Marina Heredia and Pepe Habichuela
open Seville’s 2008/2009 Flamenco Thursdays with
the premiere of ‘De Graná’
Joaquín Grilo, Tomatito, Dospormedio
and Carrete de Málaga are also in the lineup
Flamenco-world.com, October 2008
Marina
Heredia and Pepe
Habichuela, side by side. That’s how Seville’s
2008/2009 Flamenco Thursdays season opens on October 23rd,
with the premiere of the show ‘De Graná’
starring the Granada-born cantaora and guitarist. In total,
the bill includes twenty-five nights of live cante, baile,
toque and music taking place at Fundación Cajasol’s
headquarters in Seville. It will go on until May 21st,
when Dorantes closes it by presenting his new album in
concert.
Marina Heredia (Photo Daniel
Muñoz)
“I wanted to do a pure concert,
to go back to the roots. Without any adornments or tricks.
Where the vocals and guitar were the only stars”.
Marina Heredia takes a look back. And she does so accompanied
by a guitar of reference; that of veteran maestro Pepe
Habichuela. Together at Seville’s 2008/2009 Flamenco
Thursdays, they premiere a classical-style show which
they have come to call ‘De Graná’.
As the Granada-born cantaora explains, “I know it’s
risky, but I think I owe it to flamenco”.
Pepe Habichuela
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To her, ‘De Graná’
is “like opening my memory chest, going back to
what I’ve listened to since I was little in my hometown
of Albaicín and returning all that it has taught
me to it”. Soleares, alegrías and tangos
are just some of the styles she performs together with
Pepe Habichuela, which to the cantaora “is a luxury
and an honor”. In her view, the guitarist “is
one of the maestros who has best taught flamenco to the
youths of my generation. He’s from Granada, like
me. He knows the touches of our land better than anyone
and at the same time, he’s one of the most modern
flamencos I know”.
Once it has kicked things off with ‘De
Graná’, the series organized by Fundación
Cajasol at the Sala Joaquín Turina of its headquarters
in Seville will offer a total of twenty-five concerts
up until May 21st of next year. The offer covers every
facet of flamenco. Baile will be represented by artists
such as Joaquín
Grilo with the show ‘Leyenda personal’;
Dospormedio, a company directed by Rafael
Estévez and Nani Paños, which will premiere
‘Sonatas’; and Carrete de Málaga with
‘Evocación de El Perchel’, among others.
The weight of guitar is split up between
great figures such as Tomatito, veterans as international
as Paco Peña and rising youths like Daniel
Casares, presenting his album ‘Caballero’.
Aurora Vargas, José Valencia, Manuel Moneo and
Juan Villar are among the cantaores called upon in this
ninth edition of Seville’s flamenco series, which
will be closed by Dorantes with the presentation of what
will be his third solo album.
SEVILLE’S
2008/2009 FLAMENCO THURSDAYS
Fundación Cajasol, Sala Joaquín
Turina
Seville, October 23rd, 2008 to May 21st, 2009
(9 p.m.)
October 23rd, 2008
‘De Graná’, Marina
Heredia with Pepe
Habichuela
October 30th, 2008
‘Leyenda Personal’, Joaquín
Grilo
November 6th, 2008
‘Caballero’, Daniel
Casares Sexteto
November 13th, 2008
‘Sonatas’, Dospormedio Compañía:
Rafael
Estévez & Nani Paños
November 27th, 2008
Tomatito
in concert
December 4th, 2008
Antonio
el Pipa
December 11th, 2008
‘A compás’, Paco Peña
December 18th, 2008
‘Evocación de El Perchel’,
Carrete
de Málaga
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