A Cartuja Center full of people with all places are sold On the afternoon of December 26, I realized how much Seville is dedicated to Christmas. With Christmas and with its most Andalusian music. The one in Jerez … La Frontera, in particular, whose zambombas have become the event par excellence of the Christmas festivities which, paradoxically, are becoming more and more global. Against this the spectacle is erected This is how Jerez sings at Christmaswhich does not require a cover letter.
This group of more than twenty people on stage with Luis de Perikín at the helm He returns to Seville for the first of his three concerts, spread over three Christmas afternoons. This year’s edition, entitled “The party is here”, saw spectators of all ages clapping their hands from the first moment of the uninterrupted hour and a half concert.
The show was divided into two distinct parts. The first consisted of Christmas carols from the members of the show, with the firsts of this year in different styles of flamenco that crossed the artists’ voicesby Manuela Chica and Gema Carpio for the tangos in Joselete, el Nono, the Junquera sisters, Manuel de Cantarote for the bulerías, Junquera and Junquerita or Manuela Fernández. One of these premieres, “Niño de Belén”, a Christmas carol which, although unpublished until 2025, retains all the flavor of the songs of Jerez for the birth of God.
A success December after December
After the applause that filled the hall at each performance, Así canta Jerez en Navidad thanked for the three consecutive years in which they filled the hall, this year for three consecutive functions: “Without you we would be absolutely nobody.” A true mass phenomenon that brought the popular and spontaneous singing of the zambombas of Jerez to stages throughout Spain, to the point of creating a new and updated repertoire every year for the most unconditional fans.
“Do you want to make a fuss? But do you know what problem I’m talking to you about? The public knew this well and were devoted to the palms and olives of a show that celebrates its three decades next year and that, as announced during the concert, ticket sales for next year will be open on Easter Sunday. That’s how the afternoon unfolded, with plenty of moments of audience interaction, like when attendees were asked to raise their cell phones with their flashlights held high while they sang a cappella.
The last part of the concert was ultimate symbiosis between the members of Así canta Jerez en Navidad and the public, since, gathered around a table and with a lot of dancing, they sang some of the most popular Christmas carols in Jerezamong which ‘tiene María’, ‘En un canasto’ or ‘Agua fresco’, with an end to the party with bulerías in which even a little boy from the stands named Adrián dared to go on stage to dance with the protagonists of the party. A very festive celebration which showed that Andalusian popular singing is very strong in the era of commercial pop and reggaeton.
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