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News MARINA HEREDIA PRESENTS "Cancionero del Sacromonte" (Sacromonte Songbook)Nestling on the brow of the Monte Sacro (Sacred Mount), the abbey has served as a cultural bastion for Granada in the widest possible sense for many centuries. Beneath, the township spreads like a delta emerging from both sides of Valparaíso: on one slope, the Alhambra Palace; facing it, the Sacromonte neighbourhood, once the nerve centre and heart of flamenco in the ancient Nazarí city. It would be neigh-on impossible to imagine a more perfect setting – physically, socially and emotionally – to bring a reflection on the Sacromonte soul, which this Songbook aims to do, to the stage.From this perennial and privileged observatory, the singer Marina Heredia, supported by an exceptional line-up of personalities from diverse artistic disciplines, will perform a unique show of our times. We will see an ephemeral and eternal presentation of eras both past and present, of tradition and wisdom, an inheritance of Christians, Moors and Gypsies, breathtakingly human musical creations of warmth, crystallized by the diverse cultures, which have flowered from the very skirts of the Sacromonte.It is of course inevitable that Flamenco should be both the unifying element and the cornerstone of the Sacromonte Songbook. In the same way, the Spanish composers Falla and Barrio turned to the guitar to express a deep love of flamenco, which inspired some of their most appreciated pieces, elaborating paths of fantasy, down which we can be led by the wise precept that encouraged the work of Manuel de Falla: not to emulate, but to create. Passages from La vida Breve, Mañanitas granadinas or Tango de Angelita appear with purism, through the same artistic feeling of the guitarists that we appreciate today, and an undoubted echo of flamenco, which inspired the conception of the composers’ work.Neither does the presence of poetry need any justifying, given the present surroundings. Lorca wrote many exquisite lines of poetry on an art that would captivate him to the deepest realms of his self, and it seems perfectly fitting that the two priceless poems from the anthology Poema del Cante Jondo will serve as ambassadors to this cordial evening in store for us. As you can see, this adventure is a daring one, and therefore a passionate one. It is a magic voyage through the masterly singing styles, leaving their unforgettable footprints, of illustrious singers such as Juanillo de Gitano or Tía Marina Habichuela. Furthermore, the flamenco tale is mounted on memories of masters of other arts, indebted to flamenco, and in turn with those who today are settling their debt of indelible gratitude to flamenco.SUNDAY 5th JULY 2230 THE SACROMONTE ABBEY
MARINA HEREDIA PRESENTS HER NEW SHOW DE GRANÁ, HAND IN HAND WITH HABICHUELAThe premier will take place in Seville to launch the 9th cycle of Flamenco Thurdays sponsored by Cajasol Foundation.Thursday, 23rd October at Sala Joaquín TurinaA classical court recital, hand in hand between two of the greatest artists of their genre. The voice of Marina Heredia and the guitar of Pepe Habichuela, without embellishment. Soleás, Alegrías, Tangos... pure flamenco, the very essence of Granada. This is De Graná, the new show by the young, yet already indispensable, Marina Heredia and the master guitarist Habichuela. "I wanted to make a pure concert, get back to the roots, with no added artificial extras, where the voice and the guitar were the only elements. I know it is risky, but I think it is Flamenco’s due. De Graná is like opening a box of memories. Going back to what I heard as a child in the Albaicín and to give something back for all that I have learnt.” "Sharing the stage with Pepe Habichuela is both a luxury and an honour", explains Marina. "He is one of the masters who has best taught flamenco to the youth of my generation. He’s from Granada, like myself. Nobody knows the ancient styles of our home land as he does, and at the same time he’s one of the most modern flamenco interpreters that I know." Marina’s first self-produced recording La voz del agua, was chosen on the internet as the best flamenco record of the year, but she doesn’t agree. This is the motive of the new show which will go on tour not only in Spain but also abroad from 23rd October. Marina is going to alternate this show with the one that has given its name to her album.Habichuela, a pioneering master in a fusion that doesn’t forget its roots. A habitual collaborator with Morente in the 70’s, Pepe Habichuela has always been a pioneer. He was also the first flamenco artist to be recorded on the independent Nuevos Medios label, who are going to release a flamenco album called A Mandeli where Carles Benavent will play his bass accompanying the guitar of Habichuela. A descendent of the great flamenco dynasties who has continued the line in his sons and nephews – member of the group Ketama, or Amador and José Soto Sorderita, - Habichuela is the precursor of flamenco fusion, without ever losing his roots. His most recent work is a record along these lines called Yerba Güena, a meeting between flamenco and the classical music of India.
On the 11th September, the Provincial Administration of Granada announced their decision to name MARINA the favourite daughter of the province.
The provincial administration of Granada bestows these garlands on individual and institutions who have become worthy of the admiration of the people of Granada for their work and their personal valour. There is no doubt in the case of Marina Heredia, whose international merit caught the attention of the Provincial Administration. “She takes both the good name and the cultural values of Granada to stages all around the world.Her nomination is shared with a long-standing friend, Estrella Morente and other personalities such as Elisa Pérez Vera, a magistrate of the Constitutional Tribunal and other institutions such as the School of Arab Studies and Radio Granada.For Marina, "this title is a great honour and a responsibility. It is an honour because it is recognition that comes from my Granada, my homeland, and my inspiration, and a responsibility for exactly the same reason: I have always been proud to take the name of Granada around the world, but now I feel as if it is now a duty. Moreover, it gives me a special pleasure to share this garland with my friend and colleague Estrella, with whom I’ve shared many hours and a great deal of flamenco.">> El País - newspaper 3 junio >> El País - summer postcard
A dialogue between flamenco and gharnati music in a unique concert as part of Granada’s International Festival of Music and Dance.Marina Heredia from Granada along with the Moroccan Amina Alaoui bring the gipsy and the Andalusian traditions closer. This project emerged from the meeting with the School of Arab Studies.
For the first time, a flamenco singer and a performer of Arabic-Andalusian lyrical poetry will talk face to face on stage. It isn’t a fusion show, but an inter-cultural dialogue between two women in 2008, dedicated to both their own era and their past. This concert has to be the most extraordinary of the 57th edition of Granada’s International Festival of Music and Dance. Following the line of dialogue of this year’s meeting, the young flamenco singer Maina Heredia and the prestigious Arabic-Andalusian lyric performer Amina Alaoui, are going to have a musical dialogue on the stage of the Nazarí capital. The concert is a result of a research project which emerged from a meeting between the two performers in the School of Arabic Studies last year, which aims to present to the public a reunion of the two key cultures of the musical history of Spain.CON-VIVENCIAS is the synthesis that flamenco owes to the music preserved by the Moors when the gypsies settled in Granada. A thesis put forward by Manuel de Falla at the beginning of the 20th century, and today for the first time it is being explored by two women on one stage. The essence of the Andalusí tradition, in a show which highlights the common points between the purest flamenco from the Sacromonte and Gharnatí music, a mark of the musical identity of Granada during the Nazarí period.In an ever-expanding Europe, we shouldn’t forget that Spanish culture is coloured by the Mediterranean. From Algeria to Granada, this mixture is one of the bases of European culture. After Nazarí splendour and the fall of Granada, Jews, Arabs and Gypsies lived together in ghettoes where there was a fusion of, more than anything else, their cultures. This is what the programme CON-VIVENCIAS is all about. Since music cannot lie: Arabic, Gipsy, Native, African, European … music eliminates frontiers.Since the concert is already sold out, the festival will make a recording to be broadcast at a later date on large screens in the centre of Granada. “We are doing this,” said the director of the Festival, Enrique Gámez “so that a wider audience can enjoy this unique occasion of sisterhood between the Granada of the past and the Granada of today.
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Marina Heredia and Luis Eduardo Aute explore the pathways that unite poetry with flamenco in the Madrid cycle Música de los Espejos (Mirror Music)
Olivar de Castillejo - 22:00 h. - C/ Menéndez Pidal, 3 - Madrid 
Luis Eduardo Aute is without doubt one of the most emblematic poets of Spain’s recent history. He’s a highly versatile artist, composer, painter, film maker, whose poetry appears in thirteen anthologies from La matemática del espejo (1975) to Animalhito published by Siruelo (2008). Marina Heredia, heralded by the specialised press as a valuable attribute to new flamenco (she won the Andalusian Youth Prize for the Arts in 2004), is no doubt one of the great voices of contemporary flamenco. It is their passion for poetry that has brought these two artists together. On many occasions, Aute has worked with flamenco artists such as Paco de Lucía, Moraíto or José Mercé, and Marina has lent her voice to poets such as Alberti, Bergamín o Manuel Benítez Carrasco in her most recent work La voz del agua.
It only seems fitting then that Marina’s voice should sing the poetry of Luis Eduardo Aute. Furthermore, Aute is going to talk about flamenco and tell us about his experience with this ancestral art, whose roots are deeply entrenched in Spanish culture.
The tracks of La voz del agua transport us not only to Granada, but also to the source, as in the poem by Aute Volver al agua (Returning to water).
For further information on the concert: www.sumaflamenca.com
In Seville Marina Heredia presnts "La Voz del Agua", chosen on the intemet as the best flamenco record of the year.
Seville’s Teatro Central will host the voice and the art of the singer accomplished in blending modernity and the purity of flamenco. Marina Heredia, heralded by the specialised press as a valuable attribute to new flamenco (she won the Andalusian Youth Prize for the Arts in 2004), is no doubt one of the great voices of contemporary flamenco. Her deep and delicate voice fills the most classic of songs with gusts of fresh air and touches of velvet. With a modern and renewed vision, Marina jumps from guitar to piano singing the purest flamenco passion surrounded by rhythmic palm clapping or accompanied simply by the black and white ivory keys. But Marina is much more than this, and it becomes apparent when she sings a cappella. La voz del agua is her new show, patently demonstrating Marina’s own label, which brings freshness to each track of the record of the same name, her most recent work for which she won the prize BEST RECORD ON THE INTERNET. Almost 30,000 navigators from all over the world chose this album, by popular vote, through one of the popular web sites in the sector deflamenco.com. In La voz del agua, the work of renowned poets such as Alberti, Bergamín or Manuel Benítez Carrasco are brought to life with the voice of Marina accompanied by the guitar strings of José Quevedo El Bola and Luis Mariano. The self-produced album was released in 2007 and has now arrived in Seville, after a long tour, including the famous Sadler’s Wells Stage as part of the London Flamenco Festival. The specialized press has already given Marina a preferential place … “her distinctive voice throws echoes which get inside you without you realising it. Whether it be a Taranto or a rumba, a song or a tango, everything she touches lives in that dark corner of beauty which only a few know how to reach … At last Marina is here in Seville … She has come to light our paths, to make us believe in romanticism once again, to trust in quality, to enjoy the craft purely and simply …” wrote the journalist Miguel Mora on the release of the album to the media. Another musical expert from styles distant from flamenco such as the classical composer Luis Cobos confirm that “Marina is the synthesis of tradition and modernity in the purity of flamenco. She is beauty in both sound and vision. She is pure stagecraft.” For Marina, this Seville presentation is, as a bullfighter would say, “joins confirmation with the alternative ... Seville is a fundamental place and the public of Seville has a great understanding of flamenco, for which it gives me a special pleasure to present my record there just before the Seville Festival. It is an important moment and a great responsibility, but I am sure that in Seville they will know how to appreciate this work in which I have invested both effort and illusion”. After Seville, Marina is to move on to Madrid to continue her tour. For more information and interviews: Relabel Comunicación - 91.435.68.08 - prensa@relabel.net
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"LA VOZ DEL AGUA" by the singer Marina Heredia, chosen on the internet as the best flamenco record of the year.
 Almost 30,000 navigators from all over the world chose this album by the young artist Marina Heredia, by popular vote, through one of the popular web sites in the sector deflamenco.com.
La voz del agua is a refreshing work full of modernity and the works of renowned poets such as Alberti, Bergamín or Manuel Benítez Carrasco are brought to life with the voice of Marina accompanied by the guitar strings of José Quevedo El Bola and Luis Mariano. The self-produced album was released in 2007.
Marina Heredia, heralded by the specialised press as a valuable attribute to new flamenco (she won the Andalusian Youth Prize for the Arts in 2004), is no doubt one of the great voices of contemporary flamenco. Her deep and delicate voice fills the most classic of songs with gusts of fresh air and touches of velvet. With a modern and renewed vision, Marina jumps from guitar to piano singing the purest flamenco passion surrounded by the rhythm of palm clapping or accompanied simply by the black and white ivory keys. But Marina is much more than this, and it becomes apparent when she sings a cappella.
The specialized press has already given Marina a preferential place … “her distinctive voice throws echoes which get inside you without you realising it. Whether it be a Taranto or a rumba, a song or a tango, everything she touches lives in that dark corner of beauty which only a few know how to reach … At last Marina is here … She has come to light our paths, to make us believe in romanticism once again, to trust in quality, to enjoy the craft purely and simply …” wrote the journalist Miguel Mora of El Pais on the release of the album to the media. Another musical expert from styles distant from flamenco such as the classical composer Luis Cobos confirms that “Marina is the synthesis of tradition and modernity in the purity of flamenco. She is beauty in both sound and vision. She is pure stagecraft.”
According to the website deflamenco.com, 65% of the votes were received through the Spanish version and 35% from the English version. The countries which contributed the most were the United States, France, Mexico, Italy, Canada and Japan, although votes were received from 46 different countries.
Marina Heredia hopes to win the British vote in the following edition because she is about to perform La voz del agua on stage at the prestigious Sadler’s Wells Theatre as part of the London Flamenco Festival.
Marina Heredia will accept the title bestowed on her in Madrid only days later in an encounter where the flamenco world will congregate at the Sala Colonial in Madrid.
For Marina, this prize is very important “because it has been awarded by the public. Anonymous people who love flamenco, who know what they are listening to and are without conditioning. It is an absolutely democratic prize and one that has been awarded from the heart … The effort of being your own producer is enormous, but this recognition has made it all worth while. ¡Go for it!"
For more information and interviews:
Relabel Comunicación – (+34) 914 356 808 - prensa@relabel.net
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Tel (+34) 914 356 537 · (+34) 914 356 808 · Fax (+34) 914 357 555
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