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21st February 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC…THE HARP AND EVE MATIN (INTERVIEW)
24/7 VALENCIA: TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND AND MUSICAL EDUCATION… EVE MATIN: I come from a Persian family but I grew up in Peru. Despite the fact that no one in my family is a musician, I was mysteriously attracted to the harp. I started as a classical harpist and did most of the […]
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16th February 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC… XIMO TEBAR
Legendary Valencian guitarist Ximo Tebar has been offered a teaching post at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). He received an invitation from UCLA Global Jazz Studies to participate in a call for applications for the position of lecturer in “Advanced Jazz Guitar Performance”, he applied and was selected. XIMO TEBAR: The truth is that […]
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12th February 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC… FRANCISCO TÁRREGA “FATHER OF THE CLASSICAL GUITAR”
ORIGINS: “Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Villarreal, Province of Castellón, (VALENCIAN COMMUNITY) Spain. It is said that Francisco’s father played flamenco and several other music styles on his guitar; when his father was away working as a watchman at the Convent of San Pascual, Francisco would take his father’s guitar and attempt […]
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11th February 2021 NEW ALBUM OUT! WHEN ‘DEACON BLUE’ PLAYED VALENCIA (EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW!)
##Scotland’s Deacon Blue have just released a new album, “Riding On The Tide Of Love”. It contains eight new songs (the title track was the lead single in November 2020) and the band’s singer Ricky Ross has commented: “When we released ‘City Of Love’ last March we celebrated it being number 1 in Scotland and […]
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10th February 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC… ‘CASA MANUÉ’
##KNOWN TO HIS FRIENDS AS ‘MANUÉ’, ANDALUSIAN SINGER-SONGWRITER & POET ‘MANUEL DELGADO’ ARRIVED IN VALENCIA IN THE EARLY 1990s. WITH SPANISH GUITAR IN HAND, ‘MANUÉ’ WOULD PLAY IN BARS, RESTAURANTS, THE METRO AND ON THE STREETS IN DIFFERENT BARRIOS OF VALENCIA. HE WAS ALSO A VERY FAMILIAR FACE ON THE BOHEMIAN NIGHTLIFE SCENE OF THE […]
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9th February 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC… NEW ALBUM BY ELMA SAMBEAT
##-The rich work of Federico García Lorca inspires the 11 previously unreleased songs on the album “Muerto de Amor”, which Elma Sambeat premieres on February 14th…at 7 p.m. at the Teatre El Musical (Plaza del Rosario 3, Valencia). – The Valencian artist and the French pianist Baptiste Bailly, co-author of the project, achieve a unique […]
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5th February 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC…SCOTT MANNION
##‘Loving Echoes’ is the first solo album for the New Zealander artist Scott Mannion, co-founder of the label Lil’ Chief Records (Jonathan Bree, Princess Chelsea, The Ruby Suns). Scott currently lives and records in Chelva, a Spanish medieval village located in the mountains of Valencia. Mannion is a cult figure in the alternative scene of […]
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3rd February 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC TRAVIS SMILEN – THE MANOUCHE AMBASSADOR
Travis Smilen was born in Plantation, Florida, USA, into a family of musicians, and was inspired by his father to try the guitar. “I liked the sound of it, just hearing my dad play. So, it was a natural thing”, he remembers. “Then I discovered players like Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, and other […]
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2nd February 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC…’BESARABIA’
1. What are the origins and influences of Besarabia? Besarabia was born out of the chance meeting of Eva and myself (Heidi). We live only 8 kms from each other but met for the first time strangely through my husband, as she thought he was teaching English and she was looking for English lessons (actually […]
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1st February 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC…STARLITE CAMPBELL BAND
24/7 VALENCIA: Tell us something about both of your backgrounds in music and the name of your band… STARLITE CAMPBELL BAND: Well, we are pretty seasoned songwriters and musicians and, following a whirlwind musical romance, we married on May 12, 2014 in Inveraray, Scotland. Suzy is a fine vocalist and songwriter plus plays fiendishly groovy […]
