Balconies, Streets, and Patios
PAMPLONA
TOWN HALL SQUARE
It will be on Wednesday, August 28 at the Town Hall Square, at 12 p.m. The territory and its dance will also have a presence and representation in an edition focused on dance.
The Duguna dance, music, and folk song company of Euskal Herria is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its foundation this year. An anniversary that began on San Saturnino’s day with a sokadantza in which dancers from different eras of the group participated. The celebration continued with an exhibition at the Palacio del Condestable de Iruña, around which dance workshops, talks, performances, and concerts were organised. For the San Fermín festival, an ezpata-dantza is planned along with the txiki group. Therefore, coinciding with the opening of the eleventh edition of Flamenco On Fire, we wanted to join the celebration by inviting them to participate and play a leading role in an edition where dance takes centre stage at the festival. On the flamenco side, it will be Maestro Pepe Habichuela, ambassador of our event, upon whom the honour of starting the meeting and this eclectic and sincere inauguration of the street activities program in Iruña will fall. A member of an important flamenco dynasty started by his grandfather, Habichuela el Viejo, and continued by his father José Carmona and his three brothers Juan Habichuela, Carlos, and Luis. After a long artistic career in which he shared the stage with such emblematic artists as Juanito Valderrama, Enrique Morente, or Camarón de la Isla, since 2014 he has been faithfully attending Pamplona to act as godfather and participate in Flamenco on Fire. It will be his son, Josemi Carmona, heir to his legacy, who flies with a unique, marked, and prestigious artistic personality, who will provide the music that Duguna will perform, in a meeting of mutual recognition that will unite the sound of the flamenco guitar with the tradition of the dantzaris (vasc dancers).
BALCONY OF THE PAMPLONA/IRUÑA CITY HALL
The Pamplona/Iruña City Hall hosts a first-class flamenco program for everyone to enjoy on the street. Made of stone and with grand iron railings, with reminiscences of Baroque and Rococo styles, this stage is one of the great emblems of the Flamenco on Fire festival. Here, the figures of song and guitar rise to proclaim the sung and musicalized word. This eleventh edition, starting on Thursday, August 29, and ending on September 1 at 12 PM, will feature Capullo de Jerez et Ramón Trujillo, Israel Fernández et Antonio El Relojero, Aurora Vargas et Miguel Salado, and Remedios Amaya et Diego del Morao.
BALCONY OF HOTEL LA PERLA
Flamenco On Fire returns to a historic space for its street activities: Hotel La Perla. The rooms that once hosted personalities of universal culture, such as Ernest Hemingway, Charles Chaplin, and Orson Welles, now receive a wide showcase of singers like Salome Pavón, Mara Rey, Jolis Muñoz, or Celia Flores, and sublime guitar players like those of Jerónimo Maya, Juan Jiménez, Jesús del Rosario, and Rycardo Moreno who will perform and accompany from the balcony of one of Pamplona’s literary emporiums. Live music from Thursday, August 29 to September 1 at 12:45 p.m. from one of the bastions of Flamenco on Fire.
PALACE OF EZPELETA
The doors of the Palace of Ezpeleta will open to welcome singing. Five performances that will begin at 7:45 p.m., from Wednesday, August 28 to Sunday, September 1. A stage dedicated exclusively to flamenco lyricism. The first concert will be performed by Salomé Pavón and Jerónimo Maya, followed by the Jerez natives Luis Moneo and Juan Manuel Moneo, the next day will be the turn of Remedios Reyes and Julio Santiago, who will pass the baton to Enrique El Extremeño and Pedro Sierra and close this cycle Perico and José, “Los Pañero” with the guitar of Diego del Morao.
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VIANA
BALCONY OF THE CITY HALL
The City Hall of Viana, located in the Plaza de los Fueros and built in the 17th century in Renaissance and Baroque style in its facades, stands out, laden with history, as one of the spaces with which Flamenco On Fire opens in Navarra. The music of Ángel Ocray and Luis Sánchez comes to stir the memory to its balcony of imposing structure.
TUDELA
BALCONY OF THE CITY HALL
The renovations that the Tudela town hall has undergone, whose original building dates back to 1575, do not cover up its history, but rather tell it in the facade, the cellar, the entrance hall, and each of its scars. Flamenco On Fire, with the intention of showcasing singing throughout the province and adapting it to monumental spaces - or rather, to narrate it anew, from the deep perspective and in front of the neighbours of a city that exudes culture -, schedules here figures of the most genuine art, such as Saúl Quirós, who this time is in charge of reviving that history accompanied by the guitar of Raúl Ramírez Fernández. It will be on Saturday, August 24 at 8 p.m. when the performances in the capital of Ribera of Navarre will begin.