by the El Reportero’s news services
Silvio RodríguezCuban singer Silvio Rodríguez will begin on April 12 in Costa Rica a tour that will also include Bolivia and Peru, the website www.zurrondelaprendiz.com reported.
The singer of popular songs such a El necio, Te doy una canción, Unicornio and La era esta pariendo un corazón, among others, will be accompanied by Trovarroco Trío, clarinetist and flutist Niurka González, and drummer and percussionist Oliver Valdés.
Rodríguez will perform on April 15 at the Central Urban Park of Santa Cruz, in Bolivia, and on April 19 in the southern esplanade of the Monumental stadium in Lima, Peru.
Colombian’s Vallenato Festival
Mexican Juan Gabriel and Guatemalan Ricardo Arjona are in the Schedule Guest of Honor List of the Colombian Festival of Vallenato Legend, that in its 46 Edition is dedicated to the late poet and composer Gustavo Gutierrez.
The event, from 27 to 30 April next, will bring together the cream of this musical gender, which will dance to the infectious beat of the accordion in Valledupar, capital of the northern province of El César.
Juan Gabriel with its classic theams encourage the gala of the 28th, while Arjona will be playing close to the Feast scammers some of his most well-known ballads.
Also joining them will be two of the exponents of the vallenato veterans in the Andean country, Egidio Cuadrado and Carlos Vives, who opened the first of the conference, which will be for free.
Special moment will be the gala tribute to Gustavo Gutiérrez, dubbed by critics as the poet skinny vellenato, creator of pieces like Without Measure Distances, Como and Confidences.
Uruguayan International Festival with 250 films
With 153 feature and 97 short films from 50 countries, the 31st International Film Festival, organized by the Uruguayan film making, will exhibit at seven movie theaters in Montevideo, which was named Culture Capital of Latin America.
The opening is planned for this Saturday with the showing of Javier Rebollo’s “El muerto y ser feliz” (The dead and being happy) played by Jose Sacristan and the Uruguayan actress Roxana Blanco.
The festival, that will end on April 6th, includes nine works in Latin American section: from Argentina Ulises Rosell’s El etnografo (The ethnographer) and Gustavo Fernandez’ “De martes a martes” (From Tuesday to Tuesday); from Brazil Bruno Safadi’s “Eden” and Cesar Oiticica Filho’s “Helio Oiticica”; from Venezuela Luis and Andres Rodriguez’ “Brecha en el silencio” (Breach in the silence), from Chile Dominga Sotomayor’s “ De jueves a domingo” (From Thursday to Sunday); from Mexico Mercedes Moncada’s Palabras magicas (Magic words); from Colombia Colbert Garcia’s “Silencio en el Paraiso” (Silence in Paradise) and from Spain Eterio Ortega Santillana’s “Al final del tunel”, (At the end of the tunnel).
During the festival, films from Germany, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Spain, France, Greece, Portugal and Russia will compete.
In the section of international film making, the most recent films of Ken Loach, Terrence Davies, David Cronenberg, Raoul Ruiz, Marcelo Gomes, Hong Sansoo, Carlos Reygadas and a season of Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira, Victor Erice and Aki Kaurismaki will be screened.
The festival will award nine films of “new film makers” from Argentina, Austria, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Uruguay that deal with human rights.
