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The Arab, Christian and Jewish cultures retake the streets of Murcia this spring, with an extensive program that brings music and art, dance and theater to our places of passage.
This edition will involve artists from over 20 countries.
The proceedings of Murcia Three Cultures Festival will take place in squares, streets, gardens and historic monuments that allow viewers to live closely and participate in this year with a vengeance.
Types selected for the Festival-Sephardic, jazz, sacred, Celtic, Andalusian ... music - ranging from the pure forms of the traditions and references to the participating countries, to mergers and latest trends.
Most of the shows are held outdoors, taking advantage of the warm spring nights, in public spaces, for its heritage and tradition are deeply linked to the history of the city and the essence of this Festival.
New for this edition are scheduled concerts in areas with the greatest capacity for the general public, such as University Square and the Cathedral.
In addition, the cycle is over Entredanzas tables Romea Theatre, an ideal to contemplate in all its splendor the great variety of rhythms that come this year to Murcia space.
Again, after four years, the University Square returns to the concert stage for the younger age groups, where they will dance to the rhythm of jazz, high life, funk and hip hop.
The Cathedral will host two concerts of Sacred Music festival premieres.
The interior of the monument with its sound feature will provide these recitals.
The choice of Algeria as the guest in this edition of the International Festival XV Murcia Three Cultures is motivated by being one of the iconic culture of Muslim countries.
The raï music is a typical musical style in Algeria, so much so that it was recognized by the Algerian government in 1985, after being censored by their ideology and liberal lyrics and reviews.
The raï, which in Arabic means 'opinion' is for young Algerians what hip-hop for Americans to Western rap or reggae for Jamaicans.
Responsible for opening the XV Festival Murcia Three Cultures are Algerian Samir & Fanfaraï Inal, who revived the tradition of festive street formations that inspired the important events and rituals in the
Maghreb of the century.
'Pearls of raï' is the suggestive title of the concert that opens the music section of the festival for the first time also in the Plaza del Cardenal Belluga, like the closing concert to deliver the highest capacity possible.
One of the most important points is that of the Festival Premieres section, and where classical musical works and performances created or prepared for the occasion arise.
First, Hims Mola & Symphonic Band will perform the sacred concert Molina Missa Brevis for Revelation of Jacob de Haan, a written Choir and Band, work commissioned to commemorate the thousandth anniversary of the birth of Pope Leo IX.
The second release is in the hands of the hands of the coral Ensemble and University Choir concert Murcia Symphoniae Sacrae.
For this project, has a cast of old instruments, choirs, soloists and Gregorian, with which complete the corresponding structure to office Catholic Vespers, which will be held with the most representative works of composers Concertato type ( teachers and therefore the use of sound contrasts) and drivers of polychorality Venetian Giovanni Gabrieli and Claudio Monteverdi.
This year we have included a small cycle of two concerts in the University Square entitled Young Area.
With these shows, the younger dance to the beat of rapper Baloji, who will perform with the Orchestra of Kinshasa Succursale Katuba concert, a show that crosses borders and unites hip-hop with the rich musical tradition of their country of origin .
Ogun Afrobeat, Afrobeat band the first in Spain, will perform with percussion, drums, guitars and trumpets, traditional Native rhythms of Yoruba culture, and its mixture with other African artistic forms such as funk, disco and soul.
Flamenco also be present in this edition with the brothers and the concert Piñana Three flamingos pa "three cultures, where the singer offers cartagenero adaptation of poems belonging to the three great cultures;
Christian, Arab and Jewish.
Ellika-Cissokho-AIDS will be responsible for mixing music from places as diverse as Sweden, Mexico and Senegal.
The Algerian folk come from the hand of Yacine & Oriental and the groove will Paraboolic concert featuring a collection of songs very powerful urban sound.
Music from here and everywhere, electronics and Algerian folk;
Western pop tunes and Greece;
funk and polyrhythms, creating a landscape of urban sounds.
Titled the spirit Cosmopolitan M. Millon Dolar Band group used trumpet, tuba, saxophone and percussion to perform songs from the Balkan, klezmer music and international pop versions.
In this edition there is also room for the fado, which come with the unmistakable voice strong and sensual and Inês Graça Foi deus concert.
Children a year will also be players with Cycle Three Cultures of Children, to be held at the Cultural Hall of the Mediterranean Social Work Box with two actions aimed at younger children.
Jewish culture also have role to Jasmina Petrovic & Muzikanten group.
This training consists of four musicians, the viewer closer to the essence of Jewish music featuring the best-known klezmer and Sephardic music repertoire issues.
Cheikh Lô, one of the great rebels of African music, great singer and composer as well as a distinguished guitarist, percussionist and drummer, will be responsible for closing the Festival with the show Jam.
Consolidated as the great tolerance and miscegenation, the Feast of the Three Cultures with the participation of numerous musicians, singers and dancers from many different countries and cultures who occupy the squares and streets of the city of Murcia from 20 pm on Friday 23 May to Saturday 24 May 24.
This year the party responsible for hosting the Performing Arts is the Teatro Circo Murcia with The Call, a musical about faith, with a live rock band and original songs.
A comedy about the passage from adolescence to adulthood, about friendship, and waking, starring winning a Goya award, Macarena García.
The Murcia Three Cultures Festival was born fifteen years ago with the goal of creating a meeting point between peoples and civilizations through art forms, with tolerance as a reference.
The music and dance, along with other activities, make a rich programming which aims to strengthen ties between cultures, in a time when the need to achieve solidarity among peoples has not lost its validity.
Murcia, a city known for its generosity, becomes every year on the big stage of this cultural crossroads, which aims to spread a message of tolerance, peace and respect among peoples, and remembering the happy years that copies coexisted in this Mediterranean city in total harmony Christians, Jews and Muslims.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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