Salta singer Juan Fuentes and the Destino San Javier trio shared this Monday morning the Consecration prize awarded by the 63rd National Festival of Cosquín.
Fuentes, former lead vocal of The Huayrahe sang the Argentine national anthem with Jairo on the opening night and then gave a celebrated concert with which he took revenge for his 2022 performance in the rain and received the award while shouting “long live folklore”.
While The San Javier destination offered a show full of screams women Wednesday night, which ended with Paolo Ragone, Franco Favini and Bruno Ragoneits creators, singing in the audience of Plaza Próspero Molina.
Far from Cosquín, they greeted each other through a recorded video where he underlined: “This is the prize that every folklorist wants to have and we are already in the history of the Festival”Other awarded artists, according to the decision communicated around one in the morning, were the vocalists Sergio Fasoli (Revelation), Aroma Duo (Official Fans Club), Sebastiano Ruiz (Street performances).
The list also included the Ancrof Prize (granted by the National Association of Chroniclers of Folklore) to Eduardo Guajardo; a special mention for coscoína Marina Gonzalez and the Camin Award for Mendoza’s trajectory Pocho Sosawho celebrated 60 years on the road at the inauguration of the sixth moon and distinguished himself by wearing a black T-shirt with the face of Armando Tejada Gómez.
The night of Abel Pintos
With Abel Pintos capping 25 years of history at the Cosquín National Festival in style, the 63rd Native Art event concluded with three more notable performances: Nestore Garnica, Lucia Ceresani and Franco Luciani.
From one end of the night to the other, Cosquín showed the aesthetic and thematic breadth that it is able to accommodate for the delight of the public as inclined to party as to listen.
And yes Pintos has sanctioned its power to summon and carry a show of international scope, the almost entirely instrumental opening of the violinist Garnica, followed by the heartfelt southern pulsations of Ceresani and the versatility of the Luciani harmonica that has already left its mark on popular musicgave a very high aperture.
At the limit of 2 in the morning, the composer and singer from Bahía had a markedly balladistic and pop beginning where he chained Your voice, together, mirror, I’ll wait for you here Y How I miss you.
And immediately after bathing in those first ovations, he expressed: “It is a privilege to be able to celebrate 25 years of singing in this Plaza. It is true that I have not made strictly folk music for many years, but They have allowed me to continue to have this space and this is something that honors me.”.
In use of the floor, Abel he asked for a round of applause for his brother Ariel (guitarist of his band), who is also celebrating a quarter of a century in Cosquín and stressed that although he does not like to dedicate his performances, this time he has done so “with all our love for our parents and our dear brother Andrés ” and also for “La Moro, a great composer from Salta who is fighting it with all the strength that characterizes it”.
And perhaps to be somewhat in tune with the general atmosphere of the meeting, he announced “the pleasure of being able to bring traditional music to the stage together with a singer who moves me a lot and whose name is Lucía Ceresani” who he called to share Stephanieby Alfredo Zitarrosa.
With another twenty pieces that they brought the order around 4 in the morningPintos sang time-tested classics from his repertoire (Unfinished Business, One Hundred Years, Revolution Y I made her crybetween them).
Frank Sunday
The beautiful trilogy that began on Sunday was completed with the artist from Rosario Franco Luciani, who at the head of an exceptional trio (Leonardo Andersen on guitar, Pablo Motta on double bass) and Bruno Resino on percussion) found an original way of putting its 20 years of activity in dialogue with the homage to the greats of folklore.
Flexible and inspired, and more attached to the harmonica than to singingin his performance he chained exceptional passages while paying homage to Juan Carlos Carabajal (with the chacarera Hello, good day), Aníbal «Pichuco» Troilo and Elpidio Herrera.
But in Franco’s palette there were more colors and dedications to Raúl Carnota and Tarragó Ros, before a finale full of couple dances to the rhythm of the chacarera the saccharinewhich he composed with Alejandro Szwarcman.
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