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The 50 º Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas de La Union will this year with the presence of Paco de Lucía, Enrique Morente, Miguel Poveda and the National Ballet, as noted by the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, in the presentation of festival held today at the Corral de la Moreria in Madrid, accompanied by the mayor of La Union, Francisco Barnabas, and the deputy general manager of Music and Dance of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), Antonio Garde.
The festival takes place this year between 3 and 14 August in the Old Public Market in the town of La Unión (Murcia).
The first day will be dedicated to the mining town with the 'Day of The Union ", which will accommodate the official anthem of the Union and the festival, the traditional homage 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 is payable by the president of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel.
The evening will close with performances by the winners of the trophies 'Mining Lamp', Rafael Carlos 'Churumbaque son', 'Bordon Mining', José Andrés Cortés, 'The Desplante', Ana Morales and 'Philo', Borja Evora of 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 'El Café de Chinitas', a journey through the creative world of Dalí's symbolism.
Day 6 The day will act Enrique Morente, the National Music Prize in 1994, which will be awarded in this edition with the Golden Castillete Festival, the highest distinction of Cante de las Minas.
On Saturday August 7th will be a gala performance of flamenco with Israel Galván and José Mercé.
On Sunday August 8 there will be another double action by the singer Mayte Martin and guitarist.
9 is scheduled performance by Miguel Poveda, 'Mining Lamp' in 1993, presenting 'Sin frontera'.
Cadiz guitarist Paco de Lucia will be the culmination of the flamenco galas, Tuesday 10 August.
Contest
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 stand up with the 'Mining Lamp', 'The Refrain Mining', 'The Desplante' and 'The Reef' as they did in their day artists such as Vicente Friend, Mayte Martín, Miguel Poveda and Israel Galván, who held the event mining your starting point to stardom flamenco.
Tickets for this 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.
Source: CARM
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