La Peña Flamenca "Golden Grape" Jumilla, Cultural Association is celebrating the 20th anniversary this week Flamenco Festival since 1994 developed in the city, such as enhancement of this art and popular culture important part of Jumilla.
After the inauguration Wednesday of the photo exhibition where two decades of experience in the Festival, which will run throughout the month of May at the Museum of Ethnography and Natural Sciences Jerónimo Molina, took place yesterday in the collected Cajamurcia Cultural Hall, one of the most anticipated events of the Association, the XX Cry "Sing, touch, and poetry."
Col. MADOC, Julián García Tomás Sánchez, BA in History from the University of Zaragoza, Philosophy in the military field, this time was in charge of making the opening speech, in which he had a remarkable influx of public.
In a detailed tour of the flamenco art, his clubs, history and popular tradition, the preacher stopped in a special way, in the intimate link between the flamenco with the bull, and as both represent the depths of feeling Spanish, sharing roots, and sometimes weaving styles, to become a symbol of the Spanish mating.
María Dolores Fernández, Councillor for Culture, wanted to thank once again the commitment the Peña Flamenca "Golden Grape" demonstrates the Flemish culture and emphasized pride involved for Jumilla, the Flamenco Festival reaches its 20th anniversary, "20 years demonstrating that flamenco is part of the popular culture. "
The words of the preacher were intertwined with the guitar playing and singing of the various guest artists to the Festival in a significant prelude to what will be the event on Saturday at the Teatro Vico.
Morilito de Córdoba, Enrique Ordóñez, Lolo de la Encarnación, Charo Street, Toni Barroso, Vico David Sánchez, Araceli Ruiz, Jacob Carmen and teacher Arrebola, were responsible put flamenco on stage feeling Cajamurcia, thus uniting form letters with the cante jondo, a perfect allegory to flamenco.
The event ended with the presentation of distinctive invited participants, and remember the preacher, as a token of appreciation for their passage through the events framed within the 20th Anniversary of the Festival Flamenco "Jumilla Grape Gold".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla