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The Director General for Cultural Promotion, Antonio Martínez, with the mayor of La Union and chairman of the Festival Internacional del Cante de Las Minas, Francisco Bernabé, today unveiled a preview of the 49 th edition of that festival, to be held from 6 to 15 August.
"The strength of this festival is supported not only by the public, but also by experts, is undoubtedly one of the most important festivals of the world," said Martinez.
In addition, "has undoubtedly artistic and cultural value to the region and, of course, a great tourist value," he said.
Among the innovations for this year, the main one is a tribute to Vicente Amigo, a famous guitarist from Cordoba, winner in 1988 of mining Bordon, first prize Flamenco Guitar Cante de las Minas.
In addition, the Festival will give the artist his highest honor: the Golden Castillete
Another of the most notable is the addition of a new event, the first competition 'Instrumentalist Flamenco', which will accommodate all types of instrumental specialties, except for the flamenco guitar, which already has its own reward.
The construction of this new competition, named 'The Reef', is 7,000 euros for first prize and 3,500 for the second.
In addition, the festival already has three major awards: the Mining Lamp, trophy trophy guitar and dance.
The targeted for competitive rounds of the festival will this year in eight provincial capitals: Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Salamanca, Valladolid, Murcia, Albacete and Caceres.
Another novelty is the web www.fundacioncantedelasminas.org that after amendment has received in the last six months more than 93,000 visitors from five continents.
It is divided into six sections: Foundation, XLIX Festival, Information and Tourism of La Union, History of the Festival (posters, pictures, videos, publications), registration and ticket sales contests.
The site becomes an archive of the festival, publications, audiovisual, and all information that has been published in one form or another, to be a "veritable encyclopaedia of flamenco", so the difference from the pages of other events.
In addition, the festival will live through the page, the development of the three semi-finals of the singing contest, Guitar, Flamenco Dance and Instrumentalist of the next edition.
Regarding the project of creating the Foundation of the Festival, as indicated by the Director General for Cultural Promotion, "from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism have met all the paperwork to formalize the foundation, but still waiting for response from the Ministry, and we understand that will produce a certain delay, to the extent that there has been a change in government. "And he said that" in any event, the Foundation will move forward with the City Council, the Ministry and the Community. "
Source: CARM
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