Seville’s Bienal de Flamenco and Las Minas Cante Festival share the 2011 Prize for Spreading Music

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Cartel del Festival del Cante de las Minas 2011 / Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla 2010

Seville’s Bienal de Flamenco and Las Minas Cante Festival share the 2011 Prize for Spreading Music. The declaration of flamenco as Heritage of Humanity has led Spain’s Academy of the Arts and Sciences of Music to devote the Music Awards to this revalued musical genre. Besides giving cantaora Carmen Linares the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’, the academy has decided to give the Prize for Spreading Music to two of the flamenco world’s greatest events: Seville’s Bienal de Flamenco and Las Minas Cante Festival. This double recognition will be celebrated in the setting of the fifteenth edition’s awards gala, which will be held on May 18th at the Teatro Arteria Coliseum in Madrid. Regarding Seville’s Bienal de Flamenco, the academy emphasizes that “flamenco’s international scope has been a constant in the festival’s work, which has materialized in the prestige and coverage this event has acquired within and outside of Spain”. About Las Minas Cante Festival, which has been held annually in La Unión (Murcia) for fifty years, it stresses that “it has become the most important competitive flamenco festival worldwide, luring both the press and public”.