The XV World Harp Festival begins with talks and concerts

This Friday officially kicks off the 15th edition of the World Harp Festival. For three days, the public will be able to enjoy free concerts and workshops for all ages, as well as a free meeting of musicians.

Sixto Corbalán, artistic director of the event, expressed emotion before another edition of the World Harp Festival: “We have artists for all musical tastes; It is a varied, wide, diverse, eclectic and very professional festival. The festival is the ideal moment to live the experience, during these three days, of listening to the harp in all its formats”.

Likewise, the organizers invite you to take advantage of the workshops, which are the academic ingredient of the festival.

Corbalán also highlights the crossing of artists: “It is a space that we created with our peñas in mind, which are very common in gatherings of popular musicians, others call it jam. Within the festival, this activity is a unique and unrepeatable moment, and it is becoming one of the distinctive elements of the event”.

The crossing will be on Saturday, October 8 at 11:30 p.m., at Jazz Cube, with the presentation of Band’Delaschicas and the festival’s artists, who will treat the public to a meeting that, in the words of Corbalán, is “an unexplored union and invites us to immerse ourselves in the magic of fusion”.

concert program

The gala on Friday, October 7 will begin at 8:00 p.m., at the Ignacio A. Pane Municipal Theater. The participation of Ismael Ledesma and the National Police Symphony Orchestra is expected; Rito Pedersen, Mercedes Ramírez, the Italians Giuliana de Donno & Ninfa Giannuzzi, and Marcelo Rojas and his group.

On Saturday, October 8, from 8:00 p.m., at the Ignacio A. Pane Municipal Theater with free admission, the artists Martín Portillo, Trioité, Sixto Corbalán & Pedro Martínez, Juanjo Corbalán Cuarteto and Edmar Castañeda (Colombia) & Hamilton from Holland (Brazil) will give concerts.

Later, at 11:30 pm, at Jazz Cube (Atrium Building, Guido Spano and Col. Cabrera), Band’Elaschicas will perform a concert, always with free admission.

On Sunday, October 9, at 6:30 p.m., the festival says goodbye with a luxury gala, in which they will take the stage of the Municipal Theater Ignacio A. Pane Alberto Benítez and his group Secuencias, María Belén Cristaldo Alvarenga, Víctor Simón and Los Ribereños Paraguayos, Elías Balbuena “El Bornero de Oro” and the Duo Quiñonez – Ayala, the Mexican group Tlen Huicani and Desi Larrosa and his group.

The World Harp Festival is presented by the National Secretariat of Culture, Itaipu Binacional and the National Directorate of Intellectual Property. Special thanks to the Municipality of Asunción for the free transfer of the Municipal Theater, to the Honorable Chamber of Senators, to Blue Caps, to the Embassy of Italy, to the Philharmonic Society of Asunción, to the Veracruzana University of Mexico, to the Binational Entity Yacyretá and Víctor González Acosta.

free workshops

Great harp artists will give innovative lectures completely free of charge, in the Sala Baudilio Alió of the Ignacio A. Pane Municipal Theater. Thus, on Friday, October 7, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., the Colombian artist Edmar Castañeda will speak about “Techniques applied to the basses of the harp”; then, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., the Brazilian Hamilton from Holland will speak on “Habits for an improvising musician”.

On Saturday, October 8, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., the Italian Giuliana de Donno & Ninfa Giannuzzi will play the theme “Songs, music and rhythms of southern Italy: stories of an ancient musical tradition”. Then, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., the members of the Mexican group Tlen Huicani will develop Techniques and repertoire of the Mexican harp. Singing and accompaniments”.

Those interested in participating can register at www.festivalmundialdelarpa.com.py With free entry.

a great story

Since 2007, the World Harp Festival has been a catwalk parade for about 120 local and foreign performers (from 15 different countries, with the characteristic type of harp). It is considered the most important harp event in the world. yes

Ixto Corbalán comments that, currently, interpreters of this instrument wish to participate in the outstanding international event, born from the hand of Ana Scappini, executive director; and Marlene Sosa Lugo, culture enthusiast. Both took the initiative of the harpist Rito Pedersen and together they sought to turn Asunción into the World Capital of the Harp.

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