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Miguel Poveda
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FESTIVAL DE JEREZ 2008. MIGUEL POVEDA, 'SIN FRONTERA'
Nothing is eternal
To Miguel, at El Candela
Silvia Calado. Jerez, March 7th, 2008
'Sin Frontera'. Miguel Poveda : cante. Luis el Zambo: cante. Moraíto: guitar. Chicuelo: guitar. Andrés Peña: baile. Carlos Grilo, El Lúa: clapping. 12th Festival de Jerez 2008. Teatro Villamarta. Jerez (Cádiz, Spain), March 7th, 2008. 9 p.m.
Miguel Poveda, Luis el Zambo and Moraíto (Photo Daniel Muñoz)
Since in this show it was decided that there's no time or space, that there are no barriers, the same thing can be a stand in Jerez or the Cueva del Candela. So last night 'Sin Frontera' was a tribute to Miguel, owner of the mythical flamenco bar in Madrid, whose death has left flamenco overwhelmed. Just another party like the countless ones held over the past thirty years downstairs at the bar in Lavapiés by a thousand and one combinations of cantaores, tocaores, bailaores and other birds. Coinciding in this penultimate party were Miguel Poveda , Chicuelo, Luis el Zambo, Moraíto, Andrés Peña, Carlos Grilo, El Lúa... and Diego Carrasco, who on the verge of dawn dropped by.
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Diego Carrasco and Miguel Poveda
(Photo Daniel Muñoz)
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The show is that simple. Miguel Poveda stages the 'adoption' made of him back in the nineties by a handful of 'juncales' on Calle Nueva. As is shown, he had come from dazzling in mining lands with those so stylized, touching manners of his. Levante. While that is happening in place x, in another place y, Luis el Zambo devotes himself to cante which he ages like wine. Bulerías to the beat. And after a while, a little bit por soleá. Andrés Peña illustrates it with some clean touches of baile. The spotlight shines upon Poveda once more. Malagueñas. Chicuelo, his colleague, on toque. And the abandolao reaches the ears of the people of Jerez, who add soniquete to it. The encounter is near. And it's unleashed by the austere moan of the martinete, of the toná. A face-off, but with deference. "... you can't sing any better than Luis el Zambo sings".
And then '¡Qué borrachera!', recorded at the end of 'Zaguán', is remembered. A round of Jerez-branded cantes, the soniquete urging them on. But the night is still young. And cantiñas, tientos-tangos, seguiriyas, bulerías-copla, little drops of festive-style baile and the necessary dose of tocaor genius by Moraíto . If Zambo's mike stops working, let it stop. The important thing is the essence, the enormity of his echo. Daybreak draws near. The party grows. A round of little kicks. And then Diego Carrasco comes knocking on the door, bringing the audience to its feet with his mere presence and singing-dancing 'Alfileres de colores' with Miguel Poveda. The magic which is so missed due to the absence of Joaquín Grilo finally appears. Fade out. Daylight now bursts in. El Zambo and Poveda remain there to finish the job. And then Miguel Candela would say, as journalist Miguel Mora recalls in an article in El País , "ladies and gentlemen, let's go to bed, since nothing is eternal".
Photo gallery, by Daniel Muñoz
Miguel Poveda, ‘Sin frontera’ (Jerez 2008)
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And tomorrow ...
· Manolo Sanlúcar · El Güito. Teatro Villamarta (9 p.m.)
· Mayte Bajo, 'Bocabajo'. Sala Compañía (7 p.m.)
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 Manolo Sanlúcar
(Photo Daniel Muñoz)
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Following two intense weeks of flamenco, Festival de Jerez 2008 reaches its end. The closing day first remembers that in its subheading Spanish dance also appears. And the one in charge of emphasizing it is going to be dancer Mayte Bajo, who will present her show 'Bocabajo' at the Sala Compañía. Shortly afterwards, the usual twin bill of maestros. On the one hand, Manolo Sanlúcar in concert, going back over his life and his work, sharing his soul. On the other hand, returning to the festival is the veteran Madrilenian bailaor El Güito , conversing with bailaora Ángela Españadero in a show entitled 'Dos generaciones'. The last midnight show features Peña Los Cernícalos, closing the series 'De peña en peña', whose group will display that other intimate way of savoring flamenco which is so enjoyed in the late nights of this festival. As El Zambo would say, "Is it already daytime?".
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Manolo Sanlúcar presents his autobiography, 'El alma compartida'
'El alma compartida'. The title of the concert which Manolo Sanlúcar offers to close the 12th Festival de Jerez coincides with that of the autobiography he has recently published. And as he explained at the round-table at San Ginés, it makes a reference to the similarities which the Sanlúcar-born guitarist finds between himself and his father. This resemblance is more pronounced "in the love of art in general", he affirmed to the media. That passion has been captured in his mastery of guitar, so that from the very first time he picked one up in his arms, he has plunged into this world with "absolute devotion". And he added that "I'm one of the few creators who works and fights to establish the avant-garde of flamenco guitar". In that sauntering he said he walked by the hand of Paco de Lucía until he reached a stretch "which goes beyond what we were allowed". Nevertheless, he defended evolution "without losing sight of the historical references that settle in our guts". Things being thus, the guitarist is split into two halves: that of the past and that of the avant-garde. And those two indispensable, intercommunicated worlds will be reflected in his music and in his words.
Further information
BOOK: Manolo Sanlúcar. El alma compartida
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Further information:
Festival
de Jerez 2008. Index of reviews, photos, videos
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about Festival de Jerez 2008: reviews, photos,
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Interview with Miguel Poveda, cantaor
Interview with Chicuelo, guitarist
Noches del Español 2007. Miguel Poveda, 'Sin Frontera'
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