Lebrija's Caracolá pays tribute to women in flamenco with the cante of Carmen Linares, Remedios Amaya and Inés Bacán

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The thirty-seventh edition of the Caracolá Lebrijana has gender. The traditional festival on the lower Guadalquivir to be celebrated on July 20th, 2002, will honor "women in flamenco". The lineup of artists brings together important singers such as Carmen Linares, Remedios Amaya, Inés Bacán and Marina Heredia.

The athletic field of Lebrija's San Francisco Convent will be the site of the thirty-seventh edition of the Caracolá Lebrijana with a specific objective in mind: to pay tribute to flamenco's women. The bulk of the program, which will take place the night of July 20th, 2002, is made of a variety of different female voices: veteran, young, festive, classic...

Marina Heredia (Photo: Anahí Cármody)

The singer from Jaén Carmen Linares, currently touring with her new record 'Un ramito de locura', is sharing the bill with the Seville singer Remedios Amaya who is also promoting her new record 'Sonsonete'. They will be joined by local singer Inés Bacán, sister of the late guitarist Pedro Bacán; the young Granada singer Marina Heredia and Juana Vargas. This string of voices will be accompanied on the guitar by Paco Cortés, Antonio Malena, El Bolita and Eugenio Iglesias. The evening will also include dancing... by women, with the Seville dancer Carmen Ledesma and María del Mar Carrasco.

This program contrasts with the diversity of last year's when the convent grounds was used for the first time and singers José Mercé, El Lebrijano, Curro Malena, Miguel Funi and Rocío Segura; guitarists Moraíto and Enrique de Melchor; and dancers El Junco and Hiniesta Cortés were some of the artists who performed. The festival managed to attract about three thousand people for flamenco and the snails which are served.

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