Mayte Martin

The flamenco singer and composer Mayte Martin, accepted and considerated by everyone will present her last work "Al cantar a Manuel" next October 3. at the Girona Auditorium.This new disc is a real event, because it offers a collection of songs based on the poems of the poet and journalist Manuel Alcanta, from Malaga. On this cd Mayte Martin reinvents the poetry singing and in a very honourable way. Her aim was to be the voice of the poet, be his breathing. We are talking about flamenco, about La Niña de los Peines and Pepe Marchena, but also Jacques Brel and Joni Mitchell, because the work of Mayte Martin is incredible.. 

Farruquito

The "taconeo" of Farruquito will resound next Saturday in the Sabatini Gardens and will close the last week of the flamenco cycle during the Veranos de la Villa 2010. Also present the guitar player Gerardo Nuñez and the singers José Menese, Arcangel and Mayte Martin.

The dancer from Seville, will close the season of this big event in Madrid, with his artistical offer "Puro", accompanied by 14 musicians, and offering a trip through the flamenco palos.

After his show in the Veranos de la Villa, Farruquito will be on stage on September 9. in the Auditorium of La Palma de Mallorca and on September 21. in the Maestranza of Sevilla Theater for the XV. Flamenco Bienal.

Infanta Elena de Borbon

The Royal Family announced to the Cultural Government Department that they will support the candidacy of the flamenco for its inclusion on the Representative List of the Immaterial Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity of the Unesco. In a letter sent by this institution we are informed that the King Juan Carlos thinks it's "very intersting" and "wishes all the best to this project".

The candidacy of the flamenco is counting with the support of the central government, but also with the autonomous governments of Andalusia, Murcia and Extremadura. All these are important supports. Furthermore more than 6000 individual votes have been obtained during last term and we can now add the support of the La Coruña University, the Mont Marsan Festival, the president of the Andalusian Business Men, Santiago Herreri or Daniel Barenboim among others, but also federations, fundations and associations in connection with flamenco art, the "arte jondo". Sum-total among two millions of Ansalusian support this candidacy. 

Carlos Saura

Appreciation and prizes in movie competitions all around the world- from Berlin to Cannes, from New York to San Sebastian- pull the career of Carlos Saura (Huesca 1932). However, it is in the Montreal festival, in Canada, where the author of famous titles of musical cinema as Bodas de sangre or Sevillanas, received a lot of prizes, close to a ten for movies like El amor brujo, Carmen, Pajarico, Goya en Burdeos or El séptimo día for which he received, in the edition of 2004, the prize of the best director, like the Gran Premio Especial de las Amercias in 1995 for the movie Flamenco.