The Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas (International Mine Singing Festival) celebrates its 40th birthday. RTVE-Música, in cooperation with the La Unión town council and the Caja de Ahorros de Murcia, will commemorate the anniversary with this Anthology that is imprescindible in the record collection of any true enthusiast. It is a CD that features mine and Andalusian cantes (styles), in a word, flamenco. The purest forms of cante jondo ( an expression used to refer to the deepest and purest forms of flamenco) performed in the Festival, from Eleuterio Andreu to Curro Piñana, including Antonio Piñana, Pencho Cros, Luis de Córdoba and Encarnación Fernández, among others.