The national premiere of training, consisting of musicians from Rajasthan Indian flamingos and receives unanimous public blessing of the Cathedral of Cante.
The cry of the poet Antonio Lucas and performances by the winners of the contests of 2012 completed a night that will be marked as the beginning of the internationalization of the Festival.
The coming-of internationalization project, the Festival del Cante de las Minas is taking place abroad, has achieved tonight unanimous public blessing of La Union and have stood the cathedral with the set Sing stage of the fusion of flamenco music and Rajasthan in India.
The Union and Jodhpur, with the world premiere of Flamenco Roots, have close ties and shortened distances through music.
The group, composed of ten musicians: four Rajasthani and a dancer, and four flamingos and a dancer, have interpreted a new repertoire, composed of a mining company ("Thousands of soul buried"), a Rajasthani theme, another set to the rhythm of bulerías entitled "Cante de las Minas" a siguiriya, bulería who have topped in solea, ending with a grand finale bulerías.
The miracle of the merger of the two songs, the Flemish and Rajasthani, has become a reality in the light of the response of a devoted audience that has not done more to cheer and encourage artists who have felt the Cathedral Sing your roots Flemish, dating back to the fourteenth century when they came from the first gypsies Rajasthan Spain.
This premiere musical presentation has been very successful and highly praised by those present, evident that the sense of interaction between the musicians is real and that the objectives of the new International Centre for studies on flamenco and music of Rajasthan, are based enough to carry out the search for common spaces between the two nations.
Prior to the performance of Flamenco Roots, the alarm of Antonio Lucas also been a journey to the origins of flamenco and what inspires the poet Madrid, who wanted to reflect all that suggests flamenco and feelings involved.
"Coming to La Union to say out loud some ideas about flamenco is daring. A The Union should reach only to hear, to listen, to remain silent while it is others who are shedding light and dark on the bottom of the night ".
Antonio Lucas recalled in his opening speech sensations child seized him during his first visit to the Flamenco Festival: "I have not forgotten the excitement galloping into the public market of La Union, cramped feel the air above a liturgy still not revealed to me and stay in that place of anticipation as flamenco is so difficult that meeting, as specific and universal, which is to call the mystery. these people I owe one of my passions. "
The poet and writer has called the Flemish as "a school of tolerance, as it is the best Culture. Because it is everything that is born of something true."
The evening concluded with performances by the winners of the 2012 contest, Ricardo Fernandez del Moral (Mining Lamp), Jesus Carmona (Trophy Desplante), Oscar Manuel (Philo), plus the performance of Antonio Muñoz (1989 Minero Bordon ).
Source: Festival del Cante de las Minas