Closing the Jerez Festival, We spoke with its director, Carlos GranadosAnd we do it in the hall of the Villamarta TheatreA witness to and supporter of the creativity, dreams, and projects of hundreds of both orthodox and unorthodox artists. For Granados, preserving the essence means ensuring rhythm, truth, and roots. And all this with the same nerves that artists feel before going on stage. Nerves and a great deal of respect. Thirty editions are not just a round number. They represent years of successes, joys, but also adversities, difficult economic times, social, aesthetic, and political changes, and even a pandemic that called everything into question. And the Jerez Festival carried on. Carlos Granados inherited a Festival that already had a very strong identity, and that is no easy feat. We talked with him about all of this, its highs and lows.
