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From 9 to July 24 La Mar de Músicas again.
Cartagena festival held in a Special Edition XVI Colombia, with a musical tour, film, art and letters by the Latin American country.
Elpróximo May 5 will be made known when the Casa de América, Madrid, the complete schedule of festival this year shortens the duration of five days, but maintains the quality that has always characterized him.
As proof of this, go through the festival, organized by laConcejalía of Culture of the City of Cartagena, Youssou N 'Dour, Patti Smith, Salif Keita, Gotan Project, Toumani Diabaté, Kings of convencience, Melody Gardot, Macaco, Aterciopelados, Staff Benda Billili, Omar Souleyman, The Very Best and Toto La Momposina.
La Mar de Músicas keep all side events and scenarios, street concerts again the importance of energy at the last edition.
The progress of this issue has presented today laconcejala of Culture, Rosario Montero, along with the festival filmmakerlooks, Francisco Martin, who explained that the festival will be dedicated to Colombia.
COLOMBIAN SAMPLE
The councilor explained that as a sign of musical journey to be made by the Latin American country estaránToto The Momposina, Friday 17 July, the highest representation of Colombian folk music.
Special also form part of Colombia Aterciopelados, July 24, a group labeled as eternally young, who have completed 15 years fusing traditional Latin American music with contemporary sounds more daring.
The group, whose bicefalia is represented by vocalist Andrea Echeverri and bassist Hector Buitrago, capitalizing on Anglo influences, without abandoning the whole way to understand Colombian music.
AFRICA
Martin recalled that the festival as always gives a good fit to the music made in Africa.
The golden voice of Africa, that is, Salif Keitavuelve after passing through the 2006 to present his new album, La Différence, which just won the Prize of the French music Victorie in the category of world music.
In La Différence Keita denounces discrimination against albinos in Africa.
Another major, if not the largest, Youssou N'Dour will be inthe Sea Music, Thursday July 15 to present his amazing Dakar-Kingston, a tribute to Bob Marley, reggae and Tyrone Downie, a member of Wailers.
If Salif Keita and Youssou N'Dour are the main voices of Africa, Toumani Diabaté is one of the most representative musicians, the great master of the kora.
The Malian musician will be joined in a project especialjunto the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia, Wednesday 14 July.
In La Mar de Músicas Toumani Diabaté will perform the concert they did in the Barbican Center in London with the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool.
Martin has reported that arrangements for these concerts have been performed by two geniuses of contemporary Lamus, Nico Muhly has arranged songs for Bjork and Antony and The Johnsons, among others, Ian Gardiner, an arranger and composer with experience in music for film, television and contemporary dance.
Toumani addition, along with members of the orchestra musicians are also featured Symmetric Orchestra, which accompanies the formation Toumani Diabaté years.
Democratic Republic of Congo will be in the Staff Benda Bilili festival, Friday 16 July.
Martin explained that this is a group of street musicians, several of them paraplegic due to polio, who live near the old zoo in Kinshasa and move in a wheelchair looking tuneadas Harley-Davidsons for the poor .
Their music is a seductive blend of classic Congolese rumba orchestras such as the legendary Franco James Brown funk to Afro-Cuban and Jamaican rhythms.
The Belgian producer Vincent Kenis, already presented in partnership with the powerful Konono N º 1 and Kassai Allstars present in the last edition of LaMar of Music, and residents of Kinshasa, is who has recorded a Staff Benda Bilili and is now on the line.
Malawi oral tradition and cosmopolitan electronic pop intersect to form The Very Best, training more luminous and captivating that you can find in any music genre today, and will be the last action which will sound at La Mar de Músicas 2010, Saturday July 24.
This group formed by the collaboration between Esau Mwamwaya, a popular singer in Malawi, and Radioclit, is a fusion of dance, hip hop and traditional music from Malawi.
His album Warm Heart of Africa in 2009 became one of the albums of the year in much of the music magazines.
Middle East, namely Syria will Omar Souleyman, Saturday 17 July.
Music is a legend in his country.
During the past 15 years, he and his group have emerged as a staple of folk-pop of the country, having published over 500 tapes in studio work and live recordings that are easily recognizable in the shops of any town Syria.
Of it can be expected party music without boundaries.
His music combines tradition with pop's own resources, giving rise to a mixture of sound energy and unique items such as keyboards reminiscent Arab mantric percussion, strings and a more than peculiar vocal cords, called dabke.
U.S.
The American legend of rock & roll Patti Smithsuele travel accompanied by the ashes of his friend, photographer and artist Robert Mapplethorpe, who died in 1989.
The festival director has reportedly come to the Sea of Music on Friday July 16, it is unknown whether the urn with the ashes of Mapplethorpe, but to prove a most important figures and certainly one of the women most influential in rock history.
The godmother of punk, adored by critics, claimed by the largest (from REM to U2, Dylan or Springsteen), appointed Commander of the Order of Literature and the Arts of France and included in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, will star Night of Truth, a newspaper sponsor of the festival.
United States will also Melody Gardot, Sunday, July 11, one of the greatest jazz divas of XXI century.
This American with French surname, which composes and plays guitar and piano, and that comes from the great American tradition, which goes from jazz to bossa nova, and have been compared with Peggy Lee and Julie London.
In Worrisome Heart, their second album, Melody Gardot and aim high in terms of its potential as a songwriter and singer, but it was their third album My one and only thrill, which has become known worldwide.
His velvet voice will be one of the biggest surprises of the festival.
In 2000, the trio of Philippe Cohen Solal, Eduardo Makaroff and Christoph H.
Müller released their debut album La Revancha Del Tango.
With this album Gotan Project released a soft, sweet revenge on behalf of that sound sexy and popular of Argentina, such as the tango, the whole world.
Now their music is synonymous with cool and chic.
After lengthy tour, two million records sold, and a music brand copied by many other groups, launched in April this year his third studio Tango 3.0.
With tango rematch got to be one of the hundred most important albums in the past decade, according to The Guardian, now seek to do the same with Tango 3.0.
in this new era.
Their sound is broad in this new job.
Do not leave Buenos Aires, but his musical journey extends to the streets of New Orleans, Nashville and New York.
Will be in the Sea of Music on Saturday 17 July.
At the beginning of the last decade, the word indie was still referring to a way of producing and selling music, not necessarily a genre, as understood today.
At that time there was a band formed by two pale Norwegians, who with quiet voices and acoustic guitars conquered the world by demonstrating that the best way to make noise is to remain silent.
Kings of convencience are like the result of mixing outgoing Belle & Sebastian with Simon & Garfunkel.
Come to the festival on Wednesday, July 21 to present his latest Declaration of Dependence.
Councillor reported that the closure of festivalestará starring Aterciopelados, by The Very Best and Macaco, Saturday 24 July.
Macaco has grown La Mar de Músicas, and the festival with them.
Since he first came in 2000 in Brazil Special, Macaco has submitted all of their albums in Cartagena, and would expect to Puerto present, the most successful album has given throughout his career, one of best seller in Spain last year.
Tickets for these concerts and can be purchased at www.lamardemusicas.com and www.ticktackticket.com or at the desk of Nuevo Teatro Circo.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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