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Monday, August 14th.
XV Festival de Cante de Las Minas. La Union.
Tirititrans
Carmen Linares
"A la puerta Federico llama" (Federico knocks on the door), was the
opening line of this ‘Locura’ (Folly).
He tells us, and he is right, that in flamenco there should not be any formal
corrections made.
Among the many mystical presentations, Sanlucar spoke of "a piece that
is not based on flamenco" which was full of flamenco.
Manolo Sanlúcar
He said this of ‘Carta a doña Rosita’ (Letter to Miss Rosita) and he
messed up: "Como si Federico me la dictara" (As if Federico dictated
it to me).
The Muñoz Halcon family (Manolo Sanlucar, Isidro Muñoz, Jose
Manuel Evora) can see from their towers and from their porch another myth of domestic
flamenco being formed.
"Why eat the roots when the mature fruit is so tasty?" (Manuel Barrios
Casares on those who go against postmodernism).
Luis Clemente
Translation: Pekka Odriozola
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