LVI Meeting of Cante Jondo from La Puebla de Cazalla

Seville, June 24. La Meeting of Cante Jondo from La Puebla de Cazalla, one of the longest-running and most prestigious events on the calendar flamenco, will celebrate the next Saturday 12 of July su 56th edition at Hacienda La Fuenlonguilla with great figures of the cante, the touch and the dance such as Carmen Linares, Rafael Riqueni or Eva Yerbabuena and top-level artists such as Pedro El Granaíno, Encarna Anillo, Ana Ramírez 'La Yiya', Edu Espín, Salvador Gutiérrez, Patrocinio Hijo, Antonio Carrión and Pituquete.

In addition, it will have a program of parallel activities from Friday, July 4 will include exhibitions, tourist routes, workshops flamenco children's activities, book presentations, documentary screenings, round tables and recitals cante, free dancing and playing for all audiences, such as those of Rocío Márquez and Bronquio, Perrate with a touch of Paco de Amparo or Marco Flores.

In this sense, the mayor of the municipality, Antonio Martín, has emphasized "the capacity of the Meeting to attract diverse viewers from different backgrounds and interests who come to this event every year because here they find a space where they can share the flamenco experience in an open, free and community way”. An example of this is the XXI International Course on Flamenco which takes place over a week at the Hacienda itself and attracts people from many different countries.

Thus, without leaving aside the initial idea of ​​its founders, the Moorish painter and poet, Francisco Moreno Galván, and the singer José Menese, the Meeting of Cante Jondo It has been growing and diversifying, accommodating the different aesthetics that the universe encompasses. jondo current and becoming an example of “how the flamenco is capable of articulating and serving as a tool for social and educational transformation." Through, in this case, specific activities aimed at inmates of the Penitentiary Center, workshops flamenco for the little ones or the VIII edition of the Youth Meeting of Cante Jondo.

Tribute to Moreno Galván

Specifically, the traditional meeting This year will celebrate a very special anniversary: ​​the centenary of the birth of Francisco Moreno Galván (1925-1999), one great innovators of flamenco literature and a key figure for the Moorish fans who keeps his mark alive both in the defense of his concept of cante as in his aesthetics, maintaining even after his death his works that illustrate the posters of each edition.

To pay tribute to him, the event will feature one of the leading voices of flamenco, how is Carmen Linares, living legend of cante and teacher of all subsequent generations of artists jondos, who is now celebrating 40 years on stage.