The Flamenco On Fire Foundation celebrates the third edition of awards that distinguish talents and long-standing careers. People and entities that enable art but do not express themselves scenically or musically. On this occasion will be awarded: Carlos Martín Ballester, a specialist in sound heritage and digitization and restoration of 78 rpm records and phonograph cylinders, who is also the director of the prestigious Carlos Martín Ballester Collection; Cristina Cruces Roldán, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Seville, a renowned researcher and teacher specialised in flamenco; and the Alalá Foundation, dedicated to social integration through education for children and young people at risk of exclusion, using flamenco as one of their motivational tools to achieve their goals.

This award was born with the intention to recognise those who for decades have worked for the dignification and outreach of this culture beyond strictly musical aspects, through diffusion, research, training, and production. Thusly from the organisation were distinguished in 2022 José María Velázquez-Gaztelu, Pepe Lamarca and the tablao Corral de la Morería. In last year’s edition, The Flamenco Vive dance academy Amor de Dios and the researcher Norberto Torres received this award.

The award ceremony will be presented by journalist Juan Garrido and will end with a golden clasp: a recital by Jerónimo Maya, a guitarist who at five years old was already a child prodigy. His playing overflows with personality and character so that besides being a concert performer he has accompanied singing to most figures of contemporary flamenco.

The ‘Eternal Sabicas’ days have as their central axis the validation of the legacy of one of the most outstanding guitarists in history, a capital reference of this genre both within and beyond the Navarrese borders. The ‘Eternal Sabicas’ is also created to spread, from different perspectives, mainly through round tables and conferences, the culture in which we must contextualise it: flamenco. Researchers, communicators, and artists from different disciplines related to deep art come to this edition to pair the wines of Jerez with their songs by the hand of José María Castaño and with the complicity of Luis Moneo and Juan Manuel Moneo on the guitar; to delve through the listening of 78 rpm records and the iconography of an unrepeatable dancer, Antonia Mercé y Luque “La Argentina,” by the hand of the sound heritage expert Carlos Martín Ballester; on Saturday at Baluarte, it will be the turn of the researcher and teacher Cristina Cruces Roldán who will rescue the trajectory of a controversial artist and will expose the lights and shadows of a dancer who led the avant-garde of his time: Vicente Escudero. We will finish these days with a meeting or talk about the “Sagas of flamenco dance,” led by journalist and presenter Juan Garrido.