Vicente Amigo complete concert

We found the complete copy of the dvd of one of Vincent Amigo´s concerts (almost one hour). We published the first part earlier in this blog. Take your time to enjoy this, it has some spectacular surprises....



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XXI Festival Flamenco de Fondón 17 agosto 2011

Website : http://fondon-andarax.blogspot.com/2011/08/cartel-xxi-festival-flamenco-de-fondon.html

Related key words: gitaar, guitar, flamenco, alpujarras, valderrama, tomatito, sonidos blancos

Festival de Música Tradicional de la Alpujarra, Almócita 2010

The Festival de Música Tradicional de la Alpujarra is the most important manifestation of traditional Alpujarran music. This Festival of Traditional Music of the Alpujarra is held every year since 1982, on the second Sunday of August. The locality where it takes place varies each year. This year it is on the 8th of August and it will be hosted by Almócita. About twenty-five groups will participate in this town in de Almería province. According to an article in the Ideal, Celia Garcia-Ruiz won the contest of the design of the poster of the 29th edition of the festival. The first years it was designed by Martín Morales, and over the years it has become a type of collector´s item for some people. On a personal blog of somebody from Cádiar, we can find all the ´carteles del festival´ and a ´historia del festival´.
The twenty-ninth edition of the festival will be dedicated to Alejandro Buendía Muñoz for his research work on the local customs and traditions. The ethnologist Alejandro Buendía Muñoz is the director of the Museo Histórico Etnográfico de Terque and Museo de la Uva del Barco.
The ´orden the actuación´ , the order of performances or program can be found on the blog of Rafael Gan, one of the ´presentadores´. The first group will perform at 10.00 hours.






Related articles:
- Music of the day archive

Related links:
- Article from the Ideal Almócita se convierte en sede del consolidado día de la Alpujarra

Música en las Montañas, La Taha 2010

The VII Festival ´Música en las Montañas´, a series of summer concerts of classical music, will take place from July to September. The concerts are on old threshing circles, village squares or in churches of differrent villages in the Taha valley. The first concert will be given by the Coral Ciudad de Granada on Friday the 30th of July in Pitres. The festival ´Music in the Mountains´ is organized by the Alexander Music School in Ferreirola and the Ayuntamiento de La Taha.

Live guitar music in La Cueva de Mora Luna 15th April 2010

Alpujarrahoy let us know by email (not on the blog) that coming Thursday at 21:00 hours Richard Waterborn will play classical guitar music in the bar la Cueva de Mora Luna in Mecina (Taha).
The place is small and if you want to have dinner there, reservation of the table is needed.
Entrance "Tela Marinera / Pass the hat"
Telephone: 958 765202 / 664 722145
See also an earlier article on this blog about La Cueva de Mora Luna

Carlos Cano - Pasodoble Torero a Gerald Brenan

José Carlos Cano Fernández (28.01.1946 - 19.12.2000) known as Carlos Cano is a famous copla and ballad singer from Granada. After thinking about one of his chansons for the music of the day, we stumbled on a song in which the text is dedicated to Gerald Brenan and the Alpujarras. In stead of selecting a music of the day song, we decided to write this post and incorporate the lyrics.



Pasodoble Torero a Gerald Brenan

Le voy a dedicar con to mi corazón un pasodoble a Gerald Brenan.
Pasodoble de sol de clavel reventón como si un torero fuera.

Y que nadie me hable de Londón ni leches de britin ni cambrí.
Yegen, Alpujarra, Andalucía, Granada , su alegría, y rosas de Alhaurín.
Y dirle bajico, mu bajico limón, azulina y yerbagüena.
Y la casa encalá y el vino de Albondón y una sillica en la puerta.

Y a las güenas tardes tenga usted, don Gerardo Vaya animación
Mucho forastero últimamente, que no deja la gente vivir ni a Dios

¡Ay! Alpujarra, Alpujarra, Qué grandes son las estrellas
Más grandes los corazones olé y viva Gerald Brenan.
Cierro los ojos y te siento aunque de ti yo esté lejos.
¡Ay! Alpujarra, Alpujarra, ¡ay! Alpujarra

Yo te voy a cantar de lo jondo de mí y con palabras del pueblo.
Tú que fuiste Sultán de la Ciencia ilustrá. Un trovero alpujarreño
Y te voy a cantar regorviura, prenda, algarabitos y balate
Menda, capuana, jamucuco, olé y de trabuco: ¡Viva tu madre!

¡Ay! Alpujarra, Alpujarra, Qué grandes son las estrellas
Más grandes los corazones olé y viva Gerald Brenan.
Cierro los ojos y te siento aunque de ti yo esté lejos.
¡Ay! Alpujarra, Alpujarra, ¡ay! Alpujarra


Related articles:
- Sendero Local ´Gerald Brenan´, Yegen (13 december 2008)
- Ruta literaria por el sendero de Gerald Brenan (27 november 2008)

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The Alexander Music School, first 2010 concert

The Alexander Music School in Ferreirola organizes its first concert of 2010 on Saturday the 27th of March at 19.00 hours. The group Amadís Antigua will perform baroque music. The concert will take place in the Ferreirola Church (La Taha de Pitres). It is a concert in aid of the restoration fund for this church. More details can be found here.
The Alexander music school is also known for the organisation of the festival Music in the Mountains or Musica en las Montañas. We do not know the plans for 2010 yet. CD recordings of concerts of previous years form part of the Wapapura project. Within our Taha label you will find more articles on the 2009 festival.

Related articles:
- Música en las Montañas 2009, an intimate concert in Atalbéitar (08 august 2009)
- Música para Sierra Nevada in La Taha (21 august 2009)

Related links.
- Ferreirola on Turgranada tourist board

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Music of the day (archive)

INTRODUCTION:
Regular visitors of our blog may have noticed the music of the day player in the side column.
The music of the day idea was born during the long wet winter of 2010. On the one hand, we like music and play a variety of Spanish and international music in our small guest house. On the other hand, we like to put our energy in our website and blog when the weather does not really permit us to be outside and check walks, work on the land or do maintenance on the house.
Over the years, and educated by guests our collection of classic and modern Spanish music has grown. Now we enjoy searching on the internet pieces of music that we play regularly and that we think to be special. By saving the music items in this archive and giving them links to performers and authors, we think that over a period of time a nice, El Paraje archive may grow.
We have chosen to cross the Alpujarras boundaries with the subject music.

THE TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF THE ALPUJARRAS:
The traditional Alpujarras music or ´musica tradicional de la Alpujarra´ is related to harvest songs, religious songs and songs of trades. In 2010 the Festival de musica tradicional de la Alpujarra will be organized in Almócita on the 8th of August. (see article)
Some we found on internet.
- a video of the performance of Grupo Zarzamora at the XXIV Festival de musica tradicional de la Alpujarra in Rubite 14th August 2005 (with a typical long alpujarran introduction!).
- music of this slideshow with musica tradicional alpujareña on alcolea.ning.com.
- 'El Pajarillo' Interpretada por el Centro de Educación de Adultos de Mecina (from http://www.taha.es/)
- 'Romance de Galán y García' Cantado por María Pérez Salguero, de Mecina (from http://www.taha.es/)
- Guitarras en la Alpujarra of Paco Santiago Gonzalez
- poster 2006
- videos taha musica de la alpujarra 2010 with taha choir ´los compadres´and more´

THE ARCHIVE:
play : Enrique Morente: Solea de la ciencia - flamenco 
play : Michel Camilo y Tomatito: rom within - piano guitar jazz 
play : Pancho Cespedes: vida loca - ballad 
play : Miguel Poveda: buenas intenciones - flamenco 
play : Niño Josele : when I fall in love - (acc. jazz guitar)
play : Estopa and Rosario : run run - popular 
play : Malú:  Diles - popular 
play : Performer unknown:  Danza espanola oriental Enrique Granados - classical piano 
play : Amaral : El universo sobre mi - popular 
play : Ismael Serrano : Ya nada es lo que era - ballad 
play : Nina Pastori : Ave Maria - 
play : Niño Josele : waltz for debby - (acc. jazz guitar)
play : Pata Negra : blues de los niños - (popular)
play : Rosana : Tormenta de arena - (popular) (songtext)
play : Manuel de Falla : danza del fuego - (classical music) (video1) (video2)
play : Nenan Daconte : tenia tanto que darte - (popular) (video)
play : Pepe Habichuela : Mi tierra - (flamenco guitar)
play : Tomatito : Dulce Manantial - (flamenco guitar with ´palmas´)
play : Diego el Cigala y Bebo Valdés: Lagimas Negras - (cuban flamenco fusion )
play : Anouar Brahem - Les Jardins de Ziryab - (modern arab lute )
play : Paco Peña y - Eduardo Falu - Danza cordobesa - (Spanish guitar)
play : Pablo y Manu - You had a bad day - (OT 2008 popular)
play : Montse Cortés and Vicente Amigo - Oda a la guitarra - (flamenco)
play : Paco Santiago Gonzalez - Choro de la Alpujarra - (guitar)
play : Anna Belén y Juan Valerrama - Envidia - (ballad)
play : Andres Segovia - Asturias (Isaac Albéniz) (classic spanish guitar)
play : Camarón de la isla y Paco de Lucia - Bulerias (flamenco)
play : Virginia Maestro - Lunas Rotas (ballad)
play : Alex Ubago - No te rindes (popular)
play : Eduardo Paniagua- Fiesta de Santa María (medieval)
play : Pasión Vega- Maria se bebe de las calles (ballad)
play : Sergio Dalma - No me digas que no (popular)
play : El Lebrijano with Orquestra Arabigo Andaluza (CD Casablanca)- Ay por dios (arabo - andalusian)
play : Narciso Yepes (orchestra unknown) - Concierto de Aranjuez (adagio) - composer: Joaquin Rodrigo (classical music) (see video)
play : Sabina - Y nos dieron las diez (popular ranchera)
play : Lola Flores - Ay, pena, penita pena (copla) (see video ! )
play : Gerardo Nuñez - A la Nana (lullaby) (non traditional flamenco guitar)
play : Miguel Poveda and Mariza - meu fado (fado -flamenco duet from the film Fado of Carlos Saura)
play : John Williams - recuerdo de la Alhambra, composer:Tárrega (classic Spanish guitar)
play : Chambao - ahí estas tú (popular) (more on listengo)
play : Rosana - el talismán (popular) (more on listengo)
play : Norbert Kraft - Sevilla, composer: Isaac Albéniz, (classical Spanish guitar)
play : Vicente Amigo - ciudad de las ideas (flamenco guitar) (see video on this blog) (more on listengo)

Related articles:
- Carlos Cano - Pasodoble Torero a Gerald Brenan
- Vicente Amigo guitarist
- Bebo y Cigala

Related links:
- The Alexander Music School in Ferreirola Alpujarras
- Guitarras en la Alpujarra - Paco Santiago Gonzalez
- Discografía Alpujarreña
- Ravenna Flamenco - a multimedia magazine for the anglophone flamenco guitar aficionado
- The flamenco world

related keywords: musica, muziek, musique, musik

Cafe-piano-bar Cueva de Mora Luna

"La Cueva de Mora Luna" is a small café piano bar in the village of Mecina in the Taha valley.
In a relaxed and casual atmosphere, the cheerful owner Carlos Anibal di Palma Acuña, serves drinks as well as nice food amongst which a wide variety of salads and pizza´s. It is situated along the road that connects Mecina Fondales and Ferreirola. There is a small terace with nice views over the Sierra de Mecina. Carlose´s place is often filled with life music, and whenever a musician knows how to play a tango, the Argentine host will join in with a song.
It is an excellent place to stop for lunch while doing one of our Taha walks.

Opening hours are from 12.00 - 24.00 hours in summer and 12.00 - 17.00 hours in winter.
Mondays closed.
telephone: 958 765202
montebaires@yahoo.es



Related links:
- videos of performances on Youtube

related keywords: musica, muziek, musique, musik, comer y beber, eten en drinken, manger et boir, essen und trinken

Música para Sierra Nevada in La Taha

Throughout the year 2009, different exhibitions and activities are organised to commemorate the XX ´Aniversario de la Ley de Espacios Naturales Protegidos de Andalucía´. We can find the programme for this on the website of the Junta de Andalucía. ´Música en las Montañas´ forms part of the festivities organized by the Parque Natural y Nacional de Sierra Nevada. For this important event, a choir was formed which gave a concert last night on the church square of Pitres. Apart from a performance of the choir with an orchestra, there were recitals of chamber music with cello and piano. Cat Jary, initiator of the concerts in the Alpujarras, played the cello with her former music teacher Bernard Gregor-Smith, pianist Yolande Wrigley and the talented son of this couple Ben Gregor-Smith. This quartet gave a beautiful recital of chamber music on the threshing floor of Capilerilla and later on in the evening on the Plaza de la Iglesia in Pitres. It is quite something that professional musicians that are used to playing in world-famous concert halls, are prepared to play in the open air on an ´era´ in the Alpujarras.
Although tonight is the last evening of the special concerts of ´Música para Sierra Nevada´, the programme ´Música en las Montañas´ continues with concerts on the 4th and 5th of September, the 31st of October and the 1st of November.

Música en las Montañas 2009, an intimate concert in Atalbéitar

Yesterday we assisted one of the concerts of the programme Música en las Montañas. On the Plaza de Atalbéitar, Boris played the violin and clarinet and Frank the accordeon. They played, amongst others, klezmer - traditional jewish folk music - and Argentinian tangos. They created with their music a fairy-tale athmosphere on the village square of this tiny little village. Tonight they will play at 22.00 hours in the larger town of Pitres which we can see on the programme that the Alexander Music School recenlty published on their website. On Youtube you can see a video of their performance in 2008 in Ferreirola with the same intimate atmosphere.

Festival de jazz and blues in Busquístar

For the fifth time, a jazz and blues festival is organised in Busquístar.
Concerts are given at the ´patio de las escuelas´ and they start at 22.30 hours.
This is the programme of the three nights:
Tuesday 11th of August: Granada Jazz Ensemble
Wednesday 12th of August: Domestic jazz collective
Thursday the 13th of August: Paul Stocker & La Dubi Dubi Band

Música en las montañas, summer music festival in the Alpujarra

´Musica en la Montañas´ is a succesful cultural initiative in the Alpujarra. This is the fifth summer that this festival of classical and folkloric music is organised. Like in former years, there will be a concerts on ´eras´ (threshing floors) and village squares, in churches and in the building of the Alexander Music School (AMS) in Ferreirola. Cat Jary, resident director of this music school started it all up. She has devised an interesting and varied programme of activities throughout the year and can now count on the cooperation of the town hall of La Taha and the Junta de Andalucía.
The latest addition to the activities is Alpujarra R-3, a mountain restoration project. The project works with local Alpujarran farmers and teams of volunteers to restore the ancient Moorish irrigation systems and rebuild dry stone walls which support terraces, so that once again those terraces can be cultivated. The Alexander Music Scool, in collaboration with the local government and Wapapura produced their first CD, including the Choir of the Taha and many concerts of the Music in the Mountains programme. In the newspaper article ´Música en las Montañas de la Alpujarra, fuente de vida para la tierra´ published in the Ideal the seventeenth of June, more information on this latest project can be found.
General information on the the different initiatives can be found on the website of the Alexander Music School. Unfortunately, the programma of this year´s festival has not been published yet on this website. We were therefore glad that we found the programme in the brochure ´Acércate a Sierra Nevada´, a publication of the Consejería de Medio Ambiente of the Junta de Andalucía. We also came across the programme ´Musíca en las Montañas´ julio-noviembre 2009 on the blog of Antonio J. Puerta of Cortijo Puerta in Órgiva.

Video Berchules

We found this artistic video taken in and around Bérchules on a quiet February morning 2009. It is made by Alvaro Bernal Alejandre and can be found on Vimeo. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but only artists are able to reproduce their experience for others to relive.

The music is of Vicente Amigo of his cd Vivencias Imaginadas.

Festival de música tradicional de la Alpujarra

On Sunday the 10th of August 2008 the XXVII edition of the festival of traditional music of the Alpujarras is celebrated in Alboloduy.

Related links:
- Festival de Música Tradicional de la Alpujarra (wiki pedia)