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Indie music for children
No, children do not only want to sing popular traditional songs or what they see on television each day. Many or all of them can also enjoy the most independent rock and pop. Minimúsica defends this idea with small festivals for children and adults at different points of Spain. The basis of the Minimúsica festivals is an educational project intended to freely generate artistic and musical interest in children. With bands well-known on the Spanish independent stage, Minimúsica seeks to offer tools for the young to develop their creativity, and it also does so by breaking down the strict frontiers sometimes placed between the concerts for the young and old. Pu -
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SLEEPING IN THE GREATEST SHOW ON ERATH
Living in the circus is one of the most recurrent of children’s dreams. Every child has felt attracted at some time by life amongst tightrope walkers, clowns, lion tamers and contortionists, and discovering life amongst the tent poles. Now it is possible to make a dream come true and see a form of life now in danger of extinction. We are talking about the Raluy circus, one of the most famous and oldest in Spain (in 1996 the Ministry of Culture gave it the National Circus Award). Today it is permanently on tour and can be considered to be travelling museum because it explains a small part of the country’s history. Its owners, Carlos and Luis Raluy, keep up the family tradi -
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Carnival in Spain
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That date with cinema that talks of nature
The acclaimed director of Gladiator, Ridley Scott, succumbed to the beauty of the old quarter of Cáceres (Extremadura) to film his epic 1492: The Conquest of Paradise. The Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Total Recall), combines the province’s architectural heritage with the beauty of its scenery to give his particular view of the Middle Ages in the film Flesh and Blood. Luis Buñuel also found the perfect stage to film Las Hurdes, tierra sin pan in these lands. Cinema and television reviews at least as diverse as the variety of natural areas in the city. And however, there is still an immense flow of images to explore in the region of deep contras