Seville's Bienal offers a prelude of intimist cante
Chano Lobato and Fernando
Terremoto among the voices of the 'A Palo Seco' series
Flamenco-world.com
With the mood warming up thanks to the
series of free concerts 'Bienal va por barrios', Seville's megafestival gets down
to business with a new experiment: 'A Palo Seco'. The series of recitals scheduled
to take place between the 21st and the 30th of August, 2002, bringing the cante
of artists like Chano Lobato, Fernando Terremoto, Fernando de la Morena and Segundo
Falcón to the secluded patios and plazas of the capital's old town, without
the aid of amplification.
The Casa Palacio of the Delegación
Provincial de Turismo lends itself to the first of the recitals on Wednesday,
August 21st with Fernando de la Morena accompanied by Diego de Morao, and Tina
Pavón with Niño Elías on the guitar. Espiau built the traditional
Sevillian patio, within the heart of a typical regional-style building, at the
beginning of the twentieth century, for Seville's influential Medina family.
The patio of the Conservatorio Superior de Música
The following day, a change of scene. The
patio of the Conservatorio Superior de Música, a building which has served
as convent and Civil Guard headquarters, has prepared its two interior patios
for performances by Diego Clavel with Antonio Carrión, and Melchora Ortega
with Fernando Moreno. This building, one of the most recently restored landmarks
of the municipal project, will again fill with the sounds of cante on August 28th
with Segundo Falcón and Paco Jarana accompanying, and Laura Vital with
Eduardo Rebollar. On August 23 La Casa del Moro, a government building from the
era of the Real Alcázar and currently home of the Fundación Blas
Infante, receives recitals by Jesús Heredia accompanied by Manolito Herrera,
and David Lagos with El Bolita.
On August 29th the Mudéjar Pavillion
of the 1929 Exposición Iberoamericana, now the Museo de Artes Costumbres
Populares, will offer its historical architectural design, the work of Aníbal
González, to the singer from Cádiz Chano Lobato accompanied on the
guitar by Niño Elías, and Curro de Utrera with Calderito.
'A Palo Seco' finishes off on August
30th in the patio of the Fundición Real Casa de la Moneda, home of the
organization of Seville's Bienal de Flamenco. Within this urban complex of paramilitary
architecture built by the Borbons, Fernando Terremoto with Antonio Higuero on
the guitar, and Julián Estrada with Manuel Silveria will leave their echoes.
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