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Everything is ready for the XVII International Festival La Mar de Músicas held from 8 to 23 July, this year dedicated to the music and culture of Italy.
A total of 38 concerts, 13 bands, 5 stages, 7 simultaneous exhibitions, 11 films, 12 writers and over 60,000 spectators expected, are the figures of this cultural event that began to take shape in a modest way for seventeen years and now occupies a consolidated place among the most prestigious festivals not only in the region, but of Spain and Europe.
So this morning, Mayor Pilar Barreiro, in a press conference at the Cultural Center of Cajamurcia in Pedreño House.
Barreiro has been accompanied by the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, the director general of the Book, Francisco Jimenez z, the director of the Foundation Cajamurcia, Joaquín Cánovas, director of marketing for La Verdad Multimedia, Jiménez J ose Manuel Romera, and the director La Mar de Músicas, Paco Martin.
The main novelty of this seventeenth edition of La Mar de Músicas dedicated to Italy is exclusivity. More than half of programming, two dozen concerts, will premiere in Spain and nearly forty percent will be at La Mar Music.
Ojos de Brujo, Julieta Venegas, Russian Red, Omara Portuondo and Chucho Valdes, Gino Paoli, Cyndi Lauper and Stewart Copeland, drummer of The Police, are just some of the musical figures who trample Cartagena these days, in five settings: Park Towers The Artillery Park, the Arab castle and the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
Of the 800 credits offered for sale have already sold 80 percent, data that advance this issue of La Mar de Músicas will be a success.
ALL UP TO THE EDITION "N MÃ S EXCLUSIVE
The Police drummer Stewart Copeland, has almost made ​​his bags to arrive at Cartagena, and a few days before the opening of La Mar de Músicas, on Friday July 8, will meet Notte della Taranta Ensemble to tie up all loose ends that remain of what will be the inaugural project of the Italian edition of the festival.
That night also the big revelation of Italian music, the new diva, the one everyone calls the Italian Amy Winehouse, Nina Zilli, will climb to rabe à Castle stage to claim the glamor of the soul in the XXI century.
During the presentation, have also released some new features to the groups already presented.
For example, already know some of the invited artists will accompany Ojos de Brujo on 23 July.
The already confirmed are Peret, Miguel Campello (singer of The Bug) and Roldan de Orishas.
They also confirmed that the concert scheduled for Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars will be replaced by the group Antiochus ² nia Font Mallorca due to cancellation of his European tour.
Music programming continues as occurred in late April at the Casa de America in Madrid: In addition to the opening concert will be singer-songwriter Gianmaria Testa (July 11), the traditional music of Enzo Avitabile & Bottari (11 July), the fusion of popular music and Nini D'Arac electronics (July 13), the great Gino Paoli (July 14), this combo of dub, reggae and folk music Almamegretta (July 16), the voice that has accompanied a generation of young Italians, Carmen Consoli cantantessa (July 17), polyphonic singing of Sardinia Orosei Cuncordu and Tenore (July 17) and the union of jazz trumpeters led by the Italian Enrico Rava Dave Dougan and American, with Avishai Cohen being joined by Uri Caine, Linda Oh and Clarence Penn on Tea for three (July 20).
He will also be the great composer Ludovico Einaudi accompanied by a sextet and string section of the Murcia Symphony Orchestra (July 21).
The special concludes with a score of Italian musicians playing popular music Girodibanda led Cesarre Dell'Anna Salento (July 22).
THE SEA OF ART
The quality of the festival is also measured by their parallel activities: The Sea of ​​Art, Film and La Mar La Mar de Letras.
This year, the Italian art come to Cartagena from the hand of Italian neorealism photographer Nino Migliori, who will present at the Palacio Molina, paintings Pesce grunge khet, documentary photographs of Gabrielle Basilico, the work of urban images of the couple Botto e Bruno Turin artists, public action that Italy held around the Spanish LSC, La Strategia Corp.
As a novelty, the director of The Sea Music, Paco Martin highlighted the Caneloni exhibition, bringing together 25 artists to create twenty-five Cartagena cannelloni recipe.
Italian will be a journey to the surface of a sluice box without leaving Cartagena.
A group show, small, fun and substance, in which artists have worked Cartagena on the surface of a sluice box and where you can see the work of Angel Mateo Charris, Gonzalo Sicre, Dora Catarineu, Nicole Palacios, Moises Ruiz, among others.
THE SEA FILM
The film will be present on the big screen with a tour of the country's history transalpine through some of the masterpieces of cinema.
The highlight will be the presentation in Spain of the film by John Turturro Passione, or restored versions of El Gato Pardo, La Dolce Vitta and A Special Day, the latter starring the great Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
THE SEA OF LETTERS
La Mar de Letras meanwhile meet in Cartagena authors of Italian literature today as Fabio Geda, Elisa Biagini, Antonella Anedda and Michela Murgia.
In addition to a poetry recital Lucia Bosé dedicated to his friend, the Italian writer Ana Marinid.
THE OTHER SEA
La Mar de Músicas crosses, as every year, the ocean to travel to the Americas that will be well represented 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 (July 20).
Cubans Chucho Valdes Omara Portuondo and recording together again and will release his new album in Cartagena Omara & Chucho (July 12).
Cuban, Haitian-born but are also the band has surprised the entire world music circuit The Creole Choir of Cuba (July 21) and took much joy in the camps, orphanages and hospitals where the victims were the earthquake in Haiti.
Brazil always has a place in La Mar de Músicas, and this year a Calcanhotto Adriana invaded by Gilberto Gil samba and steeped in traditional sounds of northeastern Brazil are its 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).
The United States will come two of the great, the night of July 22, the legendary Cyndi Lauper r prensentará for the first time in Spain his Memphis Blues and soul grande dame of 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 Moroccan based in Paris, just revolutionize the French music scene, Sophia Charaà ¯ (July 15).
For his part, Cheikh LÃ 'will be responsible for opening the closing night (July 23) presented his latest album.
Asia: From the Middle East, specifically Israel will act Yemen Blues (July 14), a group of Jews of Yemeni origin who 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: By The Sea Music will cool sounds of Afro Celt Sound System (July 9), the bases of Kuduro remix with French DJ Frederic Galliano's (July 9) and sweeping songs from Lloyd Cole (July 18) .
It will also be the great fado singer Ana Moura Portugal (July 19).
La Mar Ours: The festival is also a space dedicated to music made ​​in Spain and Cartagena will Las Migas (July 12), the project 'Camarón, the legend of the time' with Duquende, Silvia Perez, Rafaella Chicuelo and Carrasco ( July 13), Red Russian (15 July) the young singer from Murcia Maez (July 18) and El Guincho (July 23) Besides those already mentioned Antonia Font (July 19) and Ojos de Brujo (July 23) .
THE SEA OF MUSIC IN YOUR MÃ "VIL
The call for artists, exclusive concerts and other side of cinema, literature and the arts seek to attract tourists from within and outside our country.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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