Live music and stuff in Las Palmas and Santander, April 2022

April came and April went. Here’s a summary:

• 1 April: Cuarto Burlé @ Auditorio José Antonio Ramos, Parque Doramas, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  Cuarto Burlé, a reincarnation of Flor de Canela, was playing as a part of the clown festival «Mujeres con narices». Xerach Peñate (drums, vocals), Núria Balaguer (vocals, percussion), Marta Bautista (bass, vocals, percussion), Paula Vegas (keyboards, vocals, percussion) and Dani Barcala (guitar).

  

• 6 April: «Herencia flamenca» @ Palacete Rodríguez Quegles, calle Benito Pérez Galdós, 4
  The first show from the cycle «Acento flamenco» featured Miguel Carmona (cante, cajón), Antonio Heredia (guitar) and Laura Heredia (baile).



• 9 April: Musicando @ Auditorio José Antonio Ramos
  Musicando is 100 — well, not years, but 100 concerts since it started in 2016. The 100^th Musicando concert featured Osvaldo Hernández (drums), Néstor García (guitar), Diego Martín (flute), Leandro Ojeda (bass), Totó Noriega (percussion), Yone Rodríguez (musical direction, timple and guitar), Josué Santana (piano); the singers Patricia Muñoz, Mara Pérez, Iván Quintana and Fabiola Trujillo; Yul Ballesteros (guitar), Hirahi Afonso (timple), Miguel Afonso (accordeon); Mojito con Morena (Totó Noriega, Sofiel Del Pino, Marta Bautista and Carlos Martín Brito); verseadores Yeray Rodríguez, Luz Mila Valerón, Francisco Sánchez and students of CEIP Santa Bárbara.

Back (or forward?) to Santander...

• 4 March — 1 May: «Piel y pulpa» @ El Palacete del Embarcadero, Muelle de Calderón, Santander
  An intriguing exposition by the Basque artist Marisa González.

  

• 20 April: Antonio Gamaza Quartet @ Rvbicón, Calle del Sol, 4
  Antonio Gamaza (piano), Roberto Gamaza (drums), Iván San Miguel (double bass) and Javier San Miguel (saxophones). The complete concert is available here.

  

• 24 April: MAR (Micrófono Abierto Rvbicón) @ Rvbicón
  MAR is back! That evening, I felt rather tired and didn’t stay for long (they started about 21:45 instead of 21:00), but I fully intend to come again next time.

  

• 28 April: MAES Quartet @ Rvbicón
  A young band from San Sebastian playing hard bop standards. Featuring Nicolás Alvear (guitar), Eneko Arbea (drums), Mikel Legasa (piano) and Jorge Luengo (bass). Watch the full concert here.

  

• 30 April: Antonio Canales @ Plaza Porticada
  Throughout the Saturday, there were a number of activities dedicated to the International Dance Day, culminating in a sevillana “flashmob” featuring about 500 dance school students and Antonio Canales. Granted, it was not a real flashmob as “a group of people who rapidly assemble, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act, and then quickly disperse” — there was nothing rapid about either assembly or dispersal of this crowd, and the event was advertised many days before, and I reckon those who invited Canales must have felt they were getting very little value for money. (It was free for the onlookers like me.) Still, it was nice to see so many dancers enjoying themselves.

  

Looking forward to more music in May.