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The delegation of the Foundation Cante de las Minas is already in China's capital, Tokyo, where Japanese Contests Festival for flamenco artists from tomorrow, Friday, August 22, will be held for the first time, and up to Sunday 24.
The International Festival del Cante de las Minas de La Union is already in Japan.
In the hands of "Las Minas Flamenco Tour", the delegation of the Foundation Cante de las Minas has landed in Tokyo, the capital, which will host the celebration for the first time outside the borders of Spain, contests Dance, Guitar and Singing.
The expedition up the Foundation Coordinator Cante de las Minas, Manuel José Navarro Jiménez, and the same coach, Juan Carlos Albaladejo Montoro and the writer, journalist, National Prize of Flamenco and regular contributor to the Festival, Juan Vergillos together with Mariko Ogura, Japanese journalist and Hispanic musical producer, specializing in the field of flamenco music.
All are part of a mixed jury, together with outstanding Japanese experts provided by the Nippon Association of Flamenco (ANIF), institution that has organized this qualifiers Cante de las Minas.
ANIF was created in 1990, and today has become Japan's leading institution dedicated to the study, teaching and dissemination of flamenco.
The event will be held at the Theatre Tokyo Nakano Zero Hall throughout the days of 22, 23 and 24 August, ie, from Friday morning until Sunday.
Saturday will be the official presentation of the Festival del Cante de las Minas in Japan, in a ceremony that will feature special performances, guest artist, guitarist, musician and composer Spanish Cañizares, winning prestigious awards in our country, as the "National Guitar Award 1982" and "Music Award 2008".
Alongside Cañizares also perform at the gala official presentation, two of the previous winners of the contest organized ANIF in Japan every year: the singing act Taka Ishizuka, and dancing Shiro Ijuin, two professional flamenco in " Country of the Rising Sun ".
The expectation has raised the Spanish celebration event has led have been enrolled in the same over a hundred of Japanese artists.
The main attraction for the same lies, in addition to obtaining the corresponding trophies that the winners of the Japanese edition will also achieve its automatic pass to the final series of the next edition of the Festival del Cante de las Minas in our country, to be held in August 2015 in Murcia town of La Union.
The Executive Chairman of the Cante Foundation Mines and Mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, has sent a message of support to the jury of the competitions, and has stressed that "this initiative one of the major objectives with which he was born is fulfilled internationalization project Las Minas Flamenco Tour: lead mining competition to Japan's third largest economy in the world and certainly the country, after Spain, plus our quintessential music is appreciated. "
Barnabas also wanted to thank explicitly the strong support of all sponsors, both in Japan and in our nation, make it possible for this event, especially highlighting the role played in this regard by Turespaña and Las Minas Flamenco Tour occurs, real architects of this initiative.
Finally, the unionense mayor has emphasized the important tourist projection that will mean for your area, for the Region of Murcia Spain and to the development of this Festival, and which have already applied for accreditation the most important Japanese media truly concerned about the fact that the Festival del Cante de las Minas will select their most outstanding flamenco values ​​next year to compete against the best in La Union.
Source: Agencias
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