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The International Festival of Folklore in the Mediterranean, declared of Regional Tourist Interest, will celebrate its 50th edition from 10 to 14 July, making it the longest-lasting of all the festivals celebrated in Spain.

This year's poster, which will work in conjunction with the festivals of Jaén, Segovia, Cerdanyola del Vallés and Ciudad Real, has been made by the artist Manuel Páez Álvarez.

According to Jesús Pacheco, "the festival seeks the closeness of folklore with the public, presenting it in an easy and enjoyable way, as well as bringing it closer to the people, to its environment, to the everyday environment, trying to achieve a symbiosis with the city. Time will combine modernity with tradition, and will be an element for the promotion of the city of Murcia, its customs and heritage as all participating groups will become ambassadors of Murcia.

Thus, the city will become during these days a living and continuous stage, through the realization of the activities in streets and squares.

For this edition, the presence of groups on the streets has been doubled and they will act in an informal way, mixing with the public, inviting them to participate and dance on Avenida de la Libertad, Plaza de Santo Domingo and Plaza de la Cruz. festival.

Likewise, the stage, located in the Plaza del Cardenal Belluga, will host one more day of performances.

In addition to the formal act of lighting the Torch of Friendship, on Tuesday 11 at 21.45 hours, there will be dances and dances of all the participating groups and a music and dance show called 'El folklore de España' Which will be interpreted as symbols of the rich folklore of the different communities that make up the Spanish state under the artistic and musical direction of Félix San Mateo and the participation of Rondalla Lírica de Madrid, Ballet Fantasía, Spanish Ballet, Orquesta Lírica de Murcia and solo voices .

The program will cover the geography of the folklore of Spain: Extremadura (The dance of the cerandero), Catalonia (La santa espina), Castila La Mancha (A Mancha La Mancha), Aragón (Giants and cabezudos), Andalusia (Tanguillos de Cádiz), Madrid (School bowling) and Region of Murcia (Jota de la Alegría de la huerta).

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the festival, on Monday 10, at 9 pm, the Musical Society Las Musas de Guadalupe will perform different works related to folklore and the premiere of the Hymn to the International Festival of Folklore in the Mediterranean, with lyrics and music by Ginés Torrano and arrangements for Ginés Abellán Alcaraz, whose score was deposited by a relative of Ginés Torrano in the Municipal Archive.

In this way, a tribute will be paid to the festival and to two illustrious characters from the world of music, such as Ginés Torrano and Ginés Abellán Alcaraz.

Moreover, on Monday 10 from 11 to 14 hours in the Plaza de San Bartolomé and José Esteve Mora Square, 50 painters, as a nod to the festival edition, will perform an action painting in which they interpret various interpretations of the sea.

The works will be part of the exhibition 'The Feast of the Seas', which can be visited at the City Museum.

The participants are Antonio Martínez Mengual, Manuel Pérez, Miguel Fructuoso, Araceli Reverte, Ana Martínez, Buendía, Emilio Pascual, Esteban Bernal, Torregar, Cristóbal Toval, Nicolás de Maya, Manolo Pardo, Hurtado Mena, Rubén Zambudio, Martínez Gadea, Silvia Viñao , Martínez Cánovas, Manuel Páez, José Claros, Rafael Richart, Cánovas Almagro, Chelete Monereo, Carmen Cantabella, Nono García, Antonio Ballester, Gómez Ribelles, Carlos Pardo, Antonio Tapias, Jean Carlo Porto, Carlos Montero, Salvador Torres, Burgueño, Antonio Sánchez, Pablo Lambertos, Marcos Salvador Romera, Pérez Casanova, Esteban Linares, Eduardo Pérez Salguero, Jesús Silvente, Juan Bautista Sanz, Claudio Aldaz, Miwako, Arturo, Patricia Gómez, Elisa Ortega, Manolo Delgado, Montijo, Katarzyna Rogowicz, Jorge Fin and Severo Almansa.

At the Ramón Gaya Museum, a course for children from 8 years old will be held on Tuesday 11 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 'Camino a la tradition: falsehoods, tambourines and castañetas'

The space Los Molinos del Río will host the exhibition 'Other countries of the world' in which Juan Ballester, Juan Manuel Diaz Burgos, Tomy Ceballos, Angel Fernandez Saura, Pepe Hernandez Pina, María Manzanera, José Luis Montero, José Luis Vidal Coy and Frédéric Volkringer present images of different countries to which they have traveled showing their particular vision.

The Cardenal Belluga Square will show, on Friday the 14th at 11.30, 'The Festival Groups', which collects the artistic works performed live by the painter Nicolás de Maya of the different folklore groups during their performances in the festival sessions.

In addition, a seminar on folklore and ethnography will be offered with the aim of creating a documentary archive in which interested people and researchers can work and study about the folklore and traditions of our region.

The seminar has the collaboration of the Museum of the City, in which the readings of the different papers will be realized, with free access until completing the capacity.

The presentations and speakers are: Bolero dance in the orchard of Murcia by Alberto Hidalgo Pérez;

And Boats and fishing gear of the Mar Menor by Fco Javier Olmos Gracía;

The antiquity in the street.

The festivals of Carthaginians and Romans in Cartagena as a phenomenon of ancient historical evocation in popular culture, by Juan Ramón Carbó;

And Roads of water in the orchard of Murcia by José Antonio Moreno Micol and Enrique de Andrés Rodríguez.

Also the City Museum will offer, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 24 hours, the cycle 'Trasnochando' under the title '50 poets and the sea: The sea of ​​migrations.

The mythological seas.

The works and leisure of the sea 'will become a physical and temporary space for creation and recreation;

For the sensibility, in the Museum of the City, in which readings, declamations, dialogues ... of literary texts of different authors of all time, on subjects related to the cultural scope of the different groups of folklore that participate In the festival, in charge of Murcia poets, artists and actors.

The groups that will participate in this edition are:

Folklore Ensemble Majerán (Slovakia)

Argentine Company of Folk Art of General Roca (Argentina)

Dakar Ballet (Senegal)

Folkloric Ballet of Bío Bío - Bafobiobio - (Chile)

Folk Dance Ensamble "Bitola" (Macedonia)

Cultural Association Dance Group La Esteva (Segovia)

Dance Group City of Dos Hermanas (Sevilla)

Coros y Danzas de Murcia Regional Association Francisco Salzillo (Murcia).

Folk Group Virgen de la Vega (Murcia).

Coros y Danzas Virgen de la Salceda (Las Torres de Cotillas - Region of Murcia).

Choruses and Dances of Yecla Regional Association Francisco Salzillo (Yecla - Region of Murcia).

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia