Thursday, July 31, 2008

Radio Galena, new release by La Mano Ajena

The chilean klezmer gipsy fusion band La Mano Ajena is releasing their new recording Radio Galena this coming saturday August 2th at the teatro municipal de Valparaiso (Pedro Montt/Uruguay), 20 hrs.
http://www.suena.cl/discos/20-discos/1520-la-mano-ajena-radio-galena
La banda de fusión gitano klezmer a la chilena La Mano Ajena está realizando el lanzamiento oficial en nuestro puerto de su nueva producción Radio Galena este sábado 2 de agosto en el teatro municipal de Valparaiso (Pedro Montt/Uruguay), 20 hrs.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

MALTRÁTAME CON RITMO

MALTRÁTAME CON RITMO… pero respeta mis derechos!
Teatro Municipal de Valparaíso
$3.000 y $2.000 preventa
$15.000 abono por todo el ciclo + disco de regalo
Viernes 25 de julio, 20:00 horas
SONORA DE LLEGAR + KANIBALES SURF COMBO
Sábado 26 de julio, 20:00 horas
PASCUALA ILABACA + CHINOY + ANDRES GODOY + PAYO GRONDONA
Viernes 1 de agosto, 20:00 horas
ANITA TIJOUX + TIO LUCHO + SOLO DI MEDINA
Sábado 2 de agosto, 20:00 horas
LA MANO AJENA (Lanzamiento disco Radio Galena)
Viernes 8 de agosto, 20:00 horas
JUANAFE + INVITADOS (Cierre Gira Afrorumba Chilenera en Quinta Región)
Sábado 9 de agosto, 20:00 horas
MATAHARI + PICHANGA + LOMOFILIA
Viernes 15 de agosto, 20:00 horas
QUIQUE NEIRA + BOOMER
Sábado 16 de agosto, 20:00 horas
DANIEL MUÑOZ, FELIX LLANCAFIL Y 3X7 VEINTIUNA + músicos de LA ISLA DE LA FANTASÍA

Artist's copyrights campaign

The artists affiliated with the chilean copyrights society (SCD) have started a campaign to fight for the new draft for a copyrights bill in Internet that is being discussed in the Chilean Congress. So far it looks like the big media corporations a doing a heavy lobbying here to free them from liability to pay for it when others are downloading for free. The SCD's earliest No mates la música campaign seems have not given fruits more than some public awareness on this subject. Now the subject is a bit more global and complex... internet.... who protects the author's copyrights in that media.... That is the fight is being addressed at the congress and since today at the gates of the Teatro municipal de Valparaiso (photos above).

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Book Fair in Valpo

Monday, July 21, 2008

Flairck in Viña

Once again, after an 11 years long absence Flairck is coming back to Viña. This extraordinaire european ensemble mixes classical, jazz, folk & rock staging their music in a theatrical manner. This is their third visit to our region, being here before in 1995 and 1997 when they played with Franco Cabello, who once more will be playing as invited guest with his band Tribu with these 4 amazing musicians. Those who had the opportunity to listen Flairck live before have been moved and inspired by their unique music. This is an opportunity we shouldn't miss. Flairck will perform at the Viña's Municipal theater on friday August 8th at 21 hrs. Tickets may be bought through Ticketmaster, Falabella, Cine Hoyts and Viña's teatro municipal ticket office.
Una verdadera fiesta de sonidos y color tendrán los seguidores de Flairck, banda que después de once años regresa a Chile para presentarse en el Teatro Caupolicán de Santiago y en el Teatro Municipal de Viña del Mar, los días 2 y 8 de agosto respectivamente.
Este versátil conjunto europeo mezcla estilos tan diversos como la música clásica, Jazz, folclore y rock, entre otros, y en su puesta en escena complementa melodías con la representación teatral. Esta es su tercera visita a nuestro país. Ya estuvieron en Santiago y Viña del Mar en 1995 y en 1997, año en que también deleitaron a sus fans con sus bellas composiciones. En ambas ocasiones fueron acompañados por el músico chileno Franco Cabello, quien nuevamente subirá con ellos al escenario Junto a su grupo Tribu.
Flairck se inició en 1978 y una de sus características principales radica en el uso de un sinfín de instrumentos de cuerda, viento y percusión descubiertos a lo largo de sus incontables giras. En sus recitales utilizan instrumentos japoneses, celtas, indios, chinos y andinos. Erik Visser, director musical del grupo, “el objetivo es conocer las costumbres, leyendas y tradiciones de cada país que visitan, para luego adaptarlas a sus creaciones y experimentar con los sonidos.
Con 30 años de trayectoria, estos geniales músicos han editado 22 discos, que incluyen música de circo, composiciones para orquesta sinfónica, obras para cantantes y obras instrumentales para ballet , entre otras. En cuanto a su discografía, los discos más difundidos en Chile son :”Live in Ámsterdam” , “Gevecht met de ángel” “Alive” y “The Chilean concert” .
Actualmente Flairck está integrado por 4 músicos: Erik Visser: Composición y Guitarras, Elaina Cook: Violín, Jeroen Goossen: Flauta traversa y Pablo Ortiz: Bajo Electroacústico y Guitarra
La venta de entradas ya se inició a través del sistema ticketmaster, venta sin recargo Ahumada 6 Of. 22, boleteria del teatro municipal de Viña, Falabella y Cine Hoyts. Mayor información en http://www.imen.cl/ o http://www.flairckenchile.cl/. Mail de contacto : contacto@imen.cl Ambos conciertos están programados para las 21:00 horas.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Banda celtamericana in Muelle Barón

Banda celtamericana is a local music ensemble born 6 years ago mixing the so called celtic traditional music with latin american elements and instruments. Their work have been recorded in 2 CDs, and it has been awarded sucessive state grants (Fondart, Dirac) allowing them to tour northern and southern Chile as well as the UK and Ireland.
Banda Celtamericana will perform a free concert with master dancer Clarisa Rakos within the Puerto Barón programme next Sunday 27th in an open stage at the muelle barón, 16:30
Banda celtamericana es un grupo musical porteño nacido hace 6 años que fusiona la llamada música céltica tradicional con elementos rítmicos e instrumentos latinoamericanos. Su trabajo musical ha sido registrado en 2 CDs, siendo galardonados con subsidios estatales (Fondart, Dirac) que les han permitido realizar exitosamente giras por las regiones de Chile así como también una gira europea por el Reino Unido e Irlanda en 2007.
Banda celtamericana se presentará en concierto gratuito al aire libre con la bailarina Clarisa Rakos dentro del programa Puerto Barón este próximo domingo 27 en el muelle Barón, 16:30 hrs.

Friday, July 18, 2008

Orquesta Andina CD release

The Orquesta andina, born at the School of Music of the P. Universidad Católica de Valparaíso is perhaps the best andean style chamber folk orchestra found in central Chile and now it is releasing a new CD. They will stage its release with a free perfomance at the teatro municipal de Viña del mar, July 27th 19:00. You may get free tickets on advance next week at the theater's ticket office in Viña.
More info at PUCVnews

Organ concerts in Valpo

Whereas in Viña you may find regular services using organ in a few churches such as the Benedectine church at Chorrillos. In Valpo, we do have just two churches where on a regular basis we might find a
organ concert or regular services using this complex and old instrument. These churches are the St Paul's Anglican church at Cerro Concepción and the Sagrados Corazones Church at Independencia Street. These two churches host two older instruments. The St Paul's anglican instrument made by Foster & Andrews (Hull) was dedicated to Queen Victoria before 1903. The Sagrados Corazones organ (photos above) is a french Airtide Cavaillé-Coll instrument brought by Pére Démarais to Valpo in 1871. It has 24 registers, 1380 pipes. It was restored after the 1906 earthquake, with the restoration of its original pipes mix of tin, lead and silver. The last restoration of its gear was done a couple of years ago. So if anyone would like to listen organ music you might drop at the anglican Church any sunday around 12:30 to follow a programme that is regularly scheduled in the web or more irregularly the Sagrados corazones church like next week on the 23th at 1900.
More info on Valpo's organs

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Peruvian dancing night at the Bote salvavidas

The local peruvian community through their Ladies commitee is organizing a dancing night to celebrate the peruvian independence day at the Bote salvavidas restaurant (muelle Prat) , next sunday July 27th at 20 hrs. More info: see phones below.
Cena Aniversario Patrio. El Comité de Damas Peruanas V Región y el Consulado General del Perú en Valparaíso, tienen el agrado de invitar a usted a la Cena Bailable que con motivo del 187 Aniversario de la Independencia del Perú, tendrá lugar el día Domingo 27 de Julio a las 20:00 horas, en el Restaurant Bote Salvavidas, Muelle Prat 2º Piso.
Adhesión $ 10.000
Fonos: 2961087
2478349

Santiago apóstol: Galician Fiesta in Valpo

Update 08/20/2008: The fiesta just ended with a great ceremonial queimada, gaita music and dancing by Remembranzas de Galicia and the people attending the fiesta.
The Centro Gallego de Valparaiso will celebrate its Santo patrono Santiago (St James) this coming weekend on July 20th starting with a mass at 12:30 am at the chapel, followed by lunch, festival and traditional ceremonial queimada during the afternoon and evening at the Estadio Español de Valparaiso-Viña del Mar.

El Centro Gallego de Valparaiso celebrará a su Santo patrono, Santiago el Mayor este fin de semana domingo 20, comenzando con una misa a las 12:30 am en la capilla, almuerzo, fiesta y queimada ceremonial durante la tarde en el Estadio Español de Valparaiso-Viña del Mar, Recreo.
Más info: teléfono 2483464-2627197

Monday, July 14, 2008

Lost in transit

Over 1600 luggage pieces lost in transit or forgotten at the Santiago airport are going to be auctioned tomorrow by airport and Pudahuel municipality authories. Precisely this is what happen to many travellers going away o coming back through multiple airports. These travellers or more often their valuable cargo every so often get lost in transit. Those coming to Valparaiso from Europe have to get through hubs such as Frankfurt, Paris or Madrid whereas those coming from North America get through other hubs such as New York, Atlanta, Miami or L.A. Finally the traveller and their belongings arrive to Santiago and from there travel to their cities north, south or to the seashore like Valparaiso.
So it was our experience last year returning with banda celtamericana from an UK tour. Regrettably, the airlines that took us back to Chile (Lufthansa and Aircomet) lost a good portion of our luggage (9 pieces) and it took to them over a month to get 5 of these pieces back to us. The remaining 4 pieces containing mostly musical instruments never appeared (nunca más se supo). So when we heard the news about this luggage exhibition prior to the public auction we had to give it a last chance. The airline operators are of no avail to find our stuff so maybe it might be resting with this bunch to be auctioned. We weren't fortunate enough our stuff was not visible there, but we felt sorry for the many who like us lost thir luggage.... there was even a Gibson J185 EC, a wonderful and pricy guitar (see below), we presume originally belonging to some musician that still should be regretting its lost.

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

BOSQUIMANOS KORYAK

The uruguayan troupe Bosquimanos Koryak brings to Valparaíso “El truco de Olej”, a dark play showing some kind of doll Circus mixing magic, humour and poetry. This play is going to be staged next friday 11th and saturday 12th at the Municipal theater (Pedro Montt/Uruguay).
“El truco de Olej” is a play staged using dollies awaking human feelings within a ludic world where there are no impossible movements. The plot is developed within a circus, the perfect excuse to show the acts of this play.