From 23 to 25 June, the Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo is organising a festival with three nights of open-air concerts dedicated to Sephardic music, Andalusian rhythms and flamenco, with three great protagonists: Ana Alcaide, Imán Kandoussi and Rocío Márquez.
This festival has a vocation of continuity and is organised by the foundation with the Andalusian Agency of Cultural Institutions of the Department of Culture and Historical Heritage of the Andalusian Regional Government, with the collaboration of the 'la Caixa' Foundation. The aim of this event is to give value to the important musical legacy that the coexistence of different cultures of the Mediterranean represents for our community. And more specifically, the relevance of the Sephardic and Andalusian heritage in Andalusian culture.
In this sense, this initiative is linked to the Festival de las Andalucías Atlánticas held every year in the Moroccan city of Essaouira, with strong support from the Junta de Andalucía (through the Fundación Tres Culturas) for almost two decades. In fact, at the 2019 edition of this meeting, the Regional Minister of Culture and patron of the Foundation, Patricia del Pozo, expressed the Andalusian government's commitment to the promotion of a possible candidacy of Andalusian music as Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Now, the Festival Tres Culturas goes a step further by bringing together on the same stage, albeit on different days, three important exponents of Sephardic, Andalusian and Flamenco music.
Ana AlcaideThe first to perform on the 23rd, she is an instrumentalist, singer and composer who carries out research into ancient traditions and cultures. Pioneer and disseminator of the nyckelharpa (Swedish instrument) in Spain, she began writing and producing her own songs, adding compositions and adapting her instrument to ancestral melodies that have travelled around the Mediterranean and originated in medieval Spain.
Kandoussi Magnetwho will perform on the 24th, is originally from Tetouan (Morocco). At the age of 10, she began studying solfège and Arabic oud at the Tetouan Conservatory of Music, and at 15 she studied performance techniques with great masters such as Amin el Akrami and Hicham Zoubairi. At the end of 2003, he came to Spain to complete his university studies and develop other musical styles by fusing them with traditional Arab music, especially Andalusian music, making possible a dialogue between music belonging to the area of medieval al-Andalus.
For its part, Rocío Márquez (who will close the festival on the 25th) is a benchmark of today's flamenco. Born in Huelva in 1985, she has been defined by the press as "the voice of the new generation of flamenco singing" and her national and international projection is unstoppable. Her discography combines her great love for flamenco tradition with her eagerness to explore the limits of that same tradition by experimenting with melodies, instrumentation, arrangements and lyrics.
More information and ticket sales for each concert:
Wednesday 23 June, Ana Alcaide
Thursday 24 June, Imam Kandoussi
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