FELIP SINGS BOLEROS - CONCERT, SATURDAY MAY 18TH
Felip Carbonell returns to the Yeats Building on Saturday 18th of May at 8 pm for the third chapter in his series of concerts dedicated to the Great Hispanic Poets and Songwriters, hosted by the Sligo Spanish Society. This time the focus will be on the bolero songs, a slow-tempo Latin music genre which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition and spread all over Latin America during the following decades.
Tickets are €10 (€8 concession) and are available at the door. Wine and refreshments are included in the ticket price.
Felip will be accompanied on this occasion by Eddie MacFarlane on guitar and Eddie Lynch on piano and –as well as boleros- they will be exploring some other Latin genres such as cumbia and cha-cha-cha.
When Felip was growing up, his father, Miquel Carbonell, used to listen to records of this type of music. This special concert will pay homage to him and his musical taste which had an enormous influence on Felip’s future career as a musician.
No to be confused with the Spanish or the Vietnamese bolero (yes, there is Vietnamese boleros, look it up!), the Cuban bolero genre is a romantic-style type of song (and rhythm) that has evolved over the years, thanks to its fusion with other types of popular dance music of the 20th century, such as mambo, son, danzón, cha-cha-cha and rumba.
In most cases, the composers and lyricists of those songs didn’t receive due recognition from the public at the time, and it was actually the performers and singers that got most of the acclaim. This is the case with songs such as Bésame Mucho, written in 1940 by Mexican composer Consuelo Velázquez, which became an international hit and was covered by, amongst others, the likes of Nat King Cole, Antonio Machín, Diana Krall, Trio Los Panchos, Andrea Boccelli and even The Beatles.
In most cases, the composers and lyricists of those songs didn’t receive due recognition from the public at the time, and it was actually the performers and singers that got most of the acclaim. This is the case with songs such as Bésame Mucho, written in 1940 by Mexican composer Consuelo Velázquez, which became an international hit and was covered by, amongst others, the likes of Nat King Cole, Antonio Machín, Diana Krall, Trio Los Panchos, Andrea Boccelli and even The Beatles.
As usual in this series of concerts, the original Spanish lyrics of the songs and their English (rough) translations will be projected on a screen, so that fluent and not-so-fluent Spanish speakers will be able to get the general idea of what the lyrics are about.
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