'Flamenco Encounters' back up-and-coming artists from Granada

Carmen Jiménez, November 2003

Under the slogan 'Flamenco Encounters', the 4th Granada Fall Festival arrives this year loaded with good flamenco proposals. José Mercé, Antonio Canales, Chocolate and Chano Lobato, with their performances, will wrap up young Granada-born artists. To do so, the festival has three venues: Isabella the Catholic Municipal Theater, where the big performances are held; La Peña de la Platería, destined to small-format recitals with a late-night schedule; and Zaidín Municipal Theater. The series will take place from December 4th to 8th, 2003.

Antonio Canales (Photo: Daniel Muñoz)

Encuentros flamencos" es el lema de este festival que reúne en la ciudad de granada Jerez-born cantaor José Mercé will open the 'Flamenco Encounters' of the fourth edition of Granada's Fall Festival, where an extensive range of flamenco performances will consolidate another flamenco reference in the city of the Alhambra. This first show is scheduled for the night of December 4th, when Mercé will delight his audience with a recital in which he will be accompanied by Moraíto on the guitar.

Starring the following night will be guitarists Emilio Maya and Rafael Santiago, and cantaores Jaime Heredia 'El Parrón', Juan A. Tirado, Víctor 'El Charico', Antonio Campos and Antonio Amador, all of them members of the group 'Los Faraones', who will present the recital 'Neo-Zambra'.

The program will continue the next day with guitarist Dieguito de Morón, Chano Lobato accompanied by Fernando Moreno, cantaor El Chocolate with Antonio Carrión and young Granada-born Fuensanta la Moneta, winner of the last flamenco festival of La Unión (Murcia). The night of the 7th, Catalan cantaor Miguel Poveda will perform, accompanied by guitarist Chicuelo. The festival's close will be in the hands of two great baile artists: the also Granada-born Manolete and bailaor Antonio Canales, who will also teach an open course at the Queen Sofía Professional Dance Conservatory from December 1st to 5th.

Related performances

Parallel to these performances, Zaidín Municipal Theater will welcome another series of flamenco performances. Henry Vicent and friends have a date there on the 5th; the group Cañadú will do so one day later. Guitarist David Carmona will do so the next day. Moreover, the festival again bets on the now traditional late-night shows at the peña 'La Platería', which will take place on the 6th, with Conchi Maya; and on the 7th with Málaga-born cantaora 'La Genara' and Granada-born Juan Pinilla.

Miguel Poveda (Photo: Daniel Muñoz)

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