The performance is part of the SonNa Festival organized by the Provincial Council of Huesca
Visible from the A-2 motorway, the village of Cardiel (Fraga) was important in antiquity—as it was located on the Roman road—and in medieval times, as a landmark on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela from the Mediterranean coast. Abandoned in the mid-20th century, it later became a filming location for Spaghetti Westerns, a genre that was filmed in Spain and Italy in the 1960s and 70s, resulting in more than 500 films.
Nearly 30 of those productions filmed exterior scenes in this area of Aragon, in places like Chalamera, Alcolea de Cinca or Ballobar, but especially in the village of Cardiel, 12 kilometers from Fraga towards Zaragoza.
There, between 1965 and 1972, the Balcázar brothers, together with the director and screenwriter F. Iquino, made two dozen films that alternated their filming between Esplugues de Llobregat, where the sets, the saloon, the barbershop or the watering trough were located, and the Fraga village of Cardiel, where the exteriors were filmed.
Among the films shot in Cardiel (Fraga), 'Pistoleros de Arizona' (1965), 'Una pistola para Ringo' (1965) and 'El retorno de Ringo' (1966) stood out, as well as 'Yankee', also from 1966, directed by the Italian Tinto Brass.
Soema Montenegro (Argentina)
They say that the Latin American land recites through her voice. Experimental singer and composer Soema Montenegro, from Buenos Aires, blends the sounds and images of the jungle, the desert, and the mountains with her original poetry to establish herself as a unique voice in the contemporary South American music scene.
The Argentinian artist fuses the diverse latitudes of Latin America into a musical whole that interprets folklore, native song, and urban music. A researcher of the Latin American voice, she recovers and teaches the ancestral, indigenous voice; the resonant song that emanates from the landscape. She is often referred to as a poet-shaman.
She was part of the female vocal improvisation trio Adivina, which became the basis of her experimental and research work, and the space where she trained in parallel with her studies in Musical Composition.
Radiant Circle (2023), her fifth album, after Uno Una Uno (2008), Passionaria (2011), Ave del Cielo (2014) and Camino a la Templenza (2019), is for her “an embrace of the territory”, an immersive sound ode to the sounds of Latin America, its landscapes and its people.
Fraga. Village of Cardiel
July 7th. 8:30 p.m.
Music. Capacity: 250
