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The recovered Folk Festival Cartagena, who has returned to town after twelve years disappeared, has successfully completed more than 10 thousand people who have gone through the festival grounds, located on the esplanade of the Port of Cartagena.
Music and entertainment activities have intermingled throughout the weekend with a craft fair, with an original gastronomic proposal by food trucks, vintage trucks twelve-enabled cooking and serving meals in the world.
This claim has allowed the public to enjoy concerts, while tasted the culinary proposals of street restaurateurs, craftsmen or buying top quality products.
The festival began on Thursday 16 at the Auditorium The Batel with the trikitilari known Basque Kepa Junkera who was accompanied by the vocal group sorginak, counting as a group invited to the Murcian proposal, Women Root.
Both they made excited the audience with their work songs, lullabies, and all the music of oral tradition in which women have been protagonists throughout history.
From there, the other activities developed in the grounds of the Port, free of charge, from Friday until Sunday.
In those days there was an incessant activity, with the passage of thousands of people could enjoy thequality of musical proposals.
The opening of the main stage on Friday, 17, was given by the group The Ben Gunn Mento Band, which reunited for this occasion, three years after his last concert.
His West Indian music with Caribbean touches are, calypso, boogaloo ... did enjoy the public, after the performance of the percussion D'Akokan, who was enlivening the festival with its powerful rhythms and percussion batucada, and they did start fast-paced activity.
Already in the day on Saturday, in which the bulk of the music program of this edition was developed, we in the morning session with the soloist Juan Jose Robles, accompanied by his band.
beautiful melodies of traditional inspiration, with the cords of mandolins, mandolin, guitarros ... as protagonists, contained in waiting discoTiempo were heard.
The afternoon session was for Manuel Luna, one of the deans of music reprocessing in our country, which premiered live his album Travel Soundscapes, getting start singing all the popular audience traditional songs like What up, which down.
At night, with the room full to overflowing, it was the turn of La Banda del Pepo, a magnificent spectacle that combines the eastern Mediterranean, Flamenco music, Arabic ... what the imposing figure of Sara Guirado adds , a dancer and oriental dance rhythms of international prestige.
The day ended with a very lively session alicantino PinchaMundos DJ Boni, making a tour of music from around the globe.
Sunday was reached the final of the 2016 Folk Cartagena, making a nod to traditional African music, with the participation of Senegalese musician and dancer Aziz Diouf and his group Kunta Kinte.
based on percussion and vocals rhythms that dazzled a large audience, largely made up of cruise passengers Queen Victoria she was docked in the city.
With the recovery of the Department of Cartagena Folk Culture returns to town festivals one in the longest established and popular support last met early last decade (2001-2004), which had the ministerial support through INJUVE, Cartagena and they brought some of the most important formations of this type of music in Europe.
The idea behind the organizers is to make this festival back in a few editions of the references of regional and national Folk.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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