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Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered during the Spanish Civil War, is the most beloved and influential of all modern poets. His reputation puts him as one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century. Passionate, urgent, haunting and evocative, Lorca also wrote dramatic, modernist plays which have been performed worldwide.
His Poems, beautifully translated by literary followers are the jewel of his work and until now only one has been set to music in English Take this Waltz by Leonard Cohen, in such admiration he named his Daughter Lorca.
This Concert of Lorca’s Poetry set to music is performed by Keith James and Rick Foot, acclaimed for their success with The Songs of Nick Drake.
The Poems will be mostly be sung in English with some verses in Spanish and to soften the challenge the evening will also include timeless material by Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Tim Buckley and of course Nick Drake.
The evening performance will be proceeded by an acclaimed film Garcia Lorca - A Death in Grenada
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