On guitar, Fernando Rivera Calderón will perform a musical tour with his colleague, Chilean Manuel García, where both will emphasize their passion for music and the ties of their unbreakable friendship.
In the concert La canción nos mover that will have an unrepeatable presentation at the Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, next Friday, Rivera Calderón, known by his musical alter ego called Monocordio, will perform with his guest songs of love and heartbreak, of memory and struggle, tributes to great masters of song, as well as a talk in the warmth of guitars.
The writer and host talked about the show that he will star in together with Manuel García, who has become one of the most important references of Latin American song and this is how El Caminante returns to the country to perform for the second time at the Donceles venue.
At the concert, García will review some of his well-known songs such as La danza de las libélulas, Medusa, Hablar de ti, Tanto creo en ti and El reproche, a song that Manuel and Fernando recorded in a duet for the album El caminandonte. For his part, the Mexican will delight with his compositions such as Siempre te busqué, Escalera, Triste pero feliz and Me haces existencia, among others.
Regarding the union between Chile and Mexico, Rivera Calderón said: “Over the course of almost a decade we have cultivated a beautiful musical friendship and we will take a tour of several of the most important songs of Manuel and myself, as well as some premieres, dialogues and several surprises. It will be a night of reunion between friends, which we will share as if all those who attend were in the living room of the house listening to our songs.”
The composer said: “we are both brothers of songs, but from countries that share pain, wounds, even earthquakes; We have many things in common and part of the leitmotiv of the concert is that we have both said that we are like twin brothers. In the evening, not only physical affinities will emerge, but also those of our cultures; it will be a review of the Chilean soul and emotion with an heir to Violeta Parra or Victor Jara.”
While “my songs, although they come from rock, have a strong heritage of traditional Mexican popular music. So the concert will be a beautiful journey through the soul of both nations, which are so endearing.”
Eternal companion
Regarding the guitar, his eternal companion, Rivera Calderón said: “this instrument is so many things. From the start it has been a lifeline in adolescence because it meant a lot to a shy, introspective boy who had a hard time relating: it was my great shield and defense against the world. Over the years it has become an inseparable love.”
The guitar, he added, “is flexible, it adapts to all genres; From the most romantic or painful love song to the political, protest, scientific or didactic one that I like to do with Pepe Gordon, but I also like the themes that resort to criticism. With this magical national and democratic instrument I try to understand reality and the world in which I live.”
García and Rivera are, this first week of August, in Paracho, Michoacán, at an event of luthier workshops, where they had a presentation, as a rehearsal, in preparation for the concert at the Esperanza Iris.
Rivera Calderón will release in October a new album, Buscar sin buscar, by Monocordio; in addition to continuing to write and direct the Operación Mamut program on Canal Once, where he has spent three years “making humor and not war.” With his free time, the musician said that he is immersed in the writing of two novels and with the presentations of his book of poems that he has made in various entities of the country.
Manuel García and Fernando Rivera Calderón. The song that moves us will be presented on August 9 at 8 p.m. at the Esperanza Iris City Theater, located at Donceles 36, Historic Center, Metro Allende.
Source: jornada
