The "Veranos de la Villa" celebrate its 25. anniversary with the aim of "moving the culture closer to the citizens".

Paco de Lucía

On June 29. Paco de Lucia will initiate the festival on the Puerta del Angel stage, one of the main stage with the Sabatini Gardens. This event will be introduced by the mayor hiself, Alberto Ruiz Gallardon.
The festival bets on the theater, the zarzuela and the movies, but the main course is the music, with the shows of Diana Krall, Marianne Faithfull, ELvis Costello, Youssou N'Dour, Sinead O'Connor or the Portuguese singer Adriana Calcanhotto.
This festival is one of the identity sign of the city with an impressive musical offer, but also a lot of dance and theater. The Puerta del Angel stage, the Sabatini Gardens, the different streets and squares of the capital, but also some local and private theaters and live bars will offer some of the 150 shows during July and August.

Diego "El Cigala": Flamenco and tango are soul musics, we are discovering that on the eighth album of "Cigala & Tango"

Diego El Cigala

"Cigala&Tango" will be available next June 20. It is the eighth album of Diego "El Cigala", counting on the collaboration of Andrés Calamaro and musicians such as Néstor Marconi and Juanjo Domínguez.With this new album "Cigala&Tango", Diego "El Cigala" assume the Argentin flamenco tradition, especially when he sings the eleven hard tangos, an album defined like "soul music" by the artist and that rised during a night shared with the Argentin audience when he was singing "Garganta con arena"."Flamenco and tango are different but you can get a great mix with these two different musical types, because we are talking about a music coming from the soul, a magical kind of music", says Diego "El Cigala". Next Sunday the musician will publish the live CIgala&Tango, recorded in Buenos Aires, with the collaboration of a lot of Argentin musicians such as Calamaro.The new work of "El Cigala" (Madrid, 1968) is made up of eleven classical tango themes, to which the artist is giving a flamenco touch, recorded during his show last April 29. in the mythical Grand Rex of Buenos Aires. Among these songs you'll find themes like "El día que me quieras", "Sus ojos se cerraron" or "Tomo y obligo"..

Enrique Morente and Antonio Canales two figures in the third week of Suma Flamenca 2010

Enrique Morente en la tercera semana de la Suma Flamenca 2010

Enrique Morente in Suma Flamenca 2010

The third week of the V. Edition of the Flamenco Festival of Madrid, Suma Flamenca 2010, will offer five shows (three singing shows and two dance shows). They will take place at the Canal Theaters, having some great artists like Enrique Morente, Pastora Galván and Joaquín Grillo, Juan Valderrama, Argentina and Antonio, Antonio Canales and Amador Rojas, according to the information provided by the festival's organisation. The third week of the festival will start tomorrow with the musical performance of the master Enrique Morente, who will offer a classical flamenco concert, at 8.30pm. That will be the prelude of the Flamenco Bienal of Sevilla. The show of Pastora Galván "Bailes" will be presented next Wednesday 16. On Thursday the festival will offer a recital titles "Maestros", where the voice and the guitare are fitting in with the piano and violins harmonic richness". On Friday 18. Argentino will sing by tangos, bulerias, soleas, alegrias, fandangos and rumbas accompanied by guitars, piano, trumpet, percussion, palmas, choirs and Manuel Parrila as guest star. The concert will take place on Friday 18. at 8.30pm. And the last show of this third week will be dedicated to the dance, when Antonio Canales will dance with his pupil Amador Rojas during "Alternativa". We will discover the experience of one of the greatest dancers and the youth of the new generation.

Estrella Morente and The Argentinian ballet of Julio Bocca will shine in the 51. edition of the Festival Cueva in Nerja.

Estrella Morente

This is the 51. edition of this competition with a program that includes the tango company of Julio Bocca and the ballet of the National Theater from Praga.

The International Festival of Music and Dance of the Cueva de Nerja, the most veteran and genuine of the Malaga region, is living its 51. edition with the presence of Estrella Morente and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Spanish Radio Television (RTVE).

Miguel Poveda developped Carta Blanca, a new flamenco record label.

Carta Blanca nuevo sello discográfico flamenco

Logo of the record label Carta Blanca

The singer-songwriter Miguel Poveda developped a new record label, Carta Blanca, pretending "support the flamenco artists in order that they had the possibility to go ahead in their musical works and to help the flamenco growth."The first launching will be for the singer-songwriter from Jerez, Londro and his album "Luna de enero". And soon a new launching with Kiko Peña, 15 years old, from Ecija. The Carta Blanca manager will be Karonte.