Concert "Yerai Cortés"

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Times

Tuesday at 20:30 h

Headliner

Yerai Cortés

Genre

flamenco

What's it about

Yerai Cortés has become one of the most fascinating, innovative, and indispensable figures in contemporary flamenco. Equipped with a masterful guitar impulse and overflowing sensitivity, the musician has managed to transcend traditional molds to open a fascinating dialogue between the living heritage of the genre and the boldest languages of contemporaneity. Driven by the impact of the acclaimed documentary La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés —directed by Antón Álvarez and awarded two Goya Awards— and with the support of his Latin Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, Cortés does not only play the guitar: he sculpts the rhythm, summons the duende in the silences, and reclaims the popular soul of the art of jondo with an unmistakable lyrical maturity. In his POPULAR project, the artist from Alicante expands his open and free vision of flamenco to transform the live performance into an experience of striking poetic, visual, and emotional force. On stage, his stripped-down and virtuosic playing intertwines hypnotically with six female voices, body percussion, and handclaps, dispensing with any artifices to return the spotlight to the naked truth of the music. After conquering prestigious international venues and festivals such as the Philharmonie de Paris, Montreux, Primavera Sound, and Grec, his show is consecrated as a ritual in which memory and the future coexist in a perfect balance. This encounter with contemporary guitar will reach its peak in the majesty of the Gran Teatre del Liceu. The privileged acoustics of one of the city's most emblematic stages will provide the ideal setting to host a historic night, in which Yerai Cortés will demonstrate why he is the great reference of a new flamenco era destined to move audiences around the world.

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