The penultimate weekend of August was held at the Mill Derribao the fifteenth edition of Spanish Song Festival, an event that every year manages to gather on one stage artists and high-level participants and has achieved national recognition in this genre.
Councillor of Celebration, Florentina Garcia Vargas, and the president of the neighborhood association Derribao Mill, Pedro Emilio Conesa, presented this morning the Festival, which will be attended thirteen selected participants from, among other things, Malaga, Sevilla , Huelva, Lorca and Puerto de Santa Maria.
Among them will be played in addition to the prestige of winning prizes ranging from $ 3,000 first prize up to 600 euros.
The contest will take place on 22 and 23 August, from 22.30 hours in the Mill Derribao sports.
But the kick off of this Festival will be held this Saturday, August 16, also at 22.30 hours, with an opening speech by the Councillor of Celebration, Florentina Garcia Vargas and an opening gala that will feature Paqui Torres, winner of the 2007 edition, plus comedian Gema Jiménez and Mawy.
The Festival also will feature the singers Juan de Juanes, on August 22, and Antonio Carrión, Miguel de Tena and Rubito Son, the latter two mining lamp at the Festival Internacional de Cante de las Minas de La Union.
The event has a budget of 43,000 euros, more than half of them provided by the Department of Celebrations of the City of Cartagena.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena