Flamenco and Fado returns to the Ricardo Carapeto auditorium with João Caetano and Alba Molina

Tonight the Badajoz Flamenco and Fado Festival returns. On this day the performances are moved to the Ricardo Carapeto Municipal Auditorium. On stage, two artists: João Caetano and Alba Molina.

The Portuguese percussionist and singer João Caetano presents his show ‘Rythm & Fado’, in which he combines elements of traditional Portuguese percussion with other more current ones.

His energetic playing style combines elements of traditional Portuguese percussion, fado, jazz and folk. He will be accompanied by Ángelo Freire with the Portuguese guitar; Inés Vaz on accordion; Rui Pedro ‘Pyti’ as bass and Giselo Santana with trumpet.

João is currently preparing the next step in his career, exploring the true power of the bombo, the traditional Portuguese drum. His refreshing direct defines a musical genre that mixes various styles and traditional Portuguese music that includes percussion and fado, the genre declared Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

In second place, cantaora Alba Molina will perform to present her latest album, ‘El beso’, where she unfolds all her feelings and emotions, her fears, her joys.

Alba Molina presents ‘The Kiss’ in Badajoz. After five years of success with the ‘Alba canta a Lole y Manuel’ tour, Molina presents her latest album, the result of just over a year of work and hundreds of hours of study, in which Alba has explored dozens of paths to find the best way to share everything that was inside. All this with that special sensitivity that characterizes her, and to do it in a real way, without filters, she decides to be the one who produces her album in its entirety for the first time, they indicate from the López de Ayala Theatre.

Fusion

The live performance of this project is the result of the fusion of the most representative songs from this album, with some of the greatest hits of his career, without forgetting the songs by Lole and Manuel, always with that voice so his own, in an intimate tone. , elegant and a little more ‘pop’ than his audience is accustomed to, but without losing his flamenco touch.

Alba Molina, daughter of the members of the flamenco duo Lole and Manuel, released her first album (Despasito) in 1997, with the collaboration of her father and Alejandro Sanz, with whom she won the ‘Revelation Artist’ award at the de la Música and with which he got his first gold record.

In 2001 she published the album Alba Molina, together with the singer Colele, who arrived along with her motherhood and allowed Alba to enjoy a more mature life.

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