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La Casa de America in Madrid, was today the setting for the presentation of the XVII The Sea Music Festival this year is to Italy as the guest, an act that has been attended by the Mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, festival director, Francisco Martin, the director of Radio3, Lara Lee, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona, ​​Salvatore Schirmer, and the mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé.
Among those attending was also the actress Lucia Bosé.
La Mar de Músicas has distinguished itself since its inception by directing their gaze to the music taking place on five continents, traditional, eclectic, advanced ...
The starting point, this year from Italy.
Country to which the Cartagena festival devotes its seventeenth edition.
But the musical tour, will go further.
Proposals will be made based on the renewal of popular music and also paying special attention to the sounds coming from America.
A festival that also shine the word exclusive.
More than half of the programming will premiere in Spain and nearly forty percent of the concerts will be at La Mar de Músicas.
The festival will be held from 8 to 23 July.
ITALY SPECIAL
The tarantula venom threatens to cross the body of all those attending the inauguration of the festival and the taranta, not flamenco, but the music that accompanied the ancient ritual of healing the bite of the tarantula, the Piglia (Italy), will star.
This traditional music far from being forgotten, comes from the Middle Ages, has been impressed by his frenetic rhythms such prominent figures in the history of music as Joe Zawinul and Stewart Copeland, and just be the latter, drummer of the legendary band The Police , who will be in Cartagena accompanied by a dozen musicians transalpine inaugurating the festival, and showing his unique vision and afros rock touches.
El Especial Italy meet in Cartagena also the young soul singer Nina Zilli (July 8), the singer Gianmaria Testa (July 11), the traditional music of Enzo Avitabile & Bottari (July 11), the fusion of popular music electronic and Nini D'Arac (July 13), the great Gino Paoli (July 14), this combo of dub, reggae and traditional music Almamegretta (July 16), the voice that has accompanied a generation of young Italians, the cantantessa Carmen Consoli (July 17), polyphonic singing of Sardinia Orosei Cuncordu and Tenore (July 17) and the union of jazz trumpeters led by Italian American Enrico Rava and Dave Dougan, with Avishai Cohen to join the Uri Caine, Linda Oh and Clarence Penn on Tea for 3 (20 July).
Also will the great composer Ludovico Einaudi accompanied by a sextet and the string section of the Murcia Symphony Orchestra (July 21).
The special concludes with a score of Girodibanda Italian musicians playing popular music of Salento led by Cesarre Dell'Anna (July 22).
La Mar de Músicas has also been characterized over the years, the quality of parallel activities undertaken around the country invited and gathered in the Art Projects The Sea, The Sea Film and La Mar de Letras.
In Cartagena will be exhibitions of Italian neorealism photographer Nino Migliori, paintings Pesce grunge khet, documentary photographs of Gabrielle Basilico, the work of urban images of the artist couple Turin Botto e Bruno, public action to be carried around LSC Spanish to Italy, La Strategia Corp. and freshness of the images of Alfredo D'Amato.
The Sea of Cinema will present a tour of the country's history through its trasalpino film and La Mar de Letras meet in Cartagena current authors of Italian literature as Elisa Biagini, Antonella Anedda, Michela Murgia and Fabio Geda.
In addition to a poetry that Bosé Lucia dedicated to her friend, the Italian writer Ana Marinid.
America.
The American continent is well represented at this year's festival with a number of groups.
Jamaica is expressed by two of its longest-lived and legendary bands, reggae the Third World (July 9) and the ska Skatalites (20 July).
Cubans Chucho Valdes Omara Portuondo and recording together again and will debut their new album in Cartagena Omara & Chucho (July 12).
Cuban, Haitian-born but are also the band that has surprised the entire world music circuit The Creole Choir of Cuba (July 21) and so many joys brought to the camps, orphanages and hospitals where the victims were Haiti's earthquake.
Brazil always has its place in La Mar de Músicas, and this year a Adriana Calcanhotto invaded by Gilberto Gil samba and imbued with the traditional sounds of northeastern Brazil are the protagonists (July 16).
Cartagena also be heard in Garifuna music of Aurelio (July 18) and avant-garde sounds of the Mexican Institute of Sound (July 22).
United States will come two of the great, the night of July 22, the legendary Cyndi Lauper to act first in Spain to present his Memphis Blues and the great lady of soul Mavis Staples.
Africa.
Born in Belgium but with a disc devoted to his Egyptian origins will be in Cartagena Natacha Atlas (July 10).
So will, the Morocco based in Paris, just revolutionize the French music scene, Sophia Red Spectacled Amazon ¯ (July 15).
As happened in other wars on the African continent a group of musicians from Sierra Leone met in the refugee camp to make things easier for residence of their compatriots.
A documentary and a CD of them have surprised the world.
Will be in La Mar de Músicas Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars (July 19).
For his part, Cheikh LÃ 'will be responsible for opening the closing night (July 23) presented his latest album.
Asia. In the Middle East, specifically Israel will act Yemen Blues (July 14), a group of Yemeni Jews to confront their traditions with influences from blues and soul and Balkan Beat Bok (July 15), combo that takes Balkan traditional elements and adds notes of Jewish music, electronica, dub, reggae, hip hop ... Europe.
Music By The Sea will cool sounds of Afro Celt Sound System (July 9), the bases of Kuduro remix with French DJ Frederic Galliano's (July 9) and the captivating lyrics Lloyd Cole (July 18).
It will also be the great Portuguese fado singer Ana Moura (July 19).
La Mar Nuestra.
The festival is also an area dedicated to the music made ​​in Spain and Cartagena will Crumbs (12 July), the project Shrimp legend Duquende time, Silvia Perez, Rafaella Chicuelo and Carrasco (13 July), Russian Red (July 15) and the young singer from Murcia Maez (July 18).
The closing night (July 23) the star in two friends and the festival, the group Ojos de Brujo in his farewell tour will be a special concert with guest artists and El Guincho.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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