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Next Wednesday starts walking a new edition of the most important flamenco festival in our country, which this year will bring to La Union to Jose Merce, Archangel, or Sara Baras Valderrama, which is dedicated this year's edition.
José María Manzanares, Bigas Luna and Jose Andres receive the Golden Headgear for being ambassadors of Spanish culture and its love of flamenco.
United States will also receive the Award Cathedral of Cante.
A few days before the start of a new dean Flamenco festival of our country, we continue to work tirelessly to ensure that next Wednesday, on the opening day of the Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas de La Unión, everything is ready.
In this 2012 will commemorate the 52 years of the Cante de las Minas, and despite the economic crisis so deep that affects our country and that affects substantial cuts to the world of culture, poster artists and activities to be to stage in La Union, is a reinvention of the festival, running through a golden age when the event more international dimension to raise awareness of Spanish culture, through flamenco.
The opening session will be opened Wednesday with the opening of the writer Maria Dueñas, author of great literary success The time between seams.
After the proclamation was to be the performance of four winners of the competitions held in 2011: Celia Romero (mining lamp), Juan Torres 'Nieto Bean' (Bordon Minero), Lucia Alvarez 'The Piñona' (Desplante) and Sergio Monroy (The Reef) as best instrumentalist flamenco.
After opening day, will begin six consecutive days of flamenco galas, with performances by Sara Baras, José Merce, Carlos Valderrama and Piñana, Dorantes with Joaquín Grilo and Pastora Galván-plus guest Rocio Marquez and Miguel de Tena, Archangel and Marina Heredia-and, in conclusion, Pasión Vega, who will debut first on the boards of Old Public Market.
The days of 8, 9 and 10 August will be dedicated to the semifinals of the competition of Singing, Guitar, Flamenco Dance and instrumentalist to give way on Saturday 11 to the final, which will put an end, with the awards , an issue that promises to go down in history.
And is that the level of the participating artists joined a cultural agenda in which no doubt with its own light shine presences bullfighter Jose Maria Manzanares, film director Bigas Luna and chef Jose Andres, who collected the Castilletes of Gold which will be honored by the festival mining, in recognition of their respective careers as ambassadors of Spanish culture and his love for flamenco.
Source: Agencias
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