Esperanza Fernández and Adela Campallo lead the benefit gala Flamencos de Sevilla por Japón

Flamenco-world.com, March 30th, 2011
Cover photo: Adela Campallo © Daniel Muñoz

International Red Cross and Red Crescent: Japan's earthquake and tsunami

Young Japanese flamenco artists and great figures of flamenco come together, in collaboration with the Biennial of Flamenco, to help the victims of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11th 2011, with a gala to be held on Wednesday 30th March at the Teatro Alameda in Seville. The program is headed by the singer Esperanza Fernández, accompanied on guitar by Miguel Ángel Cortés, and the dancer Adela Campallo who, with the singer Jeromo Segura and the guitarists Juan Campallo and David Vargas, “donates” the soleá of her show ‘Horizonte’.

Kaori, japanese bailaora

More collaborations of artists who, like them, have visited Japan many times to work, teach and make know flamenco, have been adding to the gala. At the moment, is confirmed the participation in a grand finale of Javier Barón, Pedro Sierra, Rafael Campallo, Pastora Galván, Ana Morales, Carmen Ledesma, José Galván, Marco Vargas, Enrique el Extremeño, Segundo Falcón and La Tobala, among others. But equally important is the participation of young Japanese artists based in the city of Seville as Eri Fukuhara, Junko Hagiwara, Kaori Taniguchi, Yuki Tawara, Keiko Ishikawa, Sachiko Nishiuchi Nanako Aramaki on dancing, Yumi Yamashita Masahiro Yamakawa on singing, and Eizo Tawara, Kentaro Tokunaga Tokunaga and Kojiro Kimura and Naoaki on guitar.

Invitations to attend the show may be collected two hours before the show at the theater. The audience collaboration will be made in the form of a voluntary donation of 5 euros that the organization will send to the bank account enabled by the Embassy of Japan in the Banco Sabadell Atlantic for Japan Red Cross, whose account number is 0081 0085 66 002 202 029.