Unusual picture starring the kings this afternoon in Cádiz. Felipe VI to the drawer and Letizia to the palms. This is how we’ve been in a position to see them in Cádiz, in a preferred cajoneada organized by the Instituto Cervantes and the Cádiz City Council on the event of the XI Congress of the Spanish Language. The spontaneity of the kings has been reciprocated by the nice and cozy applause of these current.
The appointment was at 6:30 p.m. in entrance of the Falla Theater within the capital of Cadiz. It was an exercise that anybody keen to play the cajón and comply with the rhythm might join. In complete about 60 spontaneous ones have joined. The stamp has been seen by Don Felipe and Doña Letizia they usually haven’t hesitated to enroll. The king sitting on a field and following the rhythm for a couple of moments amidst the laughter and complicity of the contributors, whereas the queen, additionally sitting on a field, most well-liked to accompany her by clapping.
This cajoneada goals to commemorate the origin of the flamenco cajón. In 1977, when Paco de Lucía found this instrument, the cajón, on a tour of America in Peru, the sound caught his consideration and he started to play the guitar with it.
With 64 cajons, which have been performed concurrently in a big group of contributors, completely different kinds of flamenco have been interpreted, all the time guided by conductors. The public that has attended accompanies with toes and palms the proposed rhythms to dialogue with the contributors.
The conductors have been the percussionists El Guille (Spain) and Mario Cubillas (Peru) who hyperlink their exhibition with the inaugural present ‘Tempo de Luz’, on the Gran Teatro Falla –and which was additionally attended by the King and Queen– giving the relieved the percussionist Paquito González.