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The Cartagena festival will take place from 17 to 25 July with a great musical offering.
Country Groups invited as Ana Tijoux, Astro, Camila Moreno, Chico Trujillo, Francisca Valenzuela, Gepe, Javiera Mena, Melissa Aldana, Pascuala Illabaca and Manuel Garcia will star in the Chilean national team
The guest of the 21st edition of the Sea of Music will be Chile. From 17 to 25 July, groups belonging to this country star in the festival.
Cartagena be soaked Chilean music and culture for nearly ten days.
The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro has presented together with the Ambassador of Chile, Francisco Marandio and festival director, Paco Martin.
The Sea Music facing Latin America and brings Chilean groups covering various musical genres as Ana Tijoux, a large international hip hop artist, who has put voice to the soundtrack of the time series, Breaking Bad. Nominated for awards Grammy bring his hip hop to Cartagena.
MÃ S FORTY GROUPS
Over forty bands will take the stage of the Sea of Music, of which ten are in Chile. Latin America is a great moment of musical effervescence.
Folk, Jazz, Pop, Dance, Rap, among other genres coalesce in offering the guest country, explained Paco Martin, director of the Festival.
The Chilean pop has passed the borders and artists like Gepe, Astro, Francisca Valenzuela or Javiera Mena will be present in this edition.
Not to mention the two most important figures who gave Chilean music, Violeta Parra and Victor Jara, who will be honored at the concerts Pascuala Illabaca and Manuel Garcia will Festival.
Manuel García pay tribute to Victor Jara in a special way, it will accompanied by Choir and Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia and interpreted versions of the late artist.
There will also be space for new songwriters like Camila Moreno and the aforementioned, Pascuala Illabaca. The Latin American country is living since 2010 in Spain which took place in the eighties with the Madrid scene.
In this move, there are four important figures: Javiera Mena, Gepe, Astro and Francisco Valenzuela, said the director.
The jazz will also be present thanks to Melissa Aldana and Crac'h Trio.
Melissa Aldana is the woman saxophone. Artists like Chico Trujillo bring their cumbia, mixing it with bolero, Latin American music, Balkan and reggae.
CHILE, display all ITS CULTURE
The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro has presented to the guest country, Chile and its Ambassador: Chile is the country with which we share culture in the Sea of Music.
We start this year with common elements that will narrow further Cartagena relationship with Chile.
Arts, lyrics but above all, as always, lots of music will focus on the guest country.
The first mayor also wanted to announce the news of this edition: the program is added a new section called We're from here and where groups of the region participate in concerts in the Plaza San Francisco.
Barreiro explained that media and economic repercussion of this festival is important because there is an indirect tourism promotion within these musical events.
It has also announced that it will be in late April when the already closed and complete with over 40 bands this program.
Finally, the first mayor has said how important it is for Chile this Festival: The festival days are the days of the guest country.
The Ambassador of Chile, Francisco Marandio transmitted Chile is very excited for this opportunity.
It is a country with a great history, Nobel prizes, Cervantes.
It is full of cultural events, theater, poetry, music, and so on.
He continued explaining that Chile has something to show and we are very grateful for that Cartagena has thought of us.
PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS
Finally there were two promotional videos of Cartagena festival for broadcast on the Internet and social networks.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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