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Morocco will be the guest country at the 2009 edition of the festival La Mar de Músicas.

The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, made the announcement during a presentation at Cartagena in the final schedule of the fourteenth edition of this festival, which takes place from 5 to 26 July in various locations around the port city, which is actor invited the neighboring country, France.

Morocco is a neighboring country, which is a lot to learn, said the mayor.

Barreiro has been accompanied in the presentation at the Cultural Hall of Cajamurcia, one of the sponsors of the event, the Minister of Culture, Pedro Alberto Cruz, festival director, Paco Martin, Council Member for Culture, Rosario Montero and a representative of Cajamurcia.

The mayor pointed out that during the day of La Mar de Musicas Cartagena will be in more than 400 musicians from twenty different nationalities and 21 groups, plus exhibitions, visual arts, film and literature.

Despite this great landing of culture, La Mar de Músicas maintains its original philosophy, without competing with summer festivals and not follow trends or fads, said Barreiro.

The Minister of Culture, Pedro Alberto Cruz, also said that La Mar de Músicas manages to combine an exotic vision of different peoples with a traditional culture of the countries with which it deals.

The festival defends identity impure, contaminated, mixed in the musical, literary and artistic and exquisitely combines quantity with quality, he said.

Many of the artists who pass through the various stages of La Mar de Músicas performing for the first time in Spain: Keren Ann, on Wednesday 16; projects such as Milton Nascimento and Stéphane Belmondo, Wednesday 9, Ute Lemper, Benjamin Boilay, Andy Chango and India Asha Bhosle "all with special concerts for the festival.

Festival director, Paco Martin, said that advance ticket sales in excess of 20% over other issues.

This has ensured the full concert at Ruben Blades, Enrique Morente and Nick Lizard in Alpha Blondy and the "Oscar D Leon, to be held at the Auditorio Parque Torres, as well as those of Michel Portal and Richard Galiano, and Yasmin Levy, the former Cathedral.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena