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FESTIVAL DE JEREZ 2009. GERARDO NÚÑEZ
ENSEMBLE
“And Gerardo Núñez,
from Jerez de la Frontera”
Silvia Calado. Jerez, March 2nd, 2009
‘Gerardo Núñez
Ensemble’. Gerardo Núñez:
guitar, music. Perico Sambeat: sax, flute. Mariano Díaz:
piano. Manuel Valencia: second guitar. Pablo Martín:
contrabass. Marc Miralta: drums. Cepillo: box drum.
Jesús Méndez: cante. Carmen Cortés:
baile. 13th Festival de Jerez. Bodega Los Apóstoles.
Jerez (Cádiz, Spain), March 2nd, 2009. 9 p.m.
Gerardo Núñez
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No matter where he is in the world,
Gerardo
Núñez has the custom of presenting
each member of his ensemble, pointing out their respective
city of origin. Pablo Martín, from Vitoria. Perico
Sambeat, from Valencia. Mariano Díaz, from Buenos
Aires. And last night, after a few years, it could once
again be said “Gerardo Núñez, from
Jerez de la Frontera”… in Jerez de la Frontera.
And more specifically, at the outstanding Bodega de
Los Apóstoles, where he had already performed
in a trio format in 2005.
Although the essence of the concert
is the same as back then, in this new appearance at
Festival de Jerez he delves deeper into the universality
of his music, situating flamenco as a host for jazz.
Thus, he leads a band with which he revisits places
so very well-known from his repertoire … although
taking other routes; the ones defined by the group in
the course of a conversation of mutual understanding.
Guitars-piano-contrabass-percussion-clapping-contrabass-sax-flute-baile.
The show has so much experience that, in time, it turns
out to be overwhelmingly solid, both in performance
as in energy. They already know everything that works
and how it has to work in order to give the public,
the better the more novice it is, a pleasant, dynamic,
approachable experience.
Cepillo and Marc
Miralta
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All of it, without sacrificing in the
least the concert’s quality, in general and specifically,
the whole and each part. And above all, the lead guitar,
fuller in form than in substance, in that it is beginning
to need a certain renewal in the repertoire and perhaps
a greater variety in rhythm, since nearly the entire
concert straddled between the bulería and the
soleá. Nevertheless, one always enjoys listening
to the thousand and one lives of scores such as ‘Calima’,
‘Templo del Lucero’ and the final rumba
‘La Habana a oscuras’. Meanwhile, for the
second time in the same stay and in a matter of three
days’ time, the superb ‘alianda’ by
Jesús
Méndez was heard once again, a voice which
is growing by leaps and bounds and which, precisely,
Gerardo Núñez discovered in Jerez to take
to the world, taking advantage of the road which he
has wrought with so much perseverance with that hoe
of his which is flamenco guitar.
José
Galván, ‘Maestría’
Sala Compañía
midnight
Veteran
Sevillian bailaor José Galván,
father of siblings Israel and Pastora, recalled
at the Sala Compañía the style
in fashion over thirty years ago at the
tablaos in Seville. It was then that he
hung up his boots and devoted himself entirely
to teaching. Photo: Daniel Muñoz
Further information
2009
Nîmes Flamenco Festival. Tribute
to José Galván
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Flamenco
Nursery
Flamenco
Nursery
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Children
premiere as stars at Festival de Jerez.
In this thirteenth edition, the main
novelty is the opening of the ‘Flamenco
Nursery’, in collaboration with
Guardería El Centro. Around thirty
boys and girls, the children of students
and instructors of the dance courses,
and of workers at the theater, have
registered in this nursery in which
different activities related to flamenco
have been scheduled. By means of manual
crafts and games based on music, children
from 2 to 10 years of age of different
nationalities are getting to know the
instruments, rhythms and wardrobe of
this artform so bound to the city of
Jerez.
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And
tomorrow …
• Celia
Morales/ Rocío Márquez. Palacio
de Villavicencio, 7 p.m.
• María Pagés, ‘Autorretrato’.
Teatro Villamarta, 9 p.m.
• Rosario Toledo, ‘Del primer
paso’. Sala Compañía,
midnight
Women
are the absolute stars of the fifth day of
Festival de Jerez 2009. María
Pagés brings to the Teatro Villamarta
her latest show ‘Autorretrato’,
which reflects “a moment in my life
and in my career when I needed to stop and
do a sort of self-analysis”. The show,
which started from an assignment by the Baryshnikov
Arts Center in New York, is split “into
four spaces where my life passes: the studio,
home, the dressing room and the stage”.
At midnight at Sala Compañía,
Cádiz-born bailaora Rosario
Toledo presents ‘Del primer paso’
which goes from its original street version
to a theater format here. And to do so, the
troupe, besides cantaor David Palomar, is
joined by guitarist Daniel Méndez.
The bailaora explains that it has two parts:
“The first one is a memory of my origins
in Spanish classical and the second one is
old-time flamenco”. And to that end,
she has been inspired by dance figures such
as Isadora Duncan, Argentina and Carmen Amaya.
But the
shows will already begin in the evening at
the Palacio de Villavicencio, with a twin
bill. Guitarist Celia Morales begins a series
devoted to female tocaoras, “with a
repertoire 85% my own, plus a rondeña
inspired by Ramón Montoya”. Huelva-born
cantaora Rocío Márquez, winner
of the Lámpara Minera 2009 Award, offers
“a varied recital, with touches of many
short cantes, among them, the malagueña
de Chacón, bulerías, fandangos
de Huelva, levante and tonás”.
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CD. Gerardo Núñez,
'Andando el tiempo'
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CD. Pablo Martín, 'Doméstica'
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CD.
Jesús Méndez, 'Jerez sin fronteras'
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Gerardo Núñez
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