These are exciting times for Broughton resident Valentina Montoya Martinez, a singer described by the Scotsman as 'combining passion, sensuality and musical intelligence' and 'a dazzling performer with a world-class voice'.
Originally a political refugee from Pinochet's Chile in the 1970s, she grew up in an exiled community in Britain for whom music was a vital bond with home.
In the years since, she has forged a great reputation for songs of love, longing and social change, most set in the folk music and tango traditions of Latin America.
Later this month, Valentina and the Voces del Sur will support the first Scottish concerts in 20 years by Chilean musical legends Quilapayún at the Picture House on 19 April.
Then, on 16 May, Montoya Martinez will add to a list of other fruitful collaborations with Mr McFall's Chamber to sing the lead role in Astor Piazzolla's 'mini-opera biopic' Maria de Buenos Aires in the Queen's Hall.
This concert performance (with cabaret seating) will launch a CD of the 'tango masterpiece'.
Valentina and the Voces del Sur began their Edinburgh career at the Bongo Club, created by Dalmeny Street's Out of the Blue, but had soon graduated to the dizzy heights of Montoya Martinez's local – the (now defunct) Hopetoun Inn.
Here, Fiona Watt reviewed them in August 2006 (Issue 139), enthusing about a 'foot-stomping, gut-rattling couple of sets, winning over the startled locals and causing an outbreak of peculiar gyrating from men in flip flops and shorts'.
If you would like to dust-off your flip flops (or any other items of footwear) and reacquaint yourself with the 'hook riffs and rhythms of the deep heart of South America', Spurtle has a pair of tickets for the Picture House gig to give away.
Send us your name and email address. Two winners will be drawn from a shooglie hat on Wednesday 10 April.
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