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Union, April 8, 2009.
The Mayor of La Union and President of the International Festival of Cante de las Minas, Francisco Bernabé, Councillor for Culture and Director of the Festival, Julio Garcia, and the Director General for Cultural Promotion, Antonio Martínez, presented at the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, an increase of XLIX Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas to be held from 6 to 15 August.
The next edition of the Festival will pay tribute to the guitarist Vicente Amigo Córdoba, winner in 1988 of mining Bordon, first prize Flamenco Guitar Cante de las Minas.
In addition, the Festival will give the great artist from Cordoba its highest honor: the Golden Castillete
Among the out-standing track record of Vicente Amigo include the appointment as the best flamenco guitarist by Guitar Player magazine in 1993 Music Awards in 1998 and 1999, the Latin Grammy for Best Flamenco Album in 2001 and the Premio Ondas in 2002 between other awards, which established him as one of the greats of flamenco guitar.
Another noteworthy aspect of the next Festival is adding a new award: the I Flamenco Instrumentalist Competition.
Will have a place in this competition all kinds of instrumental specialties: melodic instruments or monódicos (violin, flute, saxophone, etc.). Polyphonic instruments (piano, keyboards, etc..) Percussion (box drum, drums, castanets / sticks, etc. .) both acoustic and electronic sound (guitar and electric bass, synths, etc..), with the exception of the flamenco guitar that already has its own call.
Also included are new artists working with art systems (experimental music, electronics, etc.).
The Instrumentalist Contest winner I will stand with the prize "The Reef" which is endowed with 7,000 euros.
The second prize € 3,500 award.
The registration period for the singing contest, Flamenco guitar and dance is April 30.
For its part, the deadline for registration Flamenco Instrumentalist Competition is June 15.
Finally, the Cultural Call International has opened its term until 30 July.
The bases of the Competitions and the Cultural Call can be downloaded from www.fundacioncantedelasminas.org.
The Mayor of La Union and President of the International Festival of Cante de las Minas, Francisco Bernabé, stressed that "the Cante de las Minas will pay tribute to a world reference in flamenco, Vicente Amigo, who had in the contest Guitar Festival our excellent springboard to the very important successes has been reaping. "
On the other hand, Barnabas said that "the Festival is aware of the times to include the new Flamenco Instrumentalist Award shows increasingly diverse forms of manifestation of flamenco."
"The new award will arouse the enthusiasm and interest of all fans of the Festival, since it is something completely new and what the union is again a pioneer," concluded the Mayor.
The Director General for Cultural Promotion, Antonio Martínez, has praised the novelty in the next Festival, saying that "The Union is assured, with these innovations, remain the great culture of the Murcia region in summer," exporting abroad "seal of quality from the International Festival of Cante de las Minas."
In another vein, has released the next headquarters of the selection tests of the competitions for the first time, will, on location, exclusively, provincial capitals, except the Union.
The venues that will host the selection tests are: Madrid (2), Barcelona, Granada (2), Salamanca, Valladolid, Murcia, Valencia, Albacete, Cáceres, La Union.
Testing will begin on the last dates of May to end the second week of July.
Finally, Salvador Alcaraz, Company E-Papyrus, in charge of designing the new website, has introduced a new format of the website whose address is www.fundacioncantedelasminas.org Festival.
The newly designed web site will become more accessible access to all information surrounding the event unionense.
The website of the Festival is divided into six sections: Foundation, XLIX Festival, Information and Tourism of La Union, History of the Festival (posters, pictures, videos, publications), registration and ticket sales contests.
The special interest in the flamenco event of The Union notes with the numbers of entries to the festival website were recorded last year.
Only during the last half of last year, came to register more than 93,000 hits, coming from five continents, which reaffirms the idea of the universality of flamenco.
As a novelty, it is noteworthy that the Festival is intended to provide live, through the website, the development of the three semi-finals of the singing contest, Guitar, Flamenco Dance and Instrumentalist of the next edition.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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