Farewell to the stages of Catalan troubadour Joan Manuel Serrat just added one night in Córdoba, the Argentine side of her farewell world tour. The recital will be on Tuesday, November 8 at Mario Kempes Stadium of that city.

“In the covered grandstand, the only function for Córdoba, expected from May 28,” businessman José Palazzo, one of the founders of Cosquín Rock, posted shortly ago on his Twitter account to announce the musician’s new date in the country. .

Waiting for a possible passage also in Rosario, on this Cordovan night, Serrat added a fifth performance to his Argentine step in this farewell to the stages, after exhausting four shows scheduled at the Movistar Arena for the nights of 19, 20, next November 25 and 26.

The tour has already begun

The vice of singing 1965-2022the title called by the composer and singer in this series of concerts, began in late April at the Beacon Theater in New York and will also go through stages in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Spain and Uruguay.finally close on December 23 at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona.

His most recent show within the framework of this tour was two days ago, at the National Auditorium in Mexico City, where he presented himself with a strong message about environmental damage, tributes to Mexican song and guests.

Although you persist and my emotions overflow, I plan to reach the end, I assure you, “the musician said of the sensations generated by this farewell tour to half the world.” As long as you forced me to destroy me emotionally, they ‘I can’t get it, among other things, because I already am.’

A great list of topics

As expected, Serrat made great hits like Mediterranean, For freedom, The carousel of furo and, at the end of the concert, the long -awaited Penelope. He also entertained the audience by paying tribute to composer José Alfredo Jiménez along with A strange world and, quite in keeping with the farewell, the traditional Mexican song The swallow.

The singer-songwriter recalled his first visit to Mexico in 1969, when “the flames of Tlatelolco were still burning,” he said, referring to the massacre of students that took place last year in that area of ​​the city. . But his strongest message was a call to attention to try to correct course in the face of environmental degradation.

“They’re trying to normalize expressions like climate change, when it’s really hiding a horrible reality that’s imminent. It’s heartbreaking to think of the pollution of the world that we’re going to leave our children and our children. grandchildren if things are not fixed, ” he said.

then interpreted Ama, a theme about the plight of missing ecosystems. “When I wrote this song, I was convinced that human wisdom, development, science, would make this song obsolete in a short time. No one would say it, but this song is about to be 50 years old,” he said. he explained.

And before saying goodbye to his Mexican audience, he added: “I wish with all my heart that we can see each other’s faces again without masks and that the word tomorrow is a synonym of life.”

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