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The painter Eduardo Arroyo made ​​the poster and poet and journalist Antonio Lucas will be the harbinger of this edition
The Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Region of Murcia, Pedro Alberto Cruz, and our mayor and chairman of the executive committee of the Foundation Cante de las Minas, Francisco Bernabé, have given this morning in Murcia kick off to the fifty-third International Festival del Cante de las Minas, to be held in La Union next August, between 1 and 10.
This edition of the event will be dedicated to Miguel Poveda, in order to commemorate this year of 2013 the twentieth anniversary of his great victory in La Union, which occurred in 1993.
Since then, Poveda, the undisputed number one today flamenco has developed a brilliant career, which has always been advocacy gala of La Union, our Festival and our songs.
Therefore, besides the tribute and flamenco, the singer is also named adopted son of the mining town on the occasion of his visit next August.
Both leaders have announced that next Friday 15 February open enrollment deadlines for prestigious contests of song, guitar, flamenco dancing and instrumentalist organizes the event, the largest in the world according to the widely agrees majority of critics and audiences demanding.
The deadlines will be open until April 30 for those artists who wish to fight to win the Mining Lamp, the beading, the rudeness or Philo, respectively.
It will also be open on the same date the deadline for opting Pencho Cros Award, in the fourteenth edition of the International Cultural Event Call, and distinguish the best work over the past year in connection with the flamenco the fields of poetry, prose, journalism, art, discography, research and gastronomy.
The information on the rules and enrollment procedures are available to all stakeholders in the Foundation web Cante de las Minas, http://www.fundacioncantedelasminas.org.
The poster of the Festival LIII borne by the prestigious painter Eduardo Arroyo, undoubtedly one of the most important and renowned contemporary Spanish artists, whose magnificent works hang on the walls of museums and major art collections in the world.
Winner of National Art and National Graphic Arts Award, Arroyo becomes, in its own right, another member of that illustrious list of the most illustrious representatives of the arts who donated one of his works for this between the end and found names like de Tapies, Chillida, Canogar, Barceló, Saura, Valdés, Chirino, Gordillo, Lucas and many others.
On the other hand, the preacher of this year will be the young poet and journalist Antonio Lucas, one of the most brilliant and promising literary personalities with which our country today.
Lucas, writer and editor of El Mundo culture, is also known and admired for its extraordinary poetic work that has earned him win the awards of major poetry competitions in Spain, as the Critical Eye Award National Radio Spain, the International Prize Melilla or Adonais Prize, among others.
Finally, Barnabas has announced that next March will be announced the winners with Castilletes Gold, the Gold Carbide and Catedral del Cante, institutional awards event to recognize and distinguish the work of individuals, organizations and nations for Spanish culture, the best flamenco and our Festival.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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