Source: Agencies
The 38th edition of the Jazz Festival of Cartagena has been closed this weekend with the performances of Richard Bona and Femi Kuti, showing that it is a consolidated event since more than ten thousand people have attended the different concerts that have been held. «We are living a great moment in the jazz festival and is that three basic aspects of any event are united: public support, good journalist criticism and good box offices» has highlighted the Councilor for Culture of the City of Cartagena, David Martínez Noguera.
This has been the last program prepared by Paco Martín, who died last summer and for this reason «it has been a very special festival for us, we wanted everything to go as well as possible and we have achieved it.» The public has also supported the programming of Paco as always has done, going to a festival that has gathered almost ten thousand people between official activities such as street and in rooms, «remarked the Councilor for Culture.
This year fifty tickets were sold more than in the last edition, reaching 250, and sold out in just a week, which confirms that the festival has a loyal audience that comes to enjoy jazz greats and be surprised with the most unknown artists.
To the success of the most consolidated actions, we add the ones that have been held on the street. «All the street performances have been very successful, the mornings of these Saturdays the Plaza del Icue was full of public both Cartagena and visitors, we have given an image of Cartagena as a dynamic city of Culture. music and culture to more people, better, and we are getting it «said David Martínez.
The concerts that have been held in the Off section of the festival have had the support of the public, since all have achieved the full.
«The national media as always have been made of what has happened in Cartagena these days, appearing our festival in El País, El Cultural de El Mundo, ABC, Radio3, Rockdelux and in numerous media that endorse the quality of our festival «the councilor also commented.