Tíjola goes gospel: Coro Góspel Clasijazz gives an educational concert at the Sala Polivalente this Sunday
Tíjola hosts an educational concert by the Coro Góspel Clasijazz and Noemí Pérez this Sunday at 17:00, part of the Provincial Council’s ‘Ilusionando con el Jazz’.
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Tíjola is getting ready to experience gospel as a community. This Sunday, 4 October, at 17:00, the Sala Polivalente (multi-purpose hall) hosts an educational concert by the Coro Góspel Clasijazz (Clasijazz Gospel Choir) and its director, Noemí Pérez. It is one of the events in ‘Ilusionando con el Jazz’, the project through which Almería Provincial Council, together with Clasijazz, brings this genre to the towns and villages of the province.
It will not be a run-of-the-mill concert. The idea, according to the Provincial Council, is for the audience to discover where gospel comes from, how its rhythms and harmonies are built and what makes it so special. The choir is made up of singers from Almería and directed by Noemí Pérez, who brings with her more than a decade of experience in New York.
“We are going to live an experience as a community and to bring music as a community, which is what a choir is,” Pérez explained at the presentation of the programme. There, she said that the educational concerts in Tíjola and Vélez Rubio will serve to create “very special moments as a community”.
Jazz also stops in Serón and Macael
Tíjola is not the only town in the Valley on this programme. In September, as part of the Circuito Provincial de Jazz (Provincial Jazz Circuit), Serón welcomed Antonio Lizana, one of the best-known figures in flamenco jazz. And Macael will round off ‘Ilusionando con el Jazz’ on Saturday 24 October, at 19:30, with a session alongside the Combos de Clasijazz, ensembles in which musicians from the province’s bands play.
In all, eleven Almería municipalities are taking part this year in a programme which, according to Pablo Mazuecos, founder of Clasijazz, is turning fifteen and “was a pioneer in Spain in bringing these kinds of music to the province”. Mazuecos highlighted that these circuits have produced young people who are now studying and finishing their degrees in cities such as Amsterdam or Rotterdam. A seed that is also being planted in the villages.
Put it in your diary
- What: educational concert by the Coro Góspel Clasijazz and Noemí Pérez.
- When: Sunday 4 October, at 17:00.
- Where: Sala Polivalente, Tíjola.
- Organised by: Almería Provincial Council, as part of ‘Ilusionando con el Jazz’.
From elValle Actualidad, here is your advance notice: on Sunday afternoon, Tíjola sounds like gospel.
