Benito Cabrera, Domingo Rodríguez 'El Colorao', Germán López, Yone Rodríguez and Althay Páez will be the protagonists
The musical show Timples@2021 will arrive during the month of December to five new stages after its premiere in June of this year at the Pérez Galdós Theater. This production features the leading participation of five of the best timplistas in the Canary Islands, Benito Cabrera, Domingo Rodríguez 'El Colorao', Germán López, Yone Rodríguez y Althay Paez, who share the stage with a band made up of about 20 musicians.
The Las Tirajanas Auditorium of ExpoMeloneras will mark the start of this new journey of Timples@2021 on December 10, in a concert scheduled by the Department of Culture of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, directed by Elena Espino; a day later it will travel to Lanzarote, where it will be performed at the El Salinero Theater (Arrecife); On December 16, it will land in Fuerteventura, at the Training and Congress Palace (Puerto del Rosario); On the 19th of the same month, a very special concert will arrive at the Teatro Circo de Marte (Santa Cruz de La Palma), which will have a special dedication to all those affected by the Cumbre Vieja volcano; and on the 26th, to the Tenerife Auditorium. Tickets can be purchased at each of the portals of each venue.
Timples@2021 It also has an outstanding team in the production section, which includes Miguel Ramírez (artistic and production director); and José Brito (musical and artistic director, who lead this musical project that aims to continue the one that premiered on December 28, 1999 at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, Timples@2000, which brought together on the same stage three of the most important musicians that our popular music has produced, Benito Cabrera, Domingo Rodríguez 'El Colorao' and José Antonio Ramos. With a renewed cast and new arrangers, Timples@2021 incorporates the imprint of three timples who contemplated that first experience from the stalls, at just 14 years old, Germán López, Althay Páez and Yone Rodríguez.
Two decades later, Timples@2021 updates the evolution of the timple with five of the best performers of the instrument, through 15 songs that will confirm the evolution of the sound of the timple in this time. Tradition and contemporaneity go hand in hand again, in an encounter between the sounds of roots music, jazz, classical music and improvisation with the timple as the protagonist vehicle, a direct witness of the transit of our roots in these first years of the new millenium.
The songs, carefully chosen, have been arranged for the occasion by Manuel Bonino, Carlos Vega, Yul Ballesteros and José Brito, respecting the value of popular music with jazzy and contemporary airs.
This show is sponsored by the councils of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Tenerife and La Palma; municipalities of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Santa Cruz de La Palma; Ministry of Tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands; Promotion Society of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Canarian Television; and Canaluz.
BIOGRAPHIES
timple soloist and folklorist, Benito Cabrera He has been the first performer to have brought the timple to the symphonic field, performing numerous concerts and recordings with groups such as the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, the Córdoba Symphony Orchestra or the Galicia Symphony Orchestra. Apart from offering recitals throughout the islands and participating in macro-festivals such as Womad, Atlántica or Son Latinos, he has performed in the most important cities in Spanish territory, as well as in other countries. He has released nine recordings as a timple soloist, which combine trends ranging from folk, classical music and pop. Likewise, his task of dissemination and didacticism has been reflected in the edition of several ethnographic research books, in several encyclopedias on Canarian culture and in the creation of two methods (one of them audiovisual) that have been published for learning the timple. . During 2007 he toured the United States and took charge of the musical direction of the legendary group Los Sabandeños, a task he carried out until 2021. He currently directs the Timple House-Museum in Teguise (Lanzarote) and carries out various projects with various groups.
Sunday Rodriguez, popularly The Colorao, was born in 1964 in Vega de Tetir, Fuerteventura, into a humble family of folk musicians. His musical interests took him to Paris in 1985 where he began his classical guitar studies with maestro Blas Sánchez, later moving to Madrid to work on the guitar with Jorge Cardoso. In 1990 he moved permanently to the Canary Islands where he began teaching folklore and guitar courses. Although he had always played the timple, it was in 1992 that he began his career as a performer of this instrument, performing in most of the theaters and auditoriums of the Canary Islands. He has taken his timple around the world, he has released three CDs, 'El Timple' in 1995, 'Timpliando' in 1999 and 'Aulaga' in 2003, also collaborating on multiple recordings by important Canarian artists. He is the first timplist to publish a Timple method in solfeistic writing with scales, studies, exercises and simple works.
german lopez He was born in Gran Canaria in 1983 and began performing in public at a very early age. In 2006 he released his first solo album,Timplissimo, produced by Jose Antonio Ramos. Since then, he has participated in many festivals. In 2011 he recorded with Yul Ballesteros Something Stupid. In 2013 and 2014 she went on tour to present her fourth CD, Root. He regularly collaborates with groups such as Mestisay, Taburiente, Luis Morera ('Morera y López'), Domingo El Colorao ('Malpaís')... His participation in the “Opening Concert” of Womex 2014 stands out. In 2015 he edits together with Yul Ballesteros Don't Worry Be Happy'and participate in the project Timples and Other Small Guitars of the World. His last album, Cinnamon and Lemon, he recorded it with the Cádiz guitarist Antonio Toledo.
At seven years old, Yone Rodríguez He started playing the timple and decided to continue his training with teachers such as Néstor García, Domingo Rodríguez and, above all, his greatest reference, José Antonio Ramos. At the age of eleven he released his first album, The other side (2001). His three subsequent albums -Colours (2009) Living(2012) and Seed (2020) - show his evolution and the improvement of a musician who has not stopped growing. He has been part of the Timples Orchestra of the Canary Islands and forms the show together with Germán López, Althay Páez and Beselch Rodríguez Timples and other small guitars of the world.
Born in Fuerteventura, Althay Paez He has a devilish interpretation technique. Among his contemporaries he is recognized as a virtuoso of the Canarian instrument, both for his technical abilities and for the state of mind he brings to his instrument in his live performances. It brings together very powerful accents related to tradition and, yet, with a spirit of contemporaneity that makes it unique and extraordinary in the panorama of instrumental music in the Canary Islands. He has published an album, Sostiene Pereira, recorded between Lisbon and the Canary Islands with the Portuguese musician Julio Pereira, innovator of the Portuguese cavaquinho.
