PUBLICIDAD / ADVERTISEMENT PUBLICIDAD / ADVERTISEMENT What is the problem with analysing the works of the artists? None. In the case of Mairena, his memory is alive and well precisely because people have not stopped talking and writing about him since he died. Good and bad things, of course. No oeuvre is perfect, not even God’s. someone who was upset because we were talking about Antonio Mairena in a well-known radio show that I hosted several years ago called our live phone-in line and yelled “Leave dead people alone!” We were analyzing and talking critically about the discography of that master from Mairena del Alcor where anyone who posts anything about this important cantaor that’s not flattery or adulation gets immediately blasted where he trashes colleagues like Juan Breva or Canario de Álora because they had contributed to the dissolution of cante gitano He questioned the legacy of those two stars from Málaga about artists that I will not name so hell doesn’t break loose «Anyone who posts anything about Antonio Mairena in the social networks that’s not flattery or adulation gets immediately blasted The worst thing that could happen to Mairena Caracol or Marchena is that people stop talking or writing about them There are dozens and dozens of cantaores who have fallen into oblivion they were no match for the aforementioned artists None of them revolutionized flamenco or had a great influence in other generations of artists Enrique Morente has perhaps been the most criticized cantaor of the last fifty years two years before he died: “I rather have my work analysed now because I know that after I die people will be more forgiving” There has never been a more sharp and clear mind than that of this master from Granada What is the problem with analyzing the works of the artists his memory is alive and well precisely because people have not stopped talking and writing about him since he died Marchena and Camarón were human beings with virtues and defects holding Camarón by the waist so he wouldn’t go astray But the genius from La Isla wanted to tread his own path 40 años de investigación flamenca en El Correo de Andalucía Autor de biografías de la Niña de los Peines and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Knowledge and passion The depth and the grief EXPOFLAMENCO connects Flamenco communities around the world An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale (0 to 10) with its epicentre in the area around the Moroccan town of Ksar el-Kebir has been felt in municipalities in up to six Andalusian provinces including Malaga - which includes the Costa del Sol - with no reports of personal or material damage According to Spain's IGN national geographic institute the earthquake happened at around 11.49pm on Monday 10 February with its epicentre in the Moroccan region of Tangiers-Tetouan-Al Hoceima at a depth of 34 kilometres The earthquake was felt with intensity II and III in the municipalities of Seville (Alcalá de Guadaíra Dos Hermanas and the city); Cadiz (Algeciras Los Barrios and San Roque); Malaga (Estepona Fuengirola and the city); Huelva (Lepe and the city); Jaén (Linares) and Cordoba city The 112 Andalucía emergency service control room received five calls from the public in the early hours of the morning about this earthquake four in the province of Seville (two in the city Mairena del Alcor and Mairena del Aljarafe) and one in Huelva (Bollullos Par del Condado) Comentar es una ventaja exclusiva para registrados «All awards are welcome, but these are the most satisfying ones, because they’re a recognition of a long career, in my own land»… and for many years he has probably been the guitarist of accompaniment in highest demand by the leading stars in cante jondo 1964 in Mairena Del Alcor (Seville Province) in the midst of a family with a great flamenco tradition he’s the son of cantaor José Antonio Carrión Sánchez Carrión de Mairena (b related to Cascabel de Mairena and to Niño Segundo that innkeeper of Castilla Street who dazed his patrons with his soleá de Triana The Musa Flamenca is an award bestowed every year by the Federación Provincial de Sevilla de Entidades Flamencas which is made up by seventy-five cultural associations with a common goal: the promotion of flamenco is the highest award granted by this Federation Among the recipients of this honor in the last decade are the guitarists Manolo Sanlúcar and Niño Elías; entities such as the Council of Seville the peñas flamencas “Pepe Montaraz” of Lebrija and “El Gallo” of Morón de la Frontera; and the cantaores Calixto Sánchez and Miguel Poveda Among the awards that Carrión has received through his long career are the Premio Nacional 2008 de la Cátedra de Flamencología de Jerez the 2010 Bienal de Sevilla’s Giraldillo for the Best Guitar of Accompaniment and the 2002 Latin Grammy for the Best Flamenco Album Antonio Carrión received this letter from the Federation: The Board of Directors of the Federación Provincial de Sevilla de Entidades Flamencas gathered on January 26th in its headquarters on 1 Dante Street career path and collaboration with the peñas flamencas of this Federation Such award will be handed over at the 9th Encuentro Anual de Peñas Flamencas de Sevilla y Provincia at 12 noon in the Teatro Enrique de la Cuadra de Utrera The ExpoFlamenco team warmly congratulates the master A few days ago, I posted in my Facebook wall the artwork made by the painter Antonio Parrilla for this year’s Festival de Cante Jondo Antonio Mairena, and the discussion is still raging. I thought this wouldn’t have any repercussion, but I was wrong, because it had. I’m sure that no other artwork of this festival has ever created any controversy, I posted in my Facebook wall the artwork made by the painter Antonio Parrilla for this year’s Festival de Cante Jondo Antonio Mairena I thought this wouldn’t have any repercussion I’m sure that no other artwork of this festival has ever created any controversy but my post has been seen by thousands of people and it has almost two hundred comments Regardless, some people thought I shouldn’t have started this discussion, believing that my intent was to harm the reputation of this painter and the festival. I don’t know why, whenever I write anything about Antonio Mairena and its festival people assume that my intention is to damage their reputation What is true is that I’ve always been very critical of mairenismo and of certain sector promoting this flamenco ideology Antonio Mairena himself was very critical of the things he didn’t like Antonio Parrilla, Antonino, is a great painter from Seville, raised in the San Julián district (a very flamencodistrict) who settled in Mairena del Alcor, where he has a beautiful country house which was chosen by Rancapino Chico for recording an album which will certainly be released after this summer Antonio is one of the great artists of Seville and his love of flamenco is unquestionable the fact that an artist of his stature was commissioned to create the official poster for the Festival de Mairena is praiseworthy particularly these days when festival posters are made by just anyone because I have a sizeable collection of them and I kind of know what I’m talking about and it makes me sick whenever I get the poster of some festival and I see it’s a monstrosity Parrilla’s poster is a great pictorial work although I confess that I had a hard time understanding the master’s face nabbing the whole poster the bubbles… That’s the artist vision of his commission to commemorate the thirty-five years since the death of this master of cante and the fact that the festival is dedicated to the Bienal de Flamenco of Málaga a city where Antonio Mairena had certain predicament and great friends In my Facebook wall there are opinions for all tastes some in favor and others against this artwork because debates sometimes generate good ideas this is an artwork very typical of Antonio Parrilla I appreciate when painters show certain coherence in what they paint That’s more or less what I think about artists in general Antonio Parrilla is not just a great painter from a technical perspective a person who is coherent with his way of understanding life and art making everything else seem of little importance In an interesting interview of Antonio Parrilla which was published in a newspaper of Seville although his poster for this festival is not too risky