Toumani Diabate, Molotov, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Lila Downs, Gino Paoli, Zaz, Asian Dub Foundation, Kakkmaddafakka, Melody Gardot and the sticker will be in the Sea of ​​Music 2015 Special Chile, which today has officially presented in Madrid with the assistance the mayor
Chile capital Cartagena. From 17 to 25 July the Sea of Music will host the largest cultural landing has been made ​​in Spain of Chilean culture.
Arts, literature and especially Latin American country music star in those days the festival activities organized by the municipality of Cartagena, which reaches its 21th edition, and Wednesday was officially presented in Madrid, an act that has had the presence of the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, ambassador of Chile in Spain, Francisco Marambio, and the director of the Sea of Music, Francisco Martin ..
Musically, the highlights of this year are Molotov, Tiken Jah Fakoly, James Vincent McMorrow, Lila Downs, Zaz, Toumani Diabate accompanied by his son Sidiki, Asian Dub Foundation, Kakkmaddafakka, Francisca Valenzuela, Javiera Mena, Melody Gardot and the sticker.
The Italian songwriter Gino Paoli collect the the Sea of ​​Music Award for his career spanning more than half a century.
All tickets are already on sale, including fertilizers festival.
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Chile, star of this year, is living in his great musical moment.
The Sea of Music will make a route that will go from folklore to electronics, from jazz to pop, showing the historical evolution of its sounds.
For many, the awakening of the Chilean Violeta Parra music started, which pascuala ilabaca remember.
After the figure of Violeta, he was Victor Jara and movement l to new Chilean song protagonists represented in Cartagena Quilapayún and the draft Manuel Garcia Victor Jara Symphony, accompanied by Choir and Symphony Orchestra of Murcia and Pedro Guerra, as guest artist.
After the cultural break by years of dictatorship and the resurgence of the songwriting, Chile is placed back on the international map of music thanks to pop, and with names like Javiera Mena, Camila Moreno, Francisca Valenzuela, Gepe and Astro.
Ana Tijoux, the greatest exponent of Latin America in rap, tropical Chico Trujillo and the great promise of jazz Melissa Aldana, will also be present in the Sea of Music, Special Chile.
The parallel activities dedicated to the Latin American country also counted in La Mar de Letras with writers Jorge Edwards, one of the intellectual references of Chile, writer, lawyer, journalist, diplomat and Cervantes Prize, Pablo Simonetti, author of best sellers in the country and figure respected in the discussion of public policies, Carlos Franz professor at the Universities of Cambridge and London, a contributor to El Pais and whose works have been translated into a dozen languages, Alejandra Costamagna, journalist and author consolidated and Gloria Dünkler, poet and creator one of the most striking microcosms of contemporary Chilean poetry.
In La Mar de Arte there will be interventions and exhibitions of Monica Bengoa, an artist known for her experimentation with materials in showing their work and Fernando Prats, one of the most renowned Chilean artists in the international contemporary scene, whose work always refers to areas and extreme situations, applauded the Venice Biennale in 2011.
They will also be in Cartagena Magdalena Correa, whose works are characterized by a set of architecture and nature, combining art with the documentation, photography to video and always with a dose of social demands.
For his part, José Pedro Godoy will be with his plastic works full of eroticism and sensuality, Martin La Roche creating a new project through precarious and fragile media such as cardboard, paper and watercolor, and Rossell Meseguer with Tamarugal, where Through photography and documentation capacity mining shown to change the policies, society, economy and landscape of a country.
The Sea Film.
Its diversity and its impact, the Chilean cinema have become one of the most recognized films from recent years.
Chilean cinema is filled with awards the most prestigious international festivals in recent years.
Only in Sundance, since 2012, five films of Chilean directors have participated in the official selection and won awards.
Hence the constant presence at festivals like Cannes, San Sebastian, Berlin ... or milestone that a film director Pablo Larrain has been nominated for the first time joins the Oscars, or that this same director has won the Bear Silver Berlinale for his latest film.
The Sea of Music will offer a journey through the last and most important work of this film which is scheduled to Sebastián Lelio Gloria, Pablo Larrain No, Andres Wood Violeta Went to Heaven, Fernando Launderers Things are as they are, Matías Rojas Valencia Root, Elizabeth Ayguavives The magnetic tree, Matías Bize The fish life, Alejandro Jodorowsky The dance of reality and Fernando Guzzoni dog meat.
Besides the documentary will be screened Cantata Santa Maria de Iquique John Paul Minguillón and Carlos Belmonte.
Chile not only will live the festival.
Music programming as usual will open to the sounds of the world doing a tour of America, Africa and Europe in seven stages.
Torres Park Auditorium, main stage of the festival, located in one of the seven hills of the city and between the Roman theater and the Bassin de Cartagena will host performances by the Mexican band Molotov on his tour of celebration for his 20-year career and the Ivorian Tiken Jah Fakoly in his only concert in Spain, presenting his latest album Dernier.
A day later it will be the turn of the Irish singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow and presentation Chocolate Bullets and Lila Downs.
French singer Zaz start here your tour of Spain and Melody Gardot submit Currency of Man. The closing of the festival with El Puchero del Hortelano and the sticker promises to be moved.
They also act in this scenario and Francisca Javiera Mena Valenzuela.
The scenario of the Arab castle, located on the same hill Torres Park Auditorium, and where they are held around this building's funky concerts XII century, Curacao will host the group kuenta i Tambú, the dj Mystery Skulls and Chilean Ana Tijoux, Gepe and Astro.
Auditorium The Batel, modern building in the port of Cartagena designed by Jose Selgas and Lucia Cano, will be the stage where the festival pay tribute to Gino Paoli and granted its prize for worldwide flooded their simple melodies and extraordinary songs For over half a century.
And his commitment to love and beauty.
The Italian singer will be joined in this concert by S ilvia Perez Cruz, Black Eyed Peas and Christina Rosenvinge.
The Batel also host concerts and Chilean Manuel García Quilapayún. The festival has put on sale 350 credits to 80 euros to attend all concerts Torres Park Auditorium, Arabic Castillo and Auditorio El Batel.
The scenario of the Cathedral, ruins of what was the cathedral of the Diocese of Cartagena and where tradition says Spain's first church was built in the Byzantine era, this edition will host concerts of English Douglas Dare, the master of the kora Toumani Diabate accompanied by his son Sidiki Diabate, the Canadian Owen Pallett and Norwegian Sandra Kolstad.
Besides those already mentioned pascuala ilabaca and Melissa Aldana.
This scenario has its own fertilizer.
Hundred go on sale at 35 euros.
The Plaza San Francisco hosts La Mar Chica, musical programming for the whole family starring Katembe Kuduro Family Project, The Pinker Tones & Rolf Flower in the Polar Circle, Pepica and stupid, and Ballet Africain Sunugal. Also the new cycle Here we are with groups of Murcia this first year with the participation of La Banda del Pepo, Los Últimos Bathers, The Good, the Bad and the Mena and Bantastic Fand.
All these concerts are free.
The promenade of the Port of Cartagena hosts like every year the open bar of La Mar night when the city is filled with thousands of visitors willing to enjoy free concerts.
This edition with Asian Dub Foundation, the Norwegian Kakkmaddafakka and wag.
Finally, in the Town Hall Square with the impressive modernist building of the Town Hall, the winners are scheduled Vis a Vis program House Noumoucounda Cissoko Africa and Aida Samb, Colombian Meridian Brothers, Queen of the Spanish miscegenation Amparo Sánchez, Voodoo Game, Chico Trujillo and Raul Rodriguez are presenting their reason.
Free concerts.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena