Aunque merece la pena visitar Cartagena en cualquier momento del año, os esperamos en la segunda quincena de septiembre para disfrutar de las Fiestas de Carthagineses y Romanos.

Os garantizamos una lección de historia viva y una gran diversión!

Cartagena se siente orgullosa de su pasado milenario y sus habitantes son el motor de una festividad anual que es única en España: las Fiestas de Carthagineses y Romanos.

Durante 10 días, en la última quincena de septiembre, más de cuatro mil cartageneros participan en estas Fiestas que comenzaron en 1990 para revivir los hechos de la Segunda Guerra Púnica de hace más de 2.200 años, tomando como punto de apoyo la historia y la arqueología de Cartagena, y que cada año se reinventan para ganar más esplendor.

Campamento Festero

El campamento se convierte en una ciudadela ambientada en la Antigüedad, donde el arte y los símbolos de Grecia, Fenicia, Iberia, Roma y Carthago presiden grandes decoraciones. En este espacio se puede compartir mesa y mantel con el mismísimo general Escipión o comer tarta de boda con el general Aníbal.

Parte del éxito de las fiestas se debe, sin duda, al campamento festero que es un recinto de enormes proporciones, situado en un predio al lado del estadio Carthagonova, donde cada uno de los 50 grupos que forman las tropas carthaginesas y las legiones romanas, decora una parcela, cuya portada se ajusta al rigor histórico, instalando en ella un bar, con entrada libre y abierto al público, donde se pueden degustar tapas y platos típicos de la gastronomía de la comarca. Durante los diez días de Fiestas, hay actividad en el campamento durante el día y la noche. Al mediodía, el bus turístico del consorcio Cartagena Puerto de Culturas, modifica su recorrido durante las Fiestas para acercar a los visitantes al campamento festero. Una vez allí, no sólo pueden recorrerlo para observar las magníficas fachadas de los distintos grupos sino que, además, pueden comer una típica tapa de la comarca con un quinto de cerveza por 1.50 euros, en el Campamento de Día. En las Fiestas del año 2012, los visitantes consumieron más de 40 mil tapas en el Campamento de Día, lo que indica el éxito que ha tenido esta oferta que se realiza desde hace 3 años. En la noche, los grupos carthagineses y romanos realizan cientos de actos dentro de su parcela y en las calles del campamento que se relacionan con la historia que representan y están abiertos a la participación del público, en forma gratuita. Junto al campamento festero se instala una feria de atracciones y un mercado de época en el que se pueden comprar productos artesanales.

El campamento festero posee una zona de servicios y además dispone de un sector con Policía Nacional y Local y otro de Protección Civil. La Federación de Tropas y Legiones dispone de una carpa multisusos de protocolo dentro del recinto en la que se realizan actividades promocionales, culturales y solidarias.

Cartagineses y Romanos 2019

Although it is worth visiting Cartagena at any time of the year, we wait for you in the second half of September to enjoy the Fiestas de Carthagineses y Romanos.

We guarantee you a live history lesson and great fun!

Cartagena is proud of its millenary past and its inhabitants are the engine of an annual holiday that is unique in Spain: the Fiestas de Carthagineses y Romanos.

For 10 days, in the last fortnight of September, more than four thousand Cartagena participated in these Festivities that began in 1990 to revive the events of the Second Punic War of more than 2,200 years ago, taking as a foothold the history and archeology from Cartagena, and that every year they reinvent themselves to gain more splendor.

During the days of the Fiesta, all the heroic events that occurred in the period that begins around the year 227 before our era are revived, with the founding of Qart Hadasht by Asdrúbal Janto El Hermoso and they end in the year 209 B.C. with the battle and the subsequent conquest of the city by the Roman legions under the command of General Publio Cornelio Escipión, creating a magical atmosphere in which the Cartagena and tourists who visit the city enjoy. The Official Acts program includes different daily theatrical performances that allow visitors to relive history in the majestic stages of the city, attending, among others, the foundation of Qart Hadasht, the destruction of Sagunto, the session of the Roman Senate, the Weddings of Hannibal and Himilce, the Oracle of Tanit, the march of Hannibal to Rome, the landing of the Roman army, the parades of troops and legions and the Battle for the conquest of Qart-Hadast. During the Festivities, visitors and Cartagena travel through the city participating in the various recreational activities organized by the Carthaginian and Roman sides, and accompany the Carthaginian troops and Roman legions that land in the port and parade to the festive camp that is installs in the city, near the Carthagonova football stadium, and is the site chosen by visitors to continue the party every night, visiting the handicraft market and enjoying the wide variety of specialties of the Cartagena cuisine offered in Its bars and restaurants. In the camp, the party people offer the public more than one hundred free activities, among which we can highlight the Aspar Tests with recreational activities for children offered by the Carthaginian Council and the Latin Fair with representations and typical Roman meals offered by the Roman Senate . During the Holidays, the tourist bus modifies its route and takes visitors to the site to enjoy free cultural activities and delight the palate with the gastronomic delights of the Day Camp.

Festero Camp

The camp becomes a citadel set in Antiquity, where the art and symbols of Greece, Phenicia, Iberia, Rome and Carthago preside over great decorations. In this space you can share a table and tablecloth with the very general Scipio or eat a wedding cake with General Anibal.

Part of the success of the festivities is undoubtedly due to the festive camp, which is an enclosure of enormous proportions, located on a site next to the Carthagonova stadium, where each of the 50 groups that make up the Carthaginian troops and the Roman legions, decorate a plot, whose cover fits the historical rigor, installing a bar, with free entry and open to the public, where you can taste tapas and typical dishes of the region’s cuisine. During the ten days of Holidays, there is activity in the camp during the day and night. At noon, the tourist bus of the Cartagena Puerto de Culturas consortium modifies its route during the Fiestas to bring visitors closer to the festive camp. Once there, they can not only travel it to observe the magnificent facades of the different groups but also, they can eat a typical cap of the region with a fifth of beer for 1.50 euros, at the Day Camp. 2012, the visitors consumed more than 40 thousand tapas in the Day Camp, which indicates the success of this offer that has been made for 3 years. At night, the Carthaginian and Roman groups perform hundreds of acts within their plot and in the streets of the camp that relate to the history they represent and are open to public participation, free of charge. Next to the festive camp, an amusement fair and a vintage market are installed where you can buy handmade products.

The festive camp has a service area and also has a sector with National and Local Police and another Civil Protection. The Federation of Troops and Legions has a multi-purpose protocol tent inside the premises where promotional, cultural and solidarity activities are carried out.

Al abrigo de las cinco colinas que formaban el perímetro de la antigua ciudad, Cartagena ha sido desde siempre un lugar de mestizaje para culturas y civilizaciones de todo el Mediterráneo y un enclave estratégico en el litoral de la Región de Murcia. Su patrimonio arqueológico es único y ofrece a través de los restos de la muralla Púnica o los vestigios romanos, paleocristianos y bizantinos, un viaje a lo largo de los siglos. Además, con un clima privilegiado, el municipio de Cartagena se destaca por sus paisajes entre mar y montañas, entre espacios naturales y algunas de las mejores playas del litoral mediterráneo español.

Entre los artistas invitados podemos destacar :

PONGO (PORTUGAL-ANGOLA)

Pongo es la diva del kuduro progresivo y mestizo. Diez años después de dar voz a Kalemba (Wegue Wegue), la ex vocalista de los Buraka Sound System volvió en 2018 con un trabajo en solitario. Encarna la renovación del kuduro, mezclando sus raíces africanas con el pop y la música electrónica. Su actuación en el siempre prestigioso y novedo Transmusicales de Rennes fue considerada como una de las mejores del festival la pasada edición. La diva del kuduro está de vuelta, y esta vez, todo apunta que para quedarse.

SALIF KEITA (MALÍ) PREMIO LA MAR DE MÚSICAS 2019

Salif Keita, la voz dorada de África, es el premio La Mar de Músicas 2019. El artista de Malí comunicaba hace unos meses que iba a retirarse al menos de los estudios de grabación, al mismo tiempo que lanzaba el que va a ser su último trabajo “Un Autre Blanc”, un canto a la diferencia de quien ha transformado la música del continente africano a través de sus discos. La Mar de Músicas, festival que lo ha acogido a lo largo de toda su carrera, le va a entregar este año su galardón por “haber superado todo tipo de prejuicios dentro y fuera de África en su defensa de la población con albinismo y de quienes cantan sin pertenecer al casta griot, y por la inspiración de su poderosa voz y haber sabido mezclar la profunda tradición de su región con los sonidos globales”. Keita recogerá el premio La Mar de Músicas 2019 el mismo día que ofrecerá un concierto en el festival de Cartagena.

El premio La Mar de Músicas que este año recibirá Salif Keita ya ha sido recogido en otras ediciones por Totó la Momposina, Oumou Sangaré, Susana Baca, Cheick Lô, Pablo Milanés, Omara Portuondo y Gino Paoli.

MARIZA (PORTUGAL)

Mariza podría haber sido la protagonista del genial libro de Dulce María Cardoso “El retorno”. Al igual que los protagonista del libro, publicado por la editorial La Umbría y la Solana, Mariza junto a su familia tuvo que abandonar Mozambique con la conquista de la independencia a la antigua colonia portuguesa. Y tuvieron que hacerlo sin mirar para atrás, dejando casa, amigos y con todo aquello que cupiese en una maleta.  “Llegamos a Lisboa sin nada y sin nadie que nos quisiera. Nos metimos en el barrio de la Morería en una casa donde entraba el agua cuando llovía. Nadie nos quería. No había dinero, no había trabajo. Mi mamá era negra; mi papá, rubio, y yo, así, con este colorcito” declaraba hace unos años en una entrevista para el País. Aquella niña se ha hecho mayor y ahora todos la quieren, todos la miran. Basta decir Mariza y se abren los teatros del mundo, de la Ópera de Sídney al Royal Albert Hall, y sus taquillas cuelgan el “todo vendido”. Maria dos Reis Nunes, Mariza, carga en estos momentos con la responsabilidad de ser la máxima representante de la cultura portuguesa en el mundo. La mayor fadista desde Amália Rodrigues; nadie se atrevería a discutírselo a estas alturas. Mucha gente ha querido conocer la música, la lengua, la cultura portuguesa, tras conocer su música. Ya no es aquella renovadora del fado que hace veinte años agitó la afición portuguesa con su novedoso acercamiento al género. Es la más internacional de las vocalistas de su país gracias a su entregada manera de estar sobre el escenario y a su curiosidad por adentrarse en otras parcelas vocales más internacionales. La embajadora de la UNESCO para la preservación del fado tradicional y Premio Luso-Español de Arte y Cultura 2018 viene a La Mar de Músicas, festival que la ha acogido a lo largo de sus años de carrera, para presentar su último disco, titulado, simplemente Mariza.

DEAD COMBO (PORTUGAL)

Como si fueran personajes salidos de una novela de Charles Bukowski, como si Fernando Pessoa se diera la mano con Tom Waits… Así se las gastan los portugueses Dead Combo, es decir, Pedro Gonçalves y Tó Trips. La Lisboa mestiza los vio nacer y crecer. Llevan en el alma la noche de la fusión y en su nuevo disco, «Odeon Hotel», dan rienda suelta a una amalgama sin prejuicios, pues caben en ella rastros de Morriocone, de Ry Cooder, de jazz, de blues y hasta de post-rock, siempre con las piezas instrumentales por bandera. Sin letras ni palabras, el dúo suena a la claridad del Tejo, a Lisboa, a Portugal  o al Mediterráneo; también a África o al desierto de Estados Unidos. Para poder plasmar estos paisajes es necesario encontrar un sonido: en este caso una guitarra y un contrabajo con cierto bagaje de rock’n’roll y de años dedicados a la música atravesando continentes, recogiendo el fado. Pedro Gonçalves y Tó Trips son dos personajes: un gangster y un sepulturero que salen de un cómic para hacer conciertos poderosos y muy impactantes visualmente. Su música es uno de los capítulos más hermosos y singulares nacidos en Portugal en la última década.

ANA MOURA (PORTUGAL)

Nacida en la portuguesa localidad de Santarem, Ana Moura es una de las grandes voces del fado; la diva del fado contemporáneo. La historia reciente del género no se puede escribir sin su nombre. Ella ha bebido de las fuentes de Amália Rodrigues, su gran referencia espiritual, pero si algo la caracteriza es cómo transforma instantáneamente cualquier melodía a la que presta su voz y la convierte en fado. Es una chispa inmediata, una explosión emocional, dirigida implacablemente al corazón del oyente. Con más de 300.000 discos vendidos, más de una decena de galardones entre los que destacan dos Globos de Oro, dos premios Amália, su historia, quizá, no se podría contar de la misma manera si no hubiesen aparecido en su vida los Rolling Stone, y aún menos si Prince no la hubiese escuchado en un local parisino. Los primeros la llamaron para que colaborase con ellos en un par de conciertos y el segundo se quedó tan ensimismado con su voz y con su personalidad que fue quien le dio el empujón para fusionar el jazz con el fado. Ha colaborado también con Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil o Herbie Hancock. Es la artista portuguesa con una de las carreras más pujantes de la actualidad.

MARIA DE MEDEIROS & LEGENDARY TIGERMAN (PORTUGAL)

La faceta más reconocida internacionalmente de María de Medeiros es la de actriz. Pero Medeiros estará en La Mar de Músicas para mostrar otras caras de su frenética actividad creativa: la de cantante y la de directora, en este caso de documentales. La Mar de Cine le hará un hueco especial en esta edición, al igual que lo hace la sección musical del festival que la acogerá junto al poeta y músico Paulo Furtado, el rockero de Coimbra que está detrás de la marca Legendary Tigerman. Considerada en la actualidad como la actriz portuguesa con mayor proyección internacional, Madeiros es afrancesada, políglota, risueña y nunca pierde su expresión de dulce niña traviesa. Habla seis lenguas y ha hecho casi de todo: actriz de cine (Henry y June, Pulp fiction, Huevos de oro y otras 60 películas más), pero también directora (Capitanes de Abril, y varios títulos más de ficción y documentales), teatro, musicales y, últimamente cantante, letrista y compositora. “Soy una actriz que canta y lo hago con un pie en el teatro y otro en la música, me gusta mucho mezclar las dos cosas” suele decir cuando le preguntan por la disciplina por la que se siente más atraída. Su música como ella es ecléctica, interpreta fados, salsa, bossanova, flamenco, jazz… La actriz portuguesa que se forjó trabajando con cineastas tan imprescindibles en la historia del cine como Manoel de Oliveira o Quentin Tarantino, o como Bigas Luna en el caso del cine español viene a Cartagena junto al singular músico portugués Legendary Tigerman.

ESTRELLA MORENTE (ESPAÑA)

Estrella Morente ha enarbolado desde los inicios de su carrera la libertad. Libertad personal y libertad artística, que ha llevado a la cantaora por territorios muy diferentes, alejados del flamenco: el tango, la música clásica, el jazz, la bossanova… estilos que ha coloreado siempre con su estilo y su voz. Ahora vuelve a viajar, y lo hace hacia el mundo de la copla. Así, «Copla», se titula precisamente su nuevo trabajo discográfico, el primero individual que publica en siete años. Un disco en el que empezó a trabajar mucho antes junto a su padre, el enorme Enrique Morente, y que ahora ella dedica a su abuela Rosario. Un álbum en el que afronta el reto de interpretar canciones tan icónicas como Yo soy esa, ¡Ay pena, penita! o Suspiros de España, del maestro Maestro Álvarez Alonso, que fue compuesta en nuestra ciudad, Cartagena. Estrella asegura haberse enamorado del género y de sus principales intérpretes, Lola Flores, Imperio Argentina, Concha Piquer o Juana Reina. En su reivindicación del género popular por excelencia en nuestro país estará acompañada por una banda de música, con los vientos y las percusiones como protagonistas, a la más pura tradición española. Y aunque en el disco, se aleja de esas raíces flamencas que tanto la definen, en su directo, la artista, la cantante de flamenco más importante de nuestro país, no dejará pasar por alto su apellido.

KIKI MORENTE (ESPAÑA )

El menor de los Morente, Kiki, será el encargado de abrir la jornada de clausura de La Mar de Músicas, que este año está dedicada a una saga, la suya, los Morente. Una noche especial en la que actuarán además sus hermanas mayores Soleá y Estrella, también productora de su disco, Albayzín. Pertenecientes a la aristocracia del flamenco, los hijos de Enrique Morente y la bailaora Aurora Carbonell “La Pelota” han actuado ya en La Mar de Músicas en solitario o acompañando a su padre, en las ocasiones que éste cantó en Cartagena. Vienen ahora cada uno a presentarnos su proyecto en solitario. Kiki Morente lo hará con Albayzín, con el que ha empezado una carrera con mucho trabajo y humildad, dos de las enseñanzas que le dejó su padre, que se ganó la vida como zapatero o como aprendiz de platero antes de ser figura del cante. El disco que lo trae a Cartagena recupera palos y sonoridades que tanto gustaban a su padre, como son bulerías, fandangos, soleás, sevillanas, polos y tarantos.  El maestro le dijo a su hijo “La casa se tiene que empezar por los cimientos, beber de los clásicos para aprender y encontrar tu propio camino”. La impronta académica de Morente padre se aprecia en el álbum, al igual que se apreciaba en Mi cante y un poema (2001), el meteorito con que su hermana mayor, Estrella Morente, irrumpió en el panorama discográfico. La saga continúa.

SOLEÁ MORENTE (ESPAÑA)

Con ese nombre y ese apellido, ya se le adivina como diferente. ¿Rockera? ¿Flamenca? Como artista Solea Morente ha nacido en la fusión, y musicalmente es tanto una cosa como la otra. Nacida en Madrid pero criada en Granada, Soleá comenzó colaborando con los miembros de su familia antes de emprender su carrera como solista. La cantante ayudó a su padre y su hermana con varios de sus trabajos hasta que en 2015 publicó su primer álbum Tendrá Que Haber Un Camino. En el disco se incluyeron dos composiciones póstumas de Enrique Morente. Ole lorelei, el nuevo disco de la cantante, ha sido producido por Alonso Díaz, del grupo Napoleón Solo, y ha dado como resultado una perfecta combinación entre pop  y flamenco, que ya presentó el año pasado en La Mar de Músicas. Viene a mostrar sus creaciones sin prejuicios.

KYEKYEKU & GHANALOGUE HIGHLIFE (GHANA)

El maestro de la guitarra Kyekyeku, como lo califica la propia CNN África Voices, es un músico ghanés que profesa pasión tanto por la acústica como la eléctrica, con un intrincado groove percusivo y exuberantes trompetas, a caballo entre el folk y los ritmos urbanos. Kyekyeku forma parte de una generación de músicos ghaneses que combinan las tradiciones musicales de las raíces del Palmwine (un estilo del folclore ghanés), Highlife y Afrobeat. Kyekyeku y Ghanalogue Highlife es una celebración de la herencia musical de la Ghana de una era pasada y también un saludo a la evolución de las tendencias modernas con letras que recuerdan a las canciones recreativas de las aldeas, las canciones de protesta, la poesía de amor y la antigua espiritualidad africana.

Para más información sobre el festival https://lamardemusicas.cartagena.es/gestion/documentos/33513.pdf

The sea of music 2019

Cartagena, city of the La Mar de Músicas Festival XXV Edition.

La Mar de Músicas announces that Portugal will be the guest country of its 25th edition, which will be held from July 19 to 27, 2019. The organization of the festival is working on the specials of music, film, art and literature that will make Cartagena host one of the largest cultural landings that has been made in Spain from the neighboring country.

Sheltered by the five hills that formed the perimeter of the ancient city, Cartagena has always been a place of miscegenation for cultures and civilizations throughout the Mediterranean and a strategic enclave on the coast of the Region of Murcia. Its archaeological heritage is unique and offers through the remains of the Punic wall or the Roman, Paleo-Christian and Byzantine remains, a journey through the centuries. In addition, with a privileged climate, the municipality of Cartagena is known for its landscapes between sea and mountains, between natural areas and some of the best beaches of the Spanish Mediterranean coast.

Among the invited artists we can highlight:

PONGO (PORTUGAL-ANGOLA)

Pongo is the diva of the progressive and mestizo kuduro. Ten years after giving voice to Kalemba (Wegue Wegue), the ex-vocalist of the Buraka Sound System returned in 2018 with a solo work. It embodies the renewal of kuduro, mixing its African roots with pop and electronic music. His performance in the always prestigious and innovative Transmusicales de Rennes was considered one of the best of the festival last year. The diva of the kuduro is back, and this time, everything points to stay.

SALIF KEITA (MALÍ) PREMIO LA MAR DE MÚSICAS 2019

Salif Keita, the golden voice of Africa, is the La Mar de Músicas 2019 award. The artist from Mali announced a few months ago that he was going to retire at least from the recording studios, at the same time that he was releasing what is going to be his last work “Un Autre Blanc”, a song to the difference of those who have transformed the music of the African continent through their albums. La Mar de Músicas, a festival that has welcomed him throughout his career, will be presenting his award this year for “having overcome all kinds of prejudices inside and outside of Africa in his defense of the population with albinism and of those who they sing without belonging to the griot caste, and through the inspiration of their powerful voice and having managed to mix the deep tradition of their region with the global sounds “. Keita will collect the La Mar de Músicas 2019 award on the same day he will offer a concert at the Cartagena festival.

The La Mar de Músicas award that Salif Keita will receive this year has already been collected in other editions by Totó la Momposina, Oumou Sangaré, Susana Baca, Cheick Lô, Pablo Milanés, Omara Portuondo and Gino Paoli.

MARIZA (PORTUGAL)

Mariza could have been the protagonist of Dulce María Cardoso’s great book “El retorno”. Like the protagonists of the book, published by the publisher La Umbría and La Solana, Mariza and her family had to leave Mozambique with the conquest of independence to the old Portuguese colony. And they had to do it without looking back, leaving home, friends and everything that fit in a suitcase. “We arrived in Lisbon with nothing and no one to love us. We got into the neighborhood of Morería in a house where the water came in when it rained. Nobody loved us. There was no money, there was no work. My mom was black; my dad, blond, and me, like that, with this little color “he declared a few years ago in an interview for the Country. That girl has grown older and now everyone wants her, everyone looks at her. It’s enough to say Mariza and the world’s theaters are opened, from the Sydney Opera House to the Royal Albert Hall, and its ticket offices hang the “all sold”. Maria dos Reis Nunes, Mariza, currently has the responsibility of being the maximum representative of Portuguese culture in the world. The greatest fadist since Amália Rodrigues; no one would dare discuss it at this point. Many people have wanted to know the music, the language, the Portuguese culture, after knowing their music. She is no longer the fado renovator who stirred the Portuguese fans twenty years ago with her novel approach to the genre. She is the most international vocalist in her country thanks to her dedicated way of being on stage and her curiosity to enter other more international vocal plots. The UNESCO ambassador for the preservation of traditional fado and Luso-Spanish Prize for Art and Culture 2018 comes to La Mar de Músicas, a festival that has welcomed her throughout her career to present her latest album, entitled, simply Mariza.

DEAD COMBO (PORTUGAL)

As if they were characters from a novel by Charles Bukowski, as if Fernando Pessoa was shaking hands with Tom Waits … That’s how the Portuguese Dead Combo spend them, that is, Pedro Gonçalves and Tó Trips. The mestiza Lisbon saw them born and grow. They carry in their soul the night of the fusion and in their new album, “Odeon Hotel”, they give free rein to an amalgam without prejudices, because they fit in it traces of Morriocone, Ry Cooder, jazz, blues and even post -rock, always with the instrumental pieces per flag. Without lyrics or words, the duo sounds like the clarity of the Tejo, Lisbon, Portugal or the Mediterranean; also to Africa or the desert of the United States. To be able to capture these landscapes it is necessary to find a sound: in this case a guitar and a contrabass with a certain baggage of rock’n’roll and years dedicated to music crossing continents, picking up the fado. Pedro Gonçalves and Tó Trips are two characters: a gangster and a gravedigger who come out of a comic to make powerful and visually stunning concerts. His music is one of the most beautiful and unique chapters born in Portugal in the last decade.

ANA MOURA (PORTUGAL)

Born in the Portuguese town of Santarem, Ana Moura is one of the great voices of fado; the diva of contemporary fado. The recent history of the genre can not be written without its name. She has drunk from the sources of Amália Rodrigues, her great spiritual reference, but if anything characterizes it is how she instantly transforms any melody to which she lends her voice and turns her into fado. It is an immediate spark, an emotional explosion, relentlessly directed at the heart of the listener. With more than 300,000 albums sold, more than a dozen awards including two Golden Globes, two Amália awards, its history, perhaps, could not be told in the same way if Rolling Stone had not appeared in his life, and even less if Prince had not listened to her in a Parisian place. The first ones called her to collaborate with them in a couple of concerts and the second one was so absorbed with her voice and with her personality that it was she who gave her the push to fuse jazz with fado. He has also collaborated with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil or Herbie Hancock. She is the Portuguese artist with one of the most thriving careers of today.

MARIA DE MEDEIROS & LEGENDARY TIGERMAN (PORTUGAL)

The most internationally recognized facet of María de Medeiros is that of an actress. But Medeiros will be at La Mar de Músicas to show other faces of his frenetic creative activity: that of singer and director, in this case of documentaries. The Sea of ​​Cinema will make a special hole in this edition, as does the musical section of the festival that will host it with the poet and musician Paulo Furtado, the rocker from Coimbra who is behind the Legendary Tigerman brand. Considered at present as the Portuguese actress with the greatest international projection, Madeiros is Frenchified, polyglot, smiling and never loses her expression of a sweet naughty girl. She speaks six languages ​​and has done almost everything: film actress (Henry and June, Pulp fiction, Golden Eggs and 60 other films), but also director (Captains of April, and several other titles of fiction and documentaries), theater , musical and, lately singer, songwriter and composer. “I am an actress who sings and I do it with one foot in the theater and another in music, I like to mix both things” she usually says when asked about the discipline for which she feels most attracted. Her music like her is eclectic, she plays fados, salsa, bossanova, flamenco, jazz … The Portuguese actress who was forged working with filmmakers as essential in the history of cinema as Manoel de Oliveira or Quentin Tarantino, or as Bigas Luna in the case of Spanish cinema comes to Cartagena with the unique Portuguese musician Legendary Tigerman.

ESTRELLA MORENTE (ESPAÑA)

Estrella Morente has raised freedom since the beginning of her career. Personal freedom and artistic freedom, which has led the cantaora through very different territories, far from flamenco: tango, classical music, jazz, bossanova … styles that she has always colored with her style and voice. Now he travels again, and he travels to the world of copla. Thus, «Copla», is precisely titled his new album, the first individual published in seven years. An album in which she started working much earlier with her father, the huge Enrique Morente, and now she dedicates to her grandmother Rosario. An album in which he faces the challenge of playing such iconic songs as I am that, Oh sorry, sorry! o Sighs of Spain, by Maestro Álvarez Alonso, who was composed in our city, Cartagena. Estrella claims to have fallen in love with the genre and its main performers, Lola Flores, Imperio Argentina, Concha Piquer or Juana Reina. In its vindication of the popular genre par excellence in our country will be accompanied by a band of music, with the winds and percussions as protagonists, to the purest Spanish tradition. And although on the album, she moves away from those flamenco roots that define her so much, in her live show, the artist, the most important flamenco singer in our country, will not let her last name pass by.

KIKI MORENTE (ESPAÑA )

The younger of the Morentes, Kiki, will be in charge of opening the closing day of La Mar de Músicas, which this year is dedicated to a saga, his, the Morentes. A special night in which his older sisters Soleá and Estrella will also perform, also producer of his album, Albayzín. Belonging to the aristocracy of flamenco, the children of Enrique Morente and bailaora Aurora Carbonell “La Pelota” have already performed at La Mar de Músicas alone or accompanying their father, on the occasions he sang in Cartagena. Each one now comes to present his solo project. Kiki Morente will do it with Albayzín, with whom he has started a career with a lot of work and humility, two of the teachings that his father left him, who made his living as a shoemaker or apprentice as a silversmith before becoming a cante figure. The record that brings him to Cartagena recovers palos and sonorities that his father liked so much, such as bulerías, fandangos, soleás, sevillanas, poles and tarantos. The teacher told his son “The house has to start at the foundations, drink from the classics to learn and find your own way”. The academic imprint of Morente Sr. can be seen in the album, as was seen in Mi cante y un poma (2001), the meteorite with which his older sister, Estrella Morente, broke into the record scene. The saga continues.

SOLEÁ MORENTE (ESPAÑA)

With that name and that surname, it is already guessed as different. Rock? Flamenca? As an artist, Solea Morente was born in fusion, and musically it is both one thing and the other. Born in Madrid but raised in Granada, Soleá began collaborating with members of her family before embarking on her solo career. The singer helped her father and her sister with several of her works until in 2015 she published her first album, Tendrá que Haber Un Camino. Two posthumous compositions by Enrique Morente were included on the album. Ole lorelei, the singer’s new album, has been produced by Alonso Díaz, from the group Napoleón Solo, and has resulted in a perfect combination of pop and flamenco, which she already presented last year at La Mar de Músicas. He comes to show his creations without prejudice.

KYEKYEKU & GHANALOGUE HIGHLIFE (GHANA)

The guitar master Kyekyeku, as described by CNN Africa Voices himself, is a Ghanaian musician who professes passion for both acoustic and electric, with an intricate percussive groove and exuberant trumpets, straddling folk and urban rhythms. Kyekyeku is part of a generation of Ghanaian musicians who combine the musical traditions of the roots of the Palmwine (a style of Ghanaian folklore), Highlife and Afrobeat. Kyekyeku and Ghanalogue Highlife is a celebration of Ghana’s musical heritage of a bygone era and also a greeting to the evolution of modern trends with lyrics reminiscent of village recreational songs, protest songs, love poetry and the ancient African spirituality.

For more information about the festival https://lamardemusicas.cartagena.es/gestion/documentos/33513.pdf

San Javier es un Municipio situado junto al Mar Menor, el mayor lago salado de Europa, de una belleza natural y un clima incomparable, que vive en una constante primavera.

Cuenta con algunas de las playas más bellas de España, tanto las del Mar Menor, como las del Mediterráneo, y sus dos enclaves, “Santiago de la Ribera” y “La Manga del Mar Menor”, son un paraiso para el ocio y los deportes náuticos.

Si además de la completa oferta de servicios y de la belleza natural del Municipio, comparte Ud con nosotros las noches maravillosas del Festival de Jazz, puede estar seguro de que su visita a San Javier será inolvidable.

 ALGUNOS DE LOS ARTISTAS INVITADOS

THE WATERBOYS VIERNES 28 JUNIO

Con cuarenta años de vida y varios álbumes que hoy se consideran discos clásicos dentro de la historia del rock, como “This is the sea” (1985), “Fisherman’s blues” (1988) o “Room to roam” (1990), The Waterboys, la banda liderada por el carismático músico escocés Mike Scott, es una referencia incontestable en el mundo del folk y en el del rock & roll, y ha sido uno de los grupos clave para la recuperación para el gusto popular de las esencias del folk irlandés. Comparados por muchos con el mejor Neil Young, tras su magnífico álbum doble de 2017 “Out of all this blue”, The Waterboys abren la XXII edición de Jazz San Javier con la presentación en España de su recientísimo álbum, con fecha de publicación 24 de mayo de 2019, “Where the action is”.

FERNANDO RUBIO & THE INNER DEMONS VIERNES 28 JUNIO

Hace ya unos cuantos años que Fernando Rubio participó junto a su banda Ferroblues, de grato recuerdo, en Jazz San Javier, y su progresión musical, a juzgar por el excelente álbum que constituye su último trabajo, “Cheap Chinese Guitar”, ha sido impresionante. Blues, country, rock, soul, músicas todas de raíz estadounidense, pero que este cartagenero hace suyas con gran autenticidad. Quienes, como él, hemos amado y amamos esas músicas, encontramos en las canciones de Fernando ecos de Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, de The Band, de The Jayhawks, en composiciones muy inspiradas, que nos hacen preguntarnos ¿hasta dónde podría haber llegado este músico de haber desarrollado su carrera en EEUU y con la ayuda de la antes potente industria discográfica americana? En cualquier caso, “Cheap Chinese Guitar” y la excelente banda que le acompaña son una buena razón para invitarlo de nuevo al festival y disfrutar del altísimo nivel de estos músicos de la Región de Murcia.

BVR FLAMENCO BIG BAND SABADO 6 JULIO

El fuego y el duende del flamenco se enriquecen con colores inéditos con los maravillosos arreglos orquestales para Big Band de Bernard Van Rossum, saxofonista, compositor y arreglista hispano-holandés, líder y director de la espectacular BVR Big Band. Sus dos álbumes, aclamados por la crítica, “Jaleo Holandés” (2015) y “Luz de Luna” (2017) llevan la fusión entre el jazz y el flamenco a alturas siderales, y sirven de base a un directo espectacular, algo de lo que nadie podrá extrañarse teniendo en cuenta la trayectoria de David de Jacoba, un cantaor excepcional, miembro de la última banda del gran Paco de Lucía, y del propio Bernard Van Rossum, un magnífico saxofonista de jazz y director de orquesta. Disfrutemos pues de esta fantástica Big Band, compuesta por grandes instrumentistas de jazz y de sus ilustres invitados, a los que se suman a la guitarra flamenca Ricardo Moreno y la gran bailaora mejicana Karen Lugo; pocas veces puede verse reunido tanto talento en un solo escenario.

ANNA LUNA SABADO 29 JUNIO

Una de las cantantes de jazz y de música brasileña más prestigiosas de España, además de guitarrista y compositora, Anna Luna, nacida en Barcelona, se formó en el Conservatorio de Sabadell en Piano y Lenguaje musical, ampliando después sus estudios de Armonía, Voz, Guitarra, Cajón y Danza flamenca. Ha sido vocalista de la Orquesta Janio Martí, la Orquesta Maravella y la Cotton Club Big Band, y ha tocado con músicos de la talla de Miguel “Angá” Díaz, Jordi Bonell, Pedro Javier González, Víctor de Diego o David Palau. De entre sus discos destacan los álbumes: “Alguien” (1997), “Jazidas Project” (2002), “Batida Diferente” (2003), “Spring Is Here” (2005), “Sketches” (2007), “Femenina” (2011) o el más reciente “Urubú” (2016). Con una gran actividad docente que compagina con giras nacionales e internacionales, Anna Luna viene por primera vez a Jazz San Javier, acompañada por cinco grandes músicos, para mostrarnos por qué se la considera una de las mejores vocalistas españolas, deslumbrante cuando aborda el repertorio de la Música Popular Brasileña.

ZENET VIERNES 5 JULIO

En la XIX edición del festival, en una fantástica noche que compartió con el supergrupo de fusión Spyro Gyra, disfrutamos la música y el arte de Toni Zenet en San Javier por primera vez. Este gran cantante español dejó patente que es uno de los imprescindibles en la música de nuestro país, además de un buen actor y showman. Acaba de editar un nuevo álbum, “La Guapería”, esencialmente dedicado al bolero cubano, un disco magnífico, y una buena razón para volver a invitarlo a Jazz San Javier junto a esa excepcional banda que le acompaña que, por sí misma, ya es un aliciente para cualquier aficionado al jazz. Nada menos que Manuel Machado y Öve Larsson a la trompeta y al trombón, respectivamente, Pepe Rivero al piano, Raúl Márquez al violín y la guitarra mágica de José Taboada. Excelentes composiciones del acervo musical hispánico para este gran vocalista que lidera el nuevo jazz en español, en su regreso, muy esperado, a Jazz San Javier.

ANTONIO LIZANA SEXTETO VIERNES 12 JULIO
INVITA A LA MARI DE CHAMBAO

Decíamos hace unos años, tras su fantástico primer concierto en Jazz San Javier, que Antonio Lizana lo tenía todo para triunfar y que, si nada se interponía en su trayectoria, en muy pocos años sería uno de los grandes del jazz español. Nos quedamos cortos porque este saxofonista, cantaor y compositor gaditano está triunfando y paseando su arte por todo el planeta, convirtiéndose en un tiempo récord en una de las más admiradas estrellas del jazz flamenco, la forma más genuina del jazz en nuestro país. Su último álbum “Oriente”, el tercero de su carrera, y sus colaboraciones como cantaor y saxofonista con la Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra de Arturo O’Farrill, en Nueva York, son sus dos últimos hitos, y Antonio Lizana desplegará su arte en San Javier al frente de un sexteto de brillantes músicos con una invitada especial de excepción: María del Mar Rodríguez, “La Mari”, cantante del grupo Chambao, una de las artistas más queridas y admiradas de nuestro país.

KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION VIERNES 12 JULIO

Compuesta por la gran cantante Kennedy, Ondre J Pivec a los teclados, Jay White al bajo y el espectacular baterista Nathaniel Townsley, de grato recuerdo en Jazz San Javier, el grupo Kennedy Administration es un auténtico huracán de alegría, ritmo y energía. Mezclando el soul con pinceladas de jazz, r&b, hip-hop y funk, el cuarteto es una máquina bien engrasada que transmite su pasión por la música a todas las audiencias. Mención aparte merece la extraordinaria cantante Kennedy, una de las mejores vocalistas del nuevo soul-jazz, con claras influencias de Sade, Anita Baker y del estilo vocal de Luther Vandross. Un gran estreno en Jazz San Javier, de uno de los grupos más reconocidos del soul jazz en Nueva York.

BILL EVANS & THE SPY KILLERS DOMINGO 14 JULIO

MARCUS MILLER VIERNES 19 JULIO

Considerado uno de los músicos más influyentes del planeta y uno de los mejores bajistas de todos los tiempos, Marcus Miller, ganador de dos premios Grammy, ha dejado oír el característico sonido de su bajo eléctrico en innumerables éxitos, como “Just the two of us” de Bill Withers o “Never too much” de Luther Vandross, dejando su inconfundible marca en las carreras de artistas tan admirados como Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Al Jarreau, Bob James, Lalah Hathaway o Wayne Shorter. Importantes en su carrera son también los años que pasó en la banda de Miles Davis, con quien grabó seis álbumes, entre ellos el aclamado “Tutu”. Vuelve el gran Marcus Miller a Jazz San Javier, tras su paso por la octava y la décima edición del mismo, presentando su magnífico nuevo álbum “Laid Black”, nominado a un premio Grammy como mejor álbum contemporáneo instrumental; otro gran éxito de esta superestrella de la fusión entre el jazz, el funk y el soul.

RON CARTER FOURSIGHT QUARTET DOMINGO 21 JULIO

Leyenda viva del jazz, símbolo de la mejor tradición clásica dentro del mismo y uno de los mejores contrabajistas, si no el mejor, de toda la historia de este estilo musical, Ron Carter es también el contrabajista que más grabaciones atesora en toda la historia del jazz (más de 2.500 o 3.000, según las fuentes). Elegante y discreto, de porte casi espiritual, este fantástico músico tiene una clase innata que casa a la perfección con su instrumento. Con casi siete décadas de carrera, ha tocado con la mayor parte de los grandes del jazz, por mencionar sólo unos pocos: Eric Dolphy, Don Ellis, Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley o Sonny Rollins, y formó parte del célebre quinteto de Miles Davis, junto a Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter y Tony Williams. Desde 2009, en la XII edición de Jazz San Javier, no habíamos tenido la suerte de volver a disfrutar de la presencia de este gigante del jazz, bienvenido pues Ron Carter y su prestigioso.

ZOOT SUITERS MIERCOLES 24 JULIO

La espectacular banda de swing murciana Zoot Suiters, compuesta por siete grandes músicos, es una auténtica fábrica de energía y optimismo, integrando en su repertorio los grandes clásicos del swing y el lindy hop de los años 30 y 40 del siglo XX, así como estupendas versiones del pop actual adaptadas al swing. Hace dos años organizaron una impresionante fiesta de alegría, baile y buena música en la Explanada Barnuevo de La Ribera; este verano, en el precioso marco del Puerto Tomás Maestre en La Manga, esperamos un éxito del mismo nivel, con este fantástico grupo, que arrastra junto a él a una legión de amantes del swing.

CORY HENRY & THE FUNK APOSTLES SABADO 13 JULIO

Organista, pianista y cantante, Cory Henry es natural de Brooklyn, Nueva York, donde empezó a tocar el Hammond B3 y el piano a los dos años de edad, y con sólo seis años ofreció un concierto en el Teatro Apolo. Empezó a girar en 2006 con grandes figuras como Bruce Springsteen, Michael McDonald, Kenny Garrett o The Roots y grabó dos álbumes a su nombre, muy bien valorados por la crítica y por los aficionados al Jazz y el Gospel, sus dos grandes influencias. Tras sus trabajos como miembro del supergrupo Snarky Puppy, en abril de 2018 grabó su primer sencillo con su nueva banda The Funk Apostles, y unos meses más tarde el álbum “Art of Love”, que muestra, en gran parte, el impresionante poder que la banda tiene en directo. Hacía años que no surgía un grupo tan completo como éste, con unas voces fantásticas, unos instrumentistas con solos hipnóticos, algo así como unos Sly & The Family Stone del siglo XXI. Un gran concierto de soul, funk & gospel para deleite de los aficionados de Jazz San Javier, que sabrán apreciarlo en lo que vale.

MYLES SANKO 17 JULIO
INVITADA ESPECIAL: VANESSA HAYNES

Myles Sanko es un grande del soul europeo y su trayectoria ascendente es vertiginosa; cada año suma más adeptos, siendo Francia, España y el Reino Unido los países donde es más admirado. Tal como ocurrió antes del lanzamiento de su álbum “Just Being Me” en 2016, cuyos temas principales fueron presentados en primicia en nuestro festival, Myles Sanko presentará, también esta vez, en primicia en Jazz San Javier, con su banda al completo, una parte de los temas de su nuevo álbum, que verá la luz a finales de 2019. Para la segunda parte del concierto, una exclusiva, diseñada especialmente para el festival a petición del mismo, con la participación, como invitada especial, de una de las mejores voces femeninas del soul europeo, Vanessa Haynes, voz principal de la consagrada y mítica banda británica de soul Incognito. Vanessa y Myles interpretarán varios duetos originales juntos, por primera vez en un escenario, y algunas versiones de los clásicos del soul.

DIXIELAND TRAIN JUEVES 18 JULIO

La espectacular banda Dixieland Train es una Jazz Marching Band de Murcia que se especializa en clásicos del Jazz Dixieland y de la música moderna con arreglos de jazz tradicional.

Este verano, con ocasión del Festival, la banda recorrerá las calles del centro de la ciudad de San Javier y la Explanada Barnuevo de Santiago de la Ribera con su alegre y distendido pasacalles de variado repertorio al estilo de Nueva Orleans.

STEVE GADD BAND SABADO 20 JULIO

Leyenda viva de la batería, Steve Gadd es uno de los bateristas más admirados del mundo. De él ha dicho Chick Corea: “todos los bateristas quieren tocar como Gadd porque él alcanza la perfección”. Además de líder de su propia banda, es uno de los bateristas de sesión más demandados en el planeta y ha inmortalizado su arte en discos de Simon y Garfunkel, Steely Dan, James Taylor, Joe Cocker, Grover Washington Jr., Chick Corea, Lee Ritenour, Frank Sinatra, Al Jarreau, Eric Clapton, Chet Baker, Michel Petrucciani, The Bee Gees, Michael McDonald y muchos otros. Todo un honor recibir en Jazz San Javier a uno de los mejores bateristas de la historia del Jazz, que además acaba de ganar el premio Grammy 2019 por el Mejor Album Instrumental Contemporáneo, por su reciente álbum “Steve Gadd Band”.

VÍCTOR ANEIROS BAND + MIKE WHEELER, ALEX ZAYAS Y ANTONIO SERRANO MARTES 23 JULIO

Uno de los conciertos estrella de esta edición, el regreso del gran guitarrista y cantante gallego Víctor Aneiros y su banda, más tres invitados de excepción. Víctor Aneiros es uno de los mejores guitarristas de blues de España, pionero del blues en gallego, acaba de editar un álbum íntegramente en castellano, “Un extraño entre la multitud”, que presentará en Jazz San Javier. Para la segunda parte del concierto, Mike Wheeler, estrella del moderno blues de Chicago, nos ofrecerá una buena dosis de blues eléctrico de Chicago acompañado del gran guitarrista y cantante catalán afincado en Canadá Alex Zayas y el genio de la armónica Antonio Serrano, junto a Víctor Aneiros y su banda. Una producción de Jazz San Javier que dejará huella en los aficionados al blues del festival.

Para más información sobre este magnífico espectáculo pincha en el siguiente enlace http://www.jazz.sanjavier.es/

Jazz San Javier 2019

San Javier is a municipality located next to the Mar Menor, the largest salt lake in Europe, of natural beauty and incomparable climate, which lives in a constant spring.

It has some of the most beautiful beaches in Spain, both those of the Mar Menor and the Mediterranean, and its two enclaves, “Santiago de la Ribera” and “La Manga del Mar Menor”, are a paradise for leisure and nautical sports.

If in addition to the full range of services and natural beauty of the Municipality, you share with us the wonderful nights of the Jazz Festival, you can be sure that your visit to San Javier will be unforgettable.

SOME OF THE INVITED ARTISTS

THE WATERBOYS FRIDAY 28 JUNE

With forty years of life and several albums that today are considered classic discs within the history of rock, such as “This is the sea” (1985), “Fisherman’s blues” (1988) or “Room to roam” (1990), The Waterboys, the band led by the charismatic Scottish musician Mike Scott, is an undeniable reference in the world of folk and rock & roll, and has been one of the key groups for the recovery for the popular taste of folk essences Irish. Compared by many with the best Neil Young, after their magnificent double album of 2017 “Out of all this blue”, The Waterboys open the XXII edition of Jazz San Javier with the presentation in Spain of their recent album, with date of publication 24 of May 2019, “Where the action is.”

FERNANDO RUBIO & THE INNER DEMONS FRIDAY 28 JUNE

It has been a few years since Fernando Rubio participated with his band Ferroblues, of fond memory, in Jazz San Javier, and his musical progression, judging by the excellent album that constitutes his latest work, “Cheap Chinese Guitar”, has been impressive . Blues, country, rock, soul, all American root music, but that this Cartagena makes his own with great authenticity. Those who, like him, have loved and loved those music, we find in the songs of Fernando echoes of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, of The Band, of The Jayhawks, in very inspired compositions, that make us wonder: how far could there be Did this musician have developed his career in the US and with the help of the once powerful American record industry? In any case, “Cheap Chinese Guitar” and the excellent band that accompanies him are a good reason to invite him back to the festival and enjoy the high level of these musicians of the Region of Murcia.

BVR FLAMENCO BIG BAND SATURDAY 6 JULY

he flamenco fire and elf are enriched with unprecedented colors with the wonderful orchestral arrangements for Big Band by Bernard Van Rossum, saxophonist, composer and arranger Hispano-Dutch, leader and director of the spectacular BVR Big Band. His two critically acclaimed albums, “Jaleo Holandés” (2015) and “Luz de Luna” (2017) bring the fusion between jazz and flamenco to sidereal heights, and serve as the basis for a spectacular live show, something that that nobody can be surprised considering the trajectory of David de Jacoba, an exceptional cantaor, member of the last band of the great Paco de Lucía, and of Bernard Van Rossum himself, a magnificent jazz saxophonist and conductor. Let’s enjoy this fantastic Big Band, composed of great jazz instrumentalists and their illustrious guests, who are joined by the flamenco guitar Ricardo Moreno and the great Mexican bailaora Karen Lugo; You can rarely see so much talent gathered in a single scenario.

ANNA LUNA SATURDAY 29 JUNE

One of the most prestigious Brazilian jazz and music singers in Spain, as well as guitarist and composer, Anna Luna, born in Barcelona, ​​she trained at the Conservatorio de Sabadell in Piano and Musical Language, later expanding her studies of Harmony, Voice, Guitar, Cajón y Danza flamenca. He has been a vocalist of the Janio Martí Orchestra, the Maravella Orchestra and the Cotton Club Big Band, and has played with musicians such as Miguel “Angá” Díaz, Jordi Bonell, Pedro Javier González, Víctor de Diego and David Palau. Among his albums are the albums: “Alguien” (1997), “Jazidas Project” (2002), “Batida Diferente” (2003), “Spring Is Here” (2005), “Sketches” (2007), “Feminine” (2011) or the most recent “Urubú” (2016). With a great teaching activity that combines with national and international tours, Anna Luna comes for the first time to Jazz San Javier, accompanied by five great musicians, to show us why she is considered one of the best Spanish vocalists, dazzling when she approaches the repertoire of Brazilian Popular Music.

 ZENET FRIDAY 5 JULY

In the XIX edition of the festival, on a fantastic night that he shared with the fusion supergroup Spyro Gyra, we enjoyed the music and art of Toni Zenet in San Javier for the first time. This great Spanish singer made it clear that he is one of the essentials in the music of our country, as well as a good actor and showman. He has just released a new album, “La Guapería”, essentially dedicated to the Cuban bolero, a magnificent record, and a good reason to invite him back to Jazz San Javier with that exceptional band that accompanies him, which, by itself, is already an incentive for any jazz aficionado. None other than Manuel Machado and Öve Larsson on trumpet and trombone, respectively, Pepe Rivero on piano, Raúl Márquez on violin and José Taboada’s magic guitar. Excellent compositions of the Hispanic musical heritage for this great vocalist who leads the new jazz in Spanish, on his long awaited return to Jazz San Javier.

ANTONIO LIZANA SEXTETO FRIDAY JULY 12
INVITE THE MARI OF CHAMBAO

We said a few years ago, after his fantastic first concert at Jazz San Javier, that Antonio Lizana had everything to succeed and that, if nothing stood in his way, in a few years would be one of the greats of Spanish jazz. We fell short because this saxophonist, cantaor and composer from Cádiz is triumphing and taking his art all over the world, becoming a record time in one of the most admired stars of flamenco jazz, the most genuine form of jazz in our country. His last album “Oriente”, the third of his career, and his collaborations as cantaor and saxophonist with the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra of Arturo O’Farrill, in New York, are his last two milestones, and Antonio Lizana will display his art in San Javier at the head of a sextet of brilliant musicians with a special guest of exception: María del Mar Rodríguez, “La Mari”, singer of the group Chambao, one of the most beloved and admired artists of our country.

KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION FRIDAY 12 JULY

Composed by the great singer Kennedy, Ondre J Pivec on keyboards, Jay White on bass and the spectacular drummer Nathaniel Townsley, a fond memory at Jazz San Javier, the Kennedy Administration group is a real hurricane of joy, rhythm and energy. Mixing soul with touches of jazz, r & b, hip-hop and funk, the quartet is a well-oiled machine that transmits its passion for music to all audiences. Special mention deserves the extraordinary singer Kennedy, one of the best vocalists of the new soul-jazz, with clear influences of Sade, Anita Baker and vocal style of Luther Vandross. A great premiere at Jazz San Javier, one of the most recognized soul jazz groups in New York.

BILL EVANS & THE SPY KILLERS DOMINGO 14 JULIO

Since his first visit to our festival in its V edition in 2002, Bill Evans has provided us with unforgettable nights, such as the first visit of the Randy Brecker – Bill Evans Soulbop Band in 2004, the historic concert with the CTI All Stars Band in 2009, Robben Ford & Bill Evans in 2010 or Bill Evans Soulgrass Band in 2013, to the point that we can consider it as one of the indisputable icons of Jazz San Javier, an inexhaustible and brilliant musician who continually reinvents himself and who always has something new to offer. However, this exceptional saxophonist and composer still kept a surprise for us: he is beginning to sing at his concerts, and he does it quite well. We want to hear it with their new band The Spy Killers, with the spectacular German drummer Wolfgang Haffner, the virtuoso of the Hammond B3 Simon Oslender and the groove master of electric bass Gary Grainger; Jazz Fusion at the highest level with a great band led by one of the most admired saxophonists on the planet.

MARCUS MILLER FRIDAY 19 JULY

Considered one of the most influential musicians on the planet and one of the best bass players of all time, Grammy Award-winning winner Marcus Miller has heard the characteristic sound of his electric bass in countless hits, such as “Just the two of us “By Bill Withers or” Never too much “by Luther Vandross, leaving his unmistakable mark in the careers of artists as admired as Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Al Jarreau, Bob James, Lalah Hathaway or Wayne Shorter. Important in his career are also the years he spent in the band Miles Davis, with whom he recorded six albums, including the acclaimed “Tutu”. The great Marcus Miller returns to Jazz San Javier, after passing through the eighth and tenth edition of the same, presenting his magnificent new album “Laid Black”, nominated for a Grammy Award as the best contemporary instrumental album; another great success of this superstar of the fusion between jazz, funk and soul.

RON CARTER FOURSIGHT QUARTET SUNDAY 21 JULY

Living legend of jazz, symbol of the best classical tradition within it and one of the best double bass players, if not the best, of the whole history of this musical style, Ron Carter is also the bass player who has the most recordings in the history of the jazz (more than 2,500 or 3,000, according to sources). Elegant and discreet, almost spiritual in nature, this fantastic musician has an innate class that marries perfectly with his instrument. With almost seven decades of career, he has played with most of the great jazz greats, to mention only a few: Eric Dolphy, Don Ellis, Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley or Sonny Rollins, and was part of the famous quintet Miles Davis, along with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams. Since 2009, at the XII edition of Jazz San Javier, we had not been lucky enough to enjoy the presence of this jazz giant again, so welcome Ron Carter and his prestigious.

ZOOT SUITERS WEDNESDAY 24 JULY

he spectacular swing band Murcia Zoot Suiters, composed of seven great musicians, is an authentic factory of energy and optimism, integrating in its repertoire the great classics of swing and lindy hop of the 30s and 40s of the 20th century, as well as great current pop versions adapted to the swing. Two years ago they organized an impressive party of joy, dancing and good music in the Barnuevo Esplanade of La Ribera; This summer, in the beautiful setting of Puerto Tomás Maestre in La Manga, we expect a success of the same level, with this fantastic group, which drags along with it a legion of swing lovers.

CORY HENRY & THE FUNK APOSTLES SATURDAY 13 JULY

Organist, pianist and singer, Cory Henry is a native of Brooklyn, New York, where he started playing the Hammond B3 and the piano at two years of age, and at the age of six offered a concert at the Apolo Theater. He began touring in 2006 with great figures such as Bruce Springsteen, Michael McDonald, Kenny Garrett and The Roots and recorded two albums in his name, highly valued by critics and fans of Jazz and Gospel, his two great influences. After his work as a member of the supergroup Snarky Puppy, in April 2018 he recorded his first single with his new band The Funk Apostles, and a few months later the album “Art of Love”, which shows, in large part, the impressive power that the band has live. A group as complete as this one had not appeared for years, with fantastic voices, instrumentalists with hypnotic solos, something like Sly & The Family Stone of the 21st century. A great concert of soul, funk & gospel to delight the fans of Jazz San Javier, who will appreciate it for what it’s worth.

MYLES SANKO 17 JULY
SPECIAL GUEST: VANESSA HAYNES

Myles Sanko is a big one of the European soul and his upward trajectory is vertiginous; every year adds more followers, being France, Spain and the United Kingdom the countries where it is most admired. As it happened before the release of his album “Just Being Me” in 2016, whose main themes were presented at the festival, Myles Sanko will present, also this time, a premiere at Jazz San Javier, with his band in full, a part of the themes of his new album, which will be released at the end of 2019. For the second part of the concert, an exclusive, specially designed for the festival at his request, with the participation, as a special guest, of one of the best female voices of European soul, Vanessa Haynes, main voice of the consecrated and legendary British soul band Incognito. Vanessa and Myles will perform several original duets together, for the first time on stage, and some versions of the soul classics.

DIXIELAND TRAIN THURSDAY 18 JULY

The spectacular band Dixieland Train is a Jazz Marching Band from Murcia that specializes in Dixieland Jazz classics and modern music with traditional jazz arrangements.

This summer, on the occasion of the Festival, the band will tour the streets of the city center of San Javier and the Barnuevo Esplanade of Santiago de la Ribera with its cheerful and relaxed parade of varied repertoire in the style of New Orleans.

STEVE GADD BAND SATURDAY 20 JULY

Living legend of the drums, Steve Gadd is one of the most admired drummers in the world. Chick Corea said of him: “all the drummers want to play like Gadd because he reaches perfection”. In addition to leading his own band, he is one of the most demanded session drummers on the planet and has immortalized his art on albums by Simon and Garfunkel, Steely Dan, James Taylor, Joe Cocker, Grover Washington Jr., Chick Corea, Lee Ritenour, Frank Sinatra, Al Jarreau, Eric Clapton, Chet Baker, Michel Petrucciani, The Bee Gees, Michael McDonald and many others. It is an honor to receive in Jazz San Javier one of the best drummers in the history of Jazz, who has also just won the 2019 Grammy for the Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, for his recent album “Steve Gadd Band”.

VÍCTOR ANEIROS BAND + MIKE WHEELER, ALEX ZAYAS AND ANTONIO SERRANO TUESDAY 23 JULY

One of the star concerts of this edition, the return of the great guitarist and Galician singer Víctor Aneiros and his band, plus three exceptional guests. Víctor Aneiros is one of the best blues guitarists in Spain, pioneer of blues in Galician, he has just released an album entirely in Spanish, “Un extraño entre la multitud”, which he will present at Jazz San Javier. For the second part of the concert, Mike Wheeler, star of the modern blues of Chicago, will offer us a good dose of Chicago electric blues accompanied by the great Catalan guitarist and singer settled in Canada Alex Zayas and the genius of the harmonica Antonio Serrano, together with Víctor Aneiros and his band. A production of Jazz San Javier that will leave a mark on the blues fans of the festival.

For more information about this magnificent show click on the following link http://www.jazz.sanjavier.es/

El festival Mucho Más Mayo se ha dotado en la presente edición de una comisión asesora en la que están representadas diversas ong y asociaciones con presencia en los barrios de la ciudad en los que el festival tiene sede en esta edición (Accem, Amnistía Internacional, Cepaim, La Botica del Libro, Rascasa, Al Raso, Federación de Asociaciones de Vecinos de Cartagena y Comarca), más las concejalías de Igualdad y de Servicios Sociales (además de la de Cultura), y el proyecto Refugium de la Universidad de Murcia.

Uno de su primeros trabajos ha sido la elaboración de los criterios que han de ser tenidos en cuenta para abordar el tema del festival de este año, “El rostro del otro. Arte y hospitalidad”.

Para más información, les proporcionamos el siguiente enlace con la programación del festival Mucho + Mayo 2019: Programa M+M

Much More May 2019

The tenth edition of Mucho Más Mayo, the Emerging Art Festival will be held this year in Cartagena (Murcia, Spain) between May 10 and 21, 2019.

MUCH MORE MAY reaches ten editions this year. Four years ago he was recovered after many more suspension. We are very happy with the vitality that shows again.

On this special occasion, the festival has chosen as its motto “The Face of the Other, Art and Hospitality”, seeking to interrogate and reflect from the world of art on otherness and human diversity, and the obligations it implies for societies in which old principle of hospital reception, then regulated by treaties and laws, is being questioned.

For this we have selected a sample of works and projects that approach this question from very different angles and expressive languages.

This year the festival will take place between May 10 and 21, with a prologue of activities the previous days. The closing coincides with the commemoration of the World Day of Cultural Diversity. And as a novelty, in this edition participate all the neighborhoods that have been present in the history of the festival (six neighborhoods of the municipality), which will share prominence with the historic center of Cartagena.

n the program we find dozens of proposals ranging from installations to street art, from performing arts to music, from performance to poetry or cinema, from philosophy to photography, etc., with specific sections (One Urban World, Much More Music, Week Short, Art Center, Training Lab).

It is also a new opportunity to rearm the festival’s commitment to gender equality and environmental sustainability.

MUCH MORE MAYO is the result of an intense collaboration between institutions, artists, associations and collectives. So this year we have to mention, together with the City of Cartagena that calls and sustains the festival with the intervention of various departments and municipal areas, the collaboration of the Higher Technical School of Architecture and Editing (ETSAE) of the UPCT, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Murcia, of ISEN, of several secondary education centers of the municipality, of the National Museum of Underwater Archeology (ARQUA), of the Cartagena Piensa program, of the Popular University of Cartagena, and of many associations, and projects that work with migrants and refugees.

The festival takes place in two territorial areas that are the Historical Quarter of Cartagena and the neighborhoods invited in previous editions of the festival, which are Bda. Virgen de la Caridad, Bº de Santa Lucía, Bº de la Concepción, Bº de San Antón, Bº de Peral and Jose Mª Lapuerta, and Barrio de Los Dolores-Bda. Hispanoamérica-El Bohío.

Much More May is a program of artistic interventions in the urban environment developed by creators of all creative records, using public spaces and unconventional places in the city and municipality of Cartagena (Murcia, Spain).

The festival is organized by the City of Cartagena through the Department of Culture and Youth, and has an Organizing Committee.

In addition, the festival is developed under a set of experimental processes that interrelate emerging artistic practice, work with citizenship, participation, artistic education and cultural production.

The festival has a specific section that links it with the educational centers, “Art to the Center, Student Festival”. It also has other fixed sections such as the short film show “Semana Corta”, the musical festival “Mucho Más Música”, a training program for workshops and seminars, a series of lectures and debates, and a section on urban culture (One Urban World ).

One Urban World ‘, the urban culture section of the Mucho Más Mayo festival, shows us our most international artist born in Cartgena in 1977, Kraser.

The well-known Cartagena artist, our most international artist, Kraser, has coordinated, once again, this program whose immense works are already visible through the streets of Cartagena, modifying the appearance of the city. The murals and graffiti of this ‘One Urban World’ are added, in this way, to the dozens of large murals that the festival has left as a legacy of other editions, which are already an indelible sign of the contemporary urban imaginary of Cartagena.

The M + M festival has a commitment to gender equality so that no gender in its program will be represented above 60% or below 40%. The festival has also assumed a commitment to sustainability, so the effort to reduce the environmental impact of the proposals will be valued.

The theme of the call will be “THE FACE OF THE OTHER. ART AND HOSPITALITY “.

“Because all human beings are on planet Earth and everyone, without exception, has the right to be in it and visit its places and the people who inhabit it. The Earth belongs communally to all »
Immanuel Kant
“Beyond responsibility is solidarity, and beyond this is hospitality”
Edmond Jabès
We are entering a new time in which the borders proliferate. In the last twenty years walls and fences have been erected all over the world (today they exist in more than seventy countries). The globalization of the crisis and the climate chaos are multiplying the refugees and displaced persons (68.5 million in June 2018). Since the refugee crisis of 2015, the Mediterranean is a marine cemetery where thousands of migrants lose their lives.

The political discourse on migrants and refugees has become dangerously toxic. A policy of identity closure and fear of imaginary dangers threatens to put an end to hospitality for those who come from outside, fleeing violence or extreme poverty. We do not accept our responsibility in front of the “misery of the world”, in spite of the unequal relations imposed between the North and the South – we reject people but we extract their wealth in a very unjust (un) world order. This closure also prevents us from renewing our aging societies, enriching them with cultural diversity and ensuring future well-being.

The return to the compassionate, to the moral treatment is insufficient and can not replace the political imperative. Hospitality is a very old principle that has historically accompanied many societies, which converted the foreigner into a guest. Now we are making this guest a stranger.

The philosopher Lévinas spoke of the irreducible otherness of the other expressed in his face. It is this face of the other that introduces humanity and raises the ethical question: it is the one that makes us responsible. Letting this other speak is an act of recognition without which there is no room for hospitality.

Does art have to say against the oblivion of the other? Can the artists from here and from outside make us reflect with their proposals on hospitality in a world that questions it, without falling into paternalism or good intentions? Art is a powerful instrument for questioning hegemonic discourses and deconstructing dominant representations, and for imagining another possible world.

The festival Much More May has been endowed in the present edition of an advisory commission in which are represented diverse ong and associations with presence in the districts of the city in which the festival has soothes in this edition (Accem, Amnesty International, Cepaim , The Botica del Libro, Rascasa, Al Raso, Federation of Neighborhood Associations of Cartagena and District), plus the councils of Equality and Social Services (in addition to the Department of Culture), and the Refugium project of the University of Murcia.

One of his first works has been the development of the criteria that have to be taken into account to address the theme of this year’s festival, “The Face of the Other, Art and Hospitality.”

These are the agreed criteria:

• We conceive migrants and refugees as active, creative and with their own voice.
• We believe it is important to draw attention to the trajectories of people, their projects, struggles and all that they were and are in addition to migrants or those who seek refuge.
• We understand interculturality as a process not focused on the cultural and / or ethnic differences of the people who live in a territory but in the areas / spaces of interaction that are jointly constructed from the diverse.
• We believe it necessary not to reproduce a compassionate or miserabilistic view of migrants and refugees
• But at the same time we consider it necessary to denounce the migratory policies that are currently being developed that cause thousands of deaths and place migrants in contexts of extreme vulnerability
• We conceive hospitality and welcome from a broad approach that involves neighborhood, labor, school, cultural, socioeconomic and political inclusion
• Protected by Article 13 of the International Declaration of Human Rights, we assume mobility as a human right
• We defend the right to be born, to live and to die in peaceful and sustainable environments in which human rights are respected and fulfilled
• We affirm, in coherence with the Sustainable Development Goals, the need to reduce the different inequalities that are at the base of a large part of the migratory processes
• We agree on the need to make visible the special impact that migration has on women and girls
• We consider it necessary to recognize the indispensable role that migrants play in our society.

MUCH MORE MUSIC

MUCHA MÁS MÚSICA vuelve un año más consolidándose como el evento musical de mayor relevancia dentro de MUCHO MÁS MAYO. Se trata de un festival con esencia joven y arriesgada, en el que se pone el foco en estilos de músicas alternativas, quizás poco habituales en los circuitos comerciales. Propuestas eclécticas pero con cierto carácter festivo; este año con especial interés en las músicas mestizas del mundo. Esperamos que la selección de grupos y artistas de esta edición, hagan de la noche del 11 de mayo,  el mejor de los comienzos posibles para Mucho Más Mayo 2019. Un festival gratuito y al aire libre, que por cuarto año se ubica en el maravilloso marco de la Muralla de Carlos III, en el que en un ambiente relajado y familiar, se pueda disfrutar de la música en directo, al tiempo que se descansa en la maravillosa campa de césped natural, o que se toma un refresco y se degusta alguna delicia culinaria de la mano de las empresas colaboradoras que prepararán una propuesta especial para el festival.

KONIRÉ
The concerts count in this edition like head of poster, with one of the great musical surprises of this year. A band that intersperses different genres around percussion and that makes miscegenation its banner, with a fresh, cheerful proposal, with a message and in which women have great prominence. It’s about the Murcian Koniré, a group that will undoubtedly make the public dance.

AZIZ & KUNTA
The Senegalese Aziz Diouf, leads the Aziz & Kunta multicultural project, in which musicians of different African nationalities come together to make the percussion, dance and ancestral rhythms of black Africa, a colorful and deep creative discourse, based on tradition griot.

DON FLUOR
The night will conclude (and start) with Don Fluor, alter ego of the inimitable DJ Albacete Rafa Lopez. A pincha-disks that makes the versatility of different styles your banner; mixing electronic, rock, funk, disco, rap, latin, techno, dub, house and flamenco among others. With him the party has no mystery, because it is insured.