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54 Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas end with the end of the competitions (15/08/2014)

The jury will fail tomorrow's winners contests this year in the categories of song, dance, and Flamenco guitar instrumentalist.

Among the 17 awards will be distributed stand Mining Lamp, Miner's Refrain, the Desplante and Philo

After three days of semifinals which involved a total of 28 contestants on Saturday, August 16, the Cathedral of Cante will become the stage where a privileged few will compete for Mining Lamp in the form of singing, Bordon Mining for the guitarist, Desplante for the dancer, and the reef in flamenco mode instrumentalist.

In total participated in the semifinals four Flemish musicians, three guitarists six dancers and singers fifteen.

After the last semifinal stage, which will take place tonight from 22:00 hours, the jury will decide who are selected to participate in the final.

Over its members bear the hard task of choosing the finalists and, among these, the final winners.

This year's jury is comprised Blanca Avila Molina, "White King" dancer and choreographer Cordoba, "National Flamenco Award";

José Manuel Gamboa, writer, lecturer and flamingo stirrer;

Ramón Díaz Soler, Flemish researcher and author of several books on the subject;

Pujante Antonio Parra, writer, journalist and flamenco;

and Joseph Cros Zaplana, an expert on mining songs and son of the great Pencho Cros, three times winner of the Mining Lamp this festival.

The secretary of the Jury is Antonio Gomez Perez, professor of Literature in Secondary Education, also a great lover of flamenco.

The Festival provides for the delivery of a total of 17 awards, divided into each of the four modes.

Specifically, to sing, the highest award is the "Mining Lamp", which will be better for those who run the mining and at least one or more other styles of mining songs, good group of Malaga, Granada, Cordoba and Huelva, or good, bajoandaluces Cantes.

The "Mining Lamp" has a cash prize of 15,000 euros.

Prizes for each of the mining songs are also distributed, ie mining prize, that of tarantas that of Cartagena and Murcia and in other mining songs (tarantos, levantica, miners fandango ...).

A second group are the awards for the songs of Malaga, Granada, Cordoba and Huelva, comprising the awards and the award malagueñas other songs (granaínas, fandango of Granada, Huelva and Lucena, verdiales, rondeñas, jaberas, jabegotes ).

Another group is comprised of the Bajoandaluces Cantes including the award for Tonás, siguiriyas, light and highland, the award for Soleares, bulerías soleá, rods and poles, and the prize bulerías cantiñas, tangos, thongs, peteneras , farrucas, personal fandango.

Finally, there is also a special prize for young singers (under 25 years).

In Guitar mode, two awards will be distributed, the first who takes up the trophy "Bordon Miner" worth 6,000 euros.

As for the dancing, there will be two awards, the first of which the "uprooting" of 9,000 euros cash prize.

Finally, in the form of Flamenco instrumentalist, two awards will be handed out, and the first place winner will get known as "reef", with another 6,000 euros.

As for the Cultural Agenda, will be completed with the closing, at 13.00 hours, the "V Gastronomic Flamenco" in bars and restaurants Mining City, and 14:00 hours of the "Gastronomic Days II Cante mine and El Corte Ingles "in the restaurant" El Corte Inglés "of Cartagena.

In the afternoon, at 20:15 hours, will take place in the Plaza Joaquín Costa's "Homage to Paco de Lucia and Rafael Santa Cruz", with the great public Cajoneada cajoneros directed by Guillermo García "El Guille", Antonio Enrique Fernández "Wito" and Miguel Angel Orengo, and guitarists Rosendo Fernandez, Antonio Muñoz, Juan Martinez and Francisco Tornero.

Then, in the Avenida del Flamenco "Paco de Lucía Lamp" will be found to round tribute to great guitarist.

Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión

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