The tenth International Festival of the Peruvian Cajon recreate a concert the meeting that the Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucía was 40 years ago in Lima with the representative instrument of Afro-Peruvian music, the percussion revolutionized since then flamenco, hand gaditano composer . At that concert, entitled "Impact. Sounds Diaspora" will be 'Master', the last guitar Paco de Lucía, unique specimen designed by algecireño musician, which will be played this time by the Peruvian guitarist Ernesto Hermoza, announced today the organizers of the festival. Hermoza told Efe that he is "very excited" because they get their hands on the guitar of Paco de Lucía "is the dream of any guitarist" for leading preparing for months, "since it must vibrate and resonate incredibly ". The tribute will take place in the National Grand Theater of Lima and will be the culmination of the festival, to be held in the Peruvian capital from 27 to 30 April and will also feature the participation of the most talented cajoneadores today in Peru, as Juan Medrano "Cotito".
During the festival will screen next Friday, the documentary "The guitar flies", which presents a tour made by 'The Master' by different American countries that was played by famous musicians like Brazilian Caetano Veloso and Carlinhos Brown or Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz. The screening will be at the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Rimac Lima and later there will be a discussion with the film's director, Jorge Martínez. The festival held on Saturday 29 traditional "cajoneada" Water Park in Rimac, where hundreds of people gather to play that instrument simultaneously, in memory of the founder of the contest, the Afro-Peruvian musician Rafael Santa Cruz. During the four days of the festival there will be activities at the Cultural Center of Spain (CCE) with musicians from the United States, Argentina and Colombia, who merged the drawer and Afro-Peruvian music with other musical styles of African descent, such as jazz. The director of the Festival of the Peruvian Cajon, Julie Guillerot, told Efe that the thread will revalue the various contributions of African descent to music and approach drawer to different artistic aspects, as an exhibition of drawers operated by contemporary artists.
In the conference presentation of the festival they were also attended by Mayor Rimac, Enrique Peramás, Director of Policy for the Afro-Peruvian Population of the Ministry of Culture, Susana Matute Charún, and the director of the Cultural Center of Spain, David Ruiz López. Peramás stressed the importance of the Peruvian Cajon Festival because, he said, "the drawer was born with the people" in slums of families descendants of slaves, as Malambo, in the Rimac. Charun Matute said, meanwhile, that the event consolidates the Peruvian identity and to value the contributions of Afro-Peruvian culture to the construction of national identity.
