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The Mayor of La Union and President of the International Festival of Cante de las Minas, Francisco Bernabé, the Minister of Culture of Region Murcia, Pedro Alberto Cruz, and Deputy Director General of Music and Dance of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), Antonio Garde, presented at the mythical Morería Corral de la Madrid, L International Festival of Cante de las Minas to be held from 3 to 14 August in the town of La Union.
The iconic flamenco del Corral of the Moorish, the most established in the world, has been the perfect stage to present the impressive cast of stars that pass through the Union during the first fortnight of August.
Francisco Bernabé explained in detail the programming, saying "only the best representatives of the world of flamenco could be accommodated on a schedule that will make the next festival in the greatest show ever made flamenco.
Dean Festival We are the number of issues and we will demonstrate the greatness of The Union and its competition, that will be remembered for many years. "
The Mayor of The Union congratulated "all those who contributed to the aggrandizement and prestige enjoyed by our Cante de las Minas, now definitively established by the Foundation Cante de las Minas.
With everyone's work has ensured that today we are able to ensure that the best existing Flamenco Festival takes place in the Union. "
Barnabas has highlighted various aspects of the next contest: "We beat the absolute record in terms of participation of young artists for the contest of song, guitar and dance, in total 143, up from six different countries.
In addition, the Cultural Call your awards granted exceptionally in order to pay tribute to the greatest personalities that exist in various cultural settings around the world of Flamenco. "
Barnabas has praised all the winners starting with "His Majesty King Juan Carlos I has privileged us to accept the honorary presidency of the Festival on its fiftieth anniversary."
It is recalled that King Juan Carlos will receive the Gold Medal commemorating the event, a distinction that has the unique and extraordinary character to be the first occasion on which it is granted.
THE FLAMENCO GALAS
During the event, have been given full details of scheduling the next edition of the Festival del Cante de Las Minas.
The first day will be Aug. 3 dedicated to the mining town of La Union Day which will accommodate the official anthem of the Union and the Festival, the traditional Tribute to the Miner and Miner's widow and the other evening Trovera performances.
A day later, when the time of the opening, which this year will be borne by the President of the Autonomous Community of Murcia, Ramón Luis Valcárcel.
The evening will close with performances by the winners of trophies Mining Lamp, Rafael Carlos 'Churumbaque son', Bordon Mining, José Andrés Cortés, El Desplante, Ana Morales and The Philo, Borja Évora, from last year's competition.
On August 5, Old Public Market will host the gala opening of flamenco with the performance of National Ballet, directed by José Antonio.
The Ballet, one of the main ambassadors of Spanish culture throughout the world, representing "The Chinitas Coffee," a fascinating journey through the fascinating and inexhaustible creative world of Dalí's symbolism.
A day after was the turn of Enrique Morente, who also will be awarded at this year with the Golden Castillete Festival, the highest distinction of Cante de las Minas.
Morente back to La Union to act before an audience that worships the great singer from Granada, the National Music Prize in 1994.
On Saturday 7 August, will experience a high level flamenco gala with a performance by Israel Galván and José Mercé.
Galván, dancer with an expressive language itself, returns to La Union, which has become one of the absolute genius of Spanish dance.
Returns to the stage that launched him to stardom in 1996 when he won the Trofeo Desplante.
That same night, the Cathedral of Cante enjoy the performance of one of the greatest phenomena that has flamenco in its recent history, José Mercé, the great artist from Jerez that is giant step on the stage unionense.
On Sunday August 8, another double action by the flamenco singer Mayte Martín and guitarist.
Catalan (Mining Lamp 1997), artist repertoire wide and long and is capable of interpreting more traditional flamenco with its sober and intense voice.
Manolo Sanlúcar will be the other star of the evening.
His style walks between purity and freshness, which is no need to seek other musical influences, but simply from the same roots.
A day later, the Cathedral of Cante enjoy one of his favorite artists: Miguel Poveda.
Catalan within the European Union 'No border'.
The mining town is always in expectation of the visit of the Catalan singer, one of its prodigal sons since I got the lamp Mining in 1993, having become one of the leaders of the world of flamenco.
Cadiz guitarist Paco de Lucia will be the culmination of the flamenco galas on Tuesday 10 August.
Possibly the best guitarist in the history of flamenco, is a splendid virtuoso artist.
His style is vigorous and rhythmic.
The Union will enjoy one of the myths and revolutionaries of flamenco, one of the few people who would deserve the label of genius.
After the gala, will be the time of the singing contest, dance, guitar and flamenco instruments.
Over three semi-finals, the most promising flamenco artists compete for Minera clinch Lamp, The Bordon Mining Desplante and reef as they did in their day artists such as Vicente Amigo, Mayte Martín, Miguel Poveda Israel Galván, who held the event mining your starting point to stardom flamenco.
TICKETS
Tickets for next year's International Festival of Cante de las Minas will go on sale on 1 June.
Can be purchased at the Tourist Office of the City of La Union (Pinion House building, ground floor), and through the web of the English Court.
OUTSTANDING PERSONALITIES
The presentation of the programming of the Golden Jubilee of the International Festival of Cante de las Minas de La Union has raised a very great excitement in the political, cultural, social and business capital of Spain.
So, have come to this event, the National Deputies, Vicente Martínez and Jaime Garcia Legaz Pujalte, U.S. Senator, Pedro José Pérez, the Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of Japan in Spain, Yoko Bayashi, the Director General of Cultural Promotion Autonomous Region, Antonio Martínez, the City Councillor for Culture of Cartagena, Rosario Montero, the journalist and the next edition of Cante de las Minas, Juan Ramón Lucas, the author of the poster of this year's competition, Martin Chirino, the restaurateur Lucio Blázquez, the dancer Blanca del Rey, and artists who will be protagonists of the next festival as Enrique Morente.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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