The San Roque Jazz Festival closes this Saturday with Arturo Cid Plays

The VI San Roque Jazz Festival faces its last night this Saturday, November 7, at the Teatro Juan Luis Galiardo. At 20.30 hours the jazz and blues concert by Arturo Cid Plays is scheduled, with saxophonist Arturo Cid Franco at the helm. He will be accompanied on guitar by Antonio Molina, on piano by Álex Serrano, on double bass by Dani Levy and on drums by Guillermo «Giggs» Nother. As detailed by the Delegación de Cultura, Cid was a pioneer in Granada not only of jazz, but also of rock, and collaborated with the groups TNT, Los Lagartos and La Guardia. The event comes after this Friday, November 6, the festival was opened by the show «New York Flamenco Reunion», by drummer Marc Miralta, together with Álex Conde on piano, Pedro Cortejosa on sax, Miguel Álvarez on double bass and Bandolero on percussion. The project marks 25 years since the release of its first album and proposes one of the first organic fusions of jazz drums with flamenco. San Roque is one of the few locations where this tour has been scheduled, along with Sevilla and the Teatro Falla de Cádiz.

The two nights of the festival are part of the XI Festival San Roque Suena, which brings together five concerts during this month of November. The programme began on Thursday, November 5, with the concert by O Sister! for schoolchildren, within the Abecedaria circuit, with the proposal «eJazz: Mujeres que hicieron historia» on the origins of jazz. Next week, on Thursday, November 12, at 20.30 hours, the Galiardo will host the early music concert by Veterum Musicae, with the programme «La voz que aún resuena. Mujeres en las tres culturas», dedicated to the role of women in Christian, Jewish and Muslim Spain. The programme will conclude on Saturday, November 21, at 20.30 hours with the Algeciras-born pianist Diego Valdivia and his show «Aromas del sur», in sextet format with violin, viola, percussion and acoustic guitar, together with dancer Laura Martínez. The festival is organised by the Delegación de Cultura de San Roque, directed by deputy mayor Ana Ruiz, with the collaboration of Rizoma Records, the Red Andaluza de Teatros Públicos and Empresa Multimedia.