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Chucho Valdés & Tributo Irakere 50, Cécile McLorin Salvant and “Potter, Mehldau, Patitucci, Blake” head the 33rd edition
For yet another year, making it 33, the main auditoriums & theatres and the most emblematic public squares of the Canary Islands will host more than 60 concerts at the Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Más, which will be held from 5 to 27 July. And as in every edition, it does so featuring a line-up of artists, exemplary models of the genre.
This year, among others, the billing features the legendary Cuban pianist ‘Chucho Valdés & Tributo Irakere 50’; the star-studded get together of Chris Potter, Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci & Jonathan Blake; the excellent US vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant; and the presence of other artists such as Dave Douglas; Estrellas de Buena Vista; Veronica Swift; Knower (formation led by the multi-instrumentalist Louis Cole and the singer Genevieve Artadi); Ana Popovic; Harold López-Nussa, Jonathan Kresiberg; Theo Croker; Antonio Lizana and London Afrobeat Collective.
Santa Ana, Puerto de la Cruz, La Graciosa & Arrecife put an end to the 32nd edition
The Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Más comes to its final phase featuring some twenty concerts which will be shared over the course of the weekend on the islands of Tenerife (Puerto de la Cruz), Gran Canaria (Plaza de Santa Ana & La Fábrica), Lanzarote (Arrecife), La Graciosa and La Gomera (Playa Santiago). A last installment in which you can enjoy different rhythms that range from the Cape Verdean culture of Carmen Souza to Caramelo de Cuba’s fusion of Latin jazz with flamenco; the explosive funk of Nik West to the tropical Afro-Portuguese of Ayom; from Paco Pereras traditional Canarian folk to the more classical postulates; but with a touch of contemporary, by the Pere Bujosa Trío & Daniel García Trío; from the the rhythms of the Colombian cumbia by Puertas al Sur 5Tet to the dialogue between Javier Infante’s guitar and José Alberto Medina’s piano.
The festival reaches its halfway point with the main attraction, the Metropole Orkest & Kandace Springs
This weekend the Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Más will feature one of the most important ensembles of the genre, the Metropole Orkest (MO), a symphonic formation from the Netherlands and considered as the most important jazz orchestra in the world. With four Grammy awards and a career path featuring collaborations with some of the greatest artists of contemporary music, the MO comes to the Canary Islands for the first time to offer, together with the American singer Kandace Springs, two concerts on the islands: on Saturday 15, at 19.00 hours at the Theatre Cuyás (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria);and on Sunday 16, at 20.30 hours at the Tenerife Auditorium. Both concerts have the collaboration of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Spain.
Manu Katché and Salvador Sobral open a week of magical concerts
The Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Más enters a magical week, in which it will feature some of the main artists of this 32nd edition. On the one hand, Manu Katché, one of the most highly acclaimed percussionists of the genre, and on the other, the Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral, who will star in the first two concerts of an excitiing week which will also feature the Metropole Orkest & Kandace Springs, the star attraction this year.
The concerts move to Adeje, Maspalomas & Fuerteventura
The Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Más moves this weekend to two of the tourist areas par excellence of the Archipelago. Most of the concerts programmed will be held in Maspalomas (Gran Canaria) & Adeje (Tenerife), but will keep the pace going in the two Canarian capital cities, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where there will be performances by a fair number of local groups. Fuerteventura completes the programme of concerts, where the star feature will be the bassist from Cameroun Richard Bona, one of the greatest exponents of the four strings, winner of a Grammy Award and who has a close relationship with the Canary Islands.
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