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    VALENCIA MUSIC… ED BLOOM

    ##At the end of last year, Ed Bloom – pseudonym of the Valencian Miguel Jordá taken from Tim Burton’s film ‘Big Fish’ – presented himself for the first time with an unreleased track, Shine. This epic, British-inspired song was accompanied by a video clip by illustrator Patricia Bolinches and with animation by Sergio Pop, and […]

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    (MUSIC) ROXANE ARNAL – A FRENCH CONNECTION IN VALENCIA

    ##Some artists are simply born into music, while others find and travel more or less traditional roads to it. French crossover singer/songwriter and guitarist/double bass player (and actress) Roxane Arnal, who has made a splash on the Valencia scene, recalls two defining moments. – I first discovered music when I was still a little girl […]

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    VALENCIA MUSIC…EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE LEGENDARY ‘PEP BOTIFARRA’

    24/7 VALENCIA: Tell us about your Valencian roots and your first experiences with music from your land… PEP BOTIFARRA:My first contact with traditional Valencian music was via my family. Most specifically, my grandmother Otília Borredà who was from the town of Benigànim. She knew so many songs and popular sayings and as I practically grew […]

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    VALENCIA MUSIC…(EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW) WITH MIKE MCKOY

    1. Tell us something about your background and experiences… My perspective has changed over the years, and I’ve mellowed quite a bit. I enjoy wry humour, which might tempt me to frame my background as something out of an Edvard Munch painting. But that would be nonsense, and perhaps pernicious – because not only have […]

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    VALENCIA MUSIC…. ALEX CONDE ‘PIANO FLAMENCO EXPLORATIONS’

    24/7 VALENCIA: Can you tell us about your musical training and education? ALEX CONDE: My musical training began at home, at the age of 4, accompanying my father playing his songs, teaching me by ear how to accompany and provide the chords that the melody gives you. When I was 8 years old, thanks to […]

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    LES ARTS ÉS ÒPERA’… VERDI’S ‘FALSTAFF’ MARCH 2021

    ##Palau de Les Arts (Valencia) premieres Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’, starring Ambrogio Maestri under the musical direction of Daniele Rustioni. – Les Arts presents Verdi’s last opera in a staging by Mario Martone for the Berlin Staatsoper, which moves the action to a contemporary metropolis.- Ainhoa Arteta, Violeta Urmana, Davide Luciano and Sara Blanch perform, alongside Maestri, […]

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    VALENCIA MUSIC! ‘TARIQ’… EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ANDRÉS BELMONTE

    ##24/7 Valencia: Andrés, can you take us through your album ‘Tariq’? Andrés Belmonte of Tariq: My trip starts in Valencia, arrives in Cairo via Istanbul and then rests in Valencia once again. On this ‘Tariq’ road appears ‘El Henna’ & ‘Hobbi’, which are compositions by Mohamed Abdel Wahab, a colossus of the golden age of […]

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    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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    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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