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The best of Catalan rumba will meet this Friday in Gracia to celebrate a music and a culture that continues its path to becoming cultural heritage of humanity. It will be at the Center d’Art Tradicionàrius, the same space where Sicus Carbonell, a member of Sabor de Gràcia, debuted 30 years ago, as he recalled this Tuesday at the concert presentation, where he was accompanied by Rosa Pubill and Amadeu Valentí, a living legacy of the rumbera dynasty.
Peret’s daughter and Chacho’s son were also present. “Euphoric, happy with the support and affection that everyone gives us, we did not expect to go so far so soon,” said Rosa Pubill, while Amadeu Valentí, who is also president of the Platform in Defense of Catalan Rumba, organizer of the event , he recalled that, “more than a concert, it is a journey through rumba, a launch of the Platform so that rumba returns to Barcelona, which was not dead, it was partying.”
Los Manolos, Sabor de Gràcia, Johnny Tarradellas, Peret Reyes, Los Amaya, Maruja Garrido, Yumitus del Pichón and Selu Ferrer among others will provide the music on October 20, starting at 9 p.m. “Gypsies from the Ebro to Perpinyà, the predisposition has been total,” Sicus highlighted about the event, which is small in size and free of charge for those lucky enough to have obtained a ticket through the internet.
Los Manolos, Sabor de Gràcia, Los Amaya, Maruja Garrido and Peret Reyes will perform at a meeting of five rumba generations
A concert in which the presence of the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, is expected, and which will be recorded by TV3 to be broadcast next Christmas, while the album of the performance will be published next spring. “All these artists have never been brought together on one album,” Sicus highlighted of a night in which “five generations will be seen on stage who are not gypsies or payos, they are rumberos.”
The concert, which was to be held on July 24 coinciding with the day of the Catalan Rumba, wants to be a step forward in the objective of UNESCO recognizing the sound of clapping and the fan as intangible cultural heritage. “It is part of the Catalan heritage, and we want it to be for the rest of the world,” said Valentí, while ruling out giving up the geographical name, as requested by the central Administration to support the project. “It has to be ‘Catalan rumba’ and, if not, we don’t go to UNESCO, it would be betraying what we are, gypsies and Catalans.”
Valentí: “It has to be ‘Catalan rumba’ and, if not, we don’t go to UNESCO, it would be betraying what we are, gypsies and Catalans”
The process file is now in the hands of the Generalitat while they finalize the video that will serve as a presentation to UNESCO. Next week they plan to meet with the Ministry of Culture to unravel a path that started in December and that, despite how quickly it is advancing, Vives has described as a long-distance race for 10 or 20 years. “Let them take me like Tutankhamun’s mummy if necessary, but we will all be in UNESCO.”
“We give it to the world, but it is Catalan rumba,” Pubill has remarked, an endeavor for which actions have already been committed for next year, such as the organization of an international rumba festival and the inclusion of the genre in the festivals of la Mercè. Meanwhile, the Platform is in negotiations with the City Council to take over the Mill and thus dedicate the space to the rumba and the memory of Peret and Chacho, who will surely be clapping their hands when they see so much commotion around the music they gave birth to.
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