Mientras que la comunidad de Madrid lanza su primer festival de guitarra flamenca en honor a Ramón Montoya (1879-1949) considerado el primer concertista flamenco, la ciudad de Nueva York se prepara a rendir doble homenaje a Paco de Lucía en el 10° aniversario de su desaparición (1947-2014).
Así el genio de Algeciras tendrá su tributo del 20 al 24 de febrero en el Carnegie Hall, a través de su Fundación y del 1 al 17 de marzo en el New York City Center, en el marco del XXIII Flamenco Festival de NY.
En Madrid, Teatros del Canal presenta del 30 de abril al 4 de mayo, la primera edición de una muestra de guitarra flamenca, sin citar la gran aportación del legado de Paco de Lucía.
Mientras, el Teatro Real se apresuraba con el estreno de ‘Vuela’ de Sara Baras el 1 y 2 de febrero, obra que también se presentará en el festival de Jerez el 23 y 24 de febrero, en honor a los diez años sin Paco.
La también gaditana Naike Ponce va a dar el mismo día 25 de este mes, un especial Paco de Lucía junto a un nutrido grupo de mujeres artistas en la Sala Villanos del distrito de La Arganzuela en Madrid.
En Bogotá, Colombia, es el turno del guitarrista Antonio Rey, ganador de un latin Grammy, de rendir homenaje en el Teatro Colsubsidio, con una serie de espectáculos que celebrarán la vida y obra de este icono del flamenco.
Aquel 25 de febrero de 2014, la muerte sorprendía al guitarrista de 66 años en Playa del Carmen, México y a sus miles de admiradores de todo el mundo y de todas las edades.
Su legado sigue vivo y fascinando, tanto a jóvenes como a mayores, fuera como dentro del flamenco.
Paco de Lucía es uno de los dioses del flamenco cuyo magnetismo atrae a músicos de cualquier disciplina. Pero su compleja personalidad y su carácter llenos de matices y angustias, no es conocido del gran público, explica en una entrevista a EFE, el periodista César Suárez, autor de su reciente biografía.
Con Paco lo primero que llama la atención es su ansiedad, su carácter a veces depresivo, pavorosamente perfeccionista, que le impedía disfrutar de una música que, todos menos él, veían como una genialidad. Es una insatisfacción que él nunca consiguió superar, explica el periodista.
La figura y obra de Paco de Lucía es el eje del XXIII Flamenco Festival de Nueva York que espera doblar su nivel de ocupación respecto a la pasada edición, esperando recaudar unos 2.200.00 euros por la venta de entradas.
La edición 2024 del festival se extiende a 8 ciudades nortamericanas en las que se presentan un total de 44 representaciones con 230 artistas en 21 espacios diferentes.
Flamenco festival ha solicitado a Manuel Liñán, Olga Pericet y Rubén Olmo; Tomatito, Rycardo Moreno, Alejandro Hurtado, Raúl Cantizano, Rycardo Moreno, Antonia Jiménez, Alejandro Hurtado y David de Arahal; Israel Fernández e Inma La Carbonera y los músicos Sergio de Lope, Andrés Barrios y Pedro Jiménez entre otros, que rindan homenaje al músico interpretando alguno de sus temas.
Lo habitual es que agotemos la mayoría de los espectáculos, añadió Miguel Marín, su director.
Según Marta Carrasco del ABC de Sevilla, la consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deportes de Andalucía patrocina con 1.700.000 euros el homenaje a Paco de Lucía en Nueva York.
El festival Paco de Lucía Legacy que abre en Carnegie Hall presenta a : Karime Amaya, Farru y Farruquito; AlDiMeola, Josemi Carmona, Yerai Cortés, Antonio Rey, Rafael Riqueni, Niño Josele, JM.Bandera y Pepe Habichuela; Rubén Blades, Diego El Cigala, Duquende, Chonchi Heredia, Salif Keita, Carmen Linares, José Mercé, Sílvia Pérez Cruz y Makarines; Carles Benavent, Alain Pérez, Javier Colina, Rubem Dantas, Tino Di Geraldo e Israel Suárez ‘Piraña’, Madou Diabaté, Chano Domínguez, Jorge Pardo, Nesrine Belmokh y Antonio Serrano entre otros.
Y por si fuera poco, además de rendirles homenajes a Paco de Lucía y a Ramón Montoya, se le conmemora el centenario a Vicente Espinel, inventor de la guitarra española.
Rubén Blades, Carmen Linares o José Mercé rendirán homenaje a Paco de Lucía en Nueva York
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NYC is hosting an extraordinary festival from February 20 to 24 to pay tribute to legendary guitarist, Paco de Lucia. The festival will take place in various location around NYC including Carnegie Hall, NYU, Instituto Cervantes, Symphony Space and more. The monumental event will feature over 30 artists, all coming together to honor the renowned Paco de Lucia, who passed on February 25, 2014.
Paco de Lucia is regarded as the master of flamenco guitar by many of those who took up the art form. This city-wide event, The Paco de Lucia Legacy Festival will demonstrate that flamenco is alive and as influential as ever. The festival will kick off with a medley of music at Carnegie Hall and wrap up five days later with a screening of the movie, “La busqueda” and a concert of honor.
Performers: Karime Amaya, Farru and Farruquito (dancers); Al Di Meola, Josemi Carmona, Yerai Cortés, Antonio Rey, Rafael Riqueni, Niño Josele, J.M.Bandera and Pepe Habichuela (guitarists); Rubén Blades, Diego ‘El Cigala’, Duquende, Chonchi Heredia, Salif Keita, Carmen Linares, José Mercé, Sílvia Pérez Cruz and Makarines (vocalists), Carles Benavent (bass), Alain Pérez (bass), Javier Colina (double bass), Rubem Dantas, Tino Di Geraldo and Israel Suárez ‘Piraña’ (percussion), Madou Diabaté (kora), Chano Domínguez (piano), Jorge Pardo (flute), Nesrine Belmokh (voice + cello), harmonica by Antonio Serrano (harmonica), and more.
fuente: https://nysmusic.com/2024/02/01/the-paco-de-lucia-legacy-nys-greatest-flamenco-tribute-is-here/
JORGE PARDO ON PACO DE LUCIA LEGACY’S, by Leo Sidran
Paco de Lucia was considered by many to be the greatest flamenco guitarist who ever lived. He shaped the sound of contemporary flamenco. He expanded the possibilities of the music, bringing jazz and classical elements into it and collaborating with artists from around the world
Paco died at age 66 in 2014. In this, the 10th anniversary of his death a major tribute to his influence and innovations is being held in New York City. The celebration is called Paco de Lucia Legacy and is taking place over five days and nights, bringing eight events, and 33 artists to Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Instituto Cervantes and Symphony Space. The aim is not only to celebrate the man’s life but to demonstrate how his work – beginning in a small Spanish town—came to transcend all musical borders, and some physical ones as well.
From the very beginning, music and family were one thing for Paco. He was mentored by his guitar player father, and by his older brother Ramon. And he recorded his first album Los chiquitos de algeciras with his other brother, Pepe, when he was just 14 years old.
As his career unfolded, he built relationships with musicians that mirrored the intimacy and intensity of family. Saxophonist and flutist Jorge Pardo, who is among artists who are traveling from Spain to New York this week, told me, “For me Paco was not just a musician, he was an older brother.”
At the same time, like the rest of his generation, he was desperate to enter, and create, a new world.
Paco was an explorer. Bringing the outside worlds of jazz and classical music to the deep folk tradition of flamenco music Paco de Lucia repositioned Spain on the world stage and cast a new light on its future.
But Paco himself didn’t seem to think in those terms. He was just doing the next thing in front of him. So, for example, when he asked flute player Jorge Pardo to join him in the studio one day, he wasn’t necessarily setting out to make history or define an era. He just needed a new arrangement for his record.
Pardo remembers, “We were at the same record label. We knew each other from there. One afternoon we were having some dinner at the cafeteria in the studios, and we were rehearsing in one studio and Paco was recording his album, Paco De Lucia Plays Manuel de Falla. So he was there, and said how you are doing, this and that. And then he said, oh, listen, what are you doing this afternoon? I said, well, we are in the studio, at the studio rehearsing. Would you come with me and try to improvise some arrangement? I said, yeah, why not? And that started everything.”
Pardo brought the sound of the flute to flamenco which opened up new registers of feeling. But he had not been thinking about flamenco as his primary interest. Jorge Pardo says that, in fact, it was only after hearing Miles Davis experiment with Spanish musical forms, particularly on Sketches of Spain, that he realized the richness of his own tradition.
He told me, “You realize that, wow, that music is being seen by great musicians from abroad and they’re doing something. So we are fools, we are silly with our music. Somebody else has to do it, and we have it here on hand.”
This week The Paco de Lucia Legacy will be a truly historic gathering of flamenco musicians, friends, collaborators, disciples and artists who were influenced by Paco. It’s an unprecedented convocation of Spanish musicians in New York, and a family reunion as well.
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