuel will be in Cartagena in the 24th edition of the festival.
Artists who join those already advanced a few days ago: Texas, Songhoy Blues, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Gregory Porter, FASHION, Fatoumata Diawara, The Human League, Moy Gomar, Kuve, Poolshake, Hams with Heels, Karmacadabra and Trending Tropics, the new formation of Visitor, Calle 13, along with Dominican singer Vicente García.
The festival will also feature Nélida Kaar and Alex Ikot, the two winning artists of this edition of Vis a Vis, a cultural cooperation project organized by Casa África, which this year was held in Equatorial Guinea, and which year after year brings music from an African country to a dozen Spanish festivals.
"Rubén Blades is the reference figure of Latin rhythms for a few decades, a name closely linked musically to salsa, this edition will be responsible for opening the festival, July 20. Both as a composer and as an interpreter, the Central American artist The author of 'Pedro Navaja', comes to La Mar de Músicas with the tour 'Walking, goodbye and thanks', which was announced last year as his farewell to salsa concerts. goodbye that has lengthened a few months after being engaged to the public for having been awarded with the Grammy for Best Latin Tropical Album and two Latin Grammy, as Best Salsa Album and Best Album of the Year for his Big Band Salsa ", said the Councilor for Culture of the City of Cartagena, David Martínez.
"It is the first time that a salsa album is recognized in the category of Best Album of the Year (...) If there is an occasion to affirm the importance of the genre, internationally, it is the current one, when salsa receives a new and considerable attention" , Ruben Blades said recently in an interview.
According to the Panamanian singer-songwriter, not responding to the current situation "would result in a lost opportunity" for the diffusion and evolution of salsa, "something that might even seem irresponsible on our part, especially for those who have supported development for decades. of salsa as an example of urban art, reflecting their existences, experiences and aspirations ".
He welcomes La Mar de Músicas to Rubén Blades so he can say goodbye to his audience after five decades of experience, accompanied by Roberto Delgado & Orquesta, the Panamanian band that has been with him for eight years.
With Cuba increasingly connected to the rest of the world, Cuban musical pride, which has been able to boast throughout its history, is still very much alive.
Emerged from that lineage, Daymé Arocena embodies the rich and diverse musical world of her land, also looking outward towards the world for which she has been spinning for two years.
Her mentor Gilles Peterson, the British guru of world music, is also the producer of the album that brings her to La Mar de Músicas "Cubafonía" on the opening day of La Mar de Músicas.
One day later, on Saturday, July 21, the festival will feature Morcheeba.
There is no chill out session where one of their songs does not sound.
Few groups like the British group have shone so much since the mid-nineties, when they emerged, in the trip hop scene.
They joined as few electronic music with funk, soul and jazz ... After some breaks and reunions between brothers Godfrey and Skye Edwards come to La Mar de Músicas to present "Blaze away" their latest album published in a few days.
Alba Molina had not recorded a record for fifteen years until in 2017 she wanted to pay tribute to her parents in Alba Molina singing to Lole and Manuel.
Forty years after her parents revolutionized the world of flamenco with records like Nuevo Día, her daughter comes to La Mar de Músicas accompanied on the guitar by Joselito Acedo on Tuesday, July 24.
In addition, the honoree Lole Montoya will participate in the concert.
Eurovisión made it possible to discover the enormous artistic sensibility of Salvador Sobral, the young Portuguese singer who since his beginnings has dedicated himself to jazz, but who captivated the audience with his unusual song Amar pelos dois, written by his sister Luísa, a singer who has accumulated an accredited career jazz and has shown twice in the Cartagena Jazz Festival.
After recovering from a heart intervention to which he has recently been submitted, Salvador has returned to the stage and will be at La Mar de Músicas on Thursday, July 26, presenting "Excuse Me", an album of English versions of American standards. contemporaries with influences of bossa nova, popular Latin American music and the trumpeter Chet Baker, of which he is an admirer.
The Equatorial Guinean musicians Nélida Karr and Alex Ikot, with their respective bands, will be at La Mar de Músicas after becoming winners of the ninth edition of Vis a Vis, a project of cultural cooperation of Casa África that every year brings some Spanish programmers to know the musical scene of an African country, this year Equatorial Guinea.
The bet of Nélida Karr, a 27-year-old young Equatorial Guinean, considered today one of the great emerging talents of Africa, and that of the acclaimed drummer Alex Ikot, took his first steps alongside the mythical Tony Allen and has been part of the bands of Manu Dibango or Youssou N'Dour, have been the winners of this project, and will pass in July for different Spanish festivals, including La Mar de Músicas.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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