Live music and stuff in Las Palmas, July 2024

This is what we’ve seen in July. Sketches and photos by Tamara.

• 3 July: «Ecos de Canarias y Piazzolla» @ Palacete Rodríguez Quegles, Calle Benito Pérez Galdós, 4, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  Trío Gabriel Rodó featuring Ana Marrero (piano), Liliana Mesa Montané (violin) and Berenice Musa (soprano).

  

• 5 July: Sofar concert @ Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Calle de los Balcones, 9
  This is the very first time I went to a Sofar event and loved it, even at the cost of missing the last part of Spain—Germany football game. Featuring Kimera, Shango Dely and Nala Rami; each band played for about 30 minutes.
• 6 July: «Iron Modvm» @ Auditorio José Antonio Ramos, Parque Doramas
  A show by the Barcelona-based company Iron Skulls, plus some guest breakdance battles.

  

• 7 July: «De la ópera al jazz» @ Sala Gabriel Rodó
  The concert by La Banda Sinfónica Municipal de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Conductor: Pedro Vicente Alama Soloist: Aitor Llimerá Galduf (oboe). Called “from opera to jazz”, it’s probably better described by “from Bach to Gershwin”.

  

• 10 July: «Orpheus» @ Sala Gabriel Rodó
  A live cinema event where Insectotròpics (Barcelona) reinterpret the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice by reviewing the concepts of love, life and death via the virual reality glasses. With guest (on-screen) appearance of Mr. B., Mr. G., Mr. M. and Mr. Z.

  

• 11 July: «Los Pfeiffer» @ Sala Gabriel Rodó
  A show by La Troupe Malabó (Castellón) featuring Laura Agustí (violin, soprano), Quique Montoya (clown), Mae Puchalt (violin), Sonia Tabares (viola) and Alberto Zente (cello).

  

• 12 July: «R.E.M.» @ Sala Gabriel Rodó
  A show by La Trócola Circ (Alicante).

  

• 13 July: «Invitación a la danza» @ Terminal de Contenedores del Muelle de La Luz (Grupo Boluda)
  Music by Tchaikovsky (Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake), Prokofiev (Romeo and Juliet), Johann Strauss (Voices of Spring, Czardas), plus encores: Aquarela do Brasil and Cancan, performed by La Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria. Conductor: Karel Mark Chichon. Dancers: Sae Maeda and Harris Bell, The Royal Ballet.

  

• 19 July: «Ovvio» @ Auditorio José Antonio Ramos
  I saw this show by Kolektiv Lapso Cirk some five years ago in Santander and thoroughly enjoyed it. But I can’t be in two places at the same time. So Tamara and Timur went to see Ovvio and I went to see Rubén Rodríguez.



• 19 July: Notas de Verano en Colón: Rubén Rodríguez @ Casa de Colón, Calle Colón, 1
  A concert of the Canarian singer-songwriter Rubén Rodríguez (guitar, vocals) accompanied by Abraham Ramos (timple).

  

• 19 July: «Echassiers du Togo» @ Parque Doramas
  A fantastic performance by the Togolese stilt-walkers collective Afuma.

  

• 19 July: Sylphes @ Plaza de Santa Ana
  An incredibly beautiful aerial ballet from Italy provided a fitting closure of this year’a TEMUDAS Fest.

  

Three double bills from 33^rd Canary Islands Jazz Festival:

• 25 July: Perinké Big Band & Adédèji @ Plaza de Santa Ana
  Perinké Big Band led by Ximo Martínez presented their show Fiebre de Mambo feauring vocals of Marieme Herrera and Sofiel del Pino.

  

  Adédèji is an Afro-beat band from Nigeria featuring Adédèjì Adetayo (guitars, lead vocals), Ebun Arowosegbe (vocals), Mary Sobowale (vocals, violin), Abiodun ‘Wura’ Oke (percussion), Oluwasegun Adebuyi (bass), Ralph Lasisi (tenor sax), Victor Ademofe (trumpet), Samuel Obinna (drums) and Samuel Olawale (keyboards). I should have stayed longer for that one!
• 26 July: Theo Croker & Ana Popovic @ Plaza de Santa Ana
  Theo Croker (trumpet) accompanied by Idris Frederik (piano, keyboards), Miguel Marcel Russell (drums) and Eric Wheeler (double bass); Ana Popovic (guitar, vocals) with Claudio Giovagnoli (sax), Davide Ghidoni (trumpet), Corey LaDell Burns (bass), Michele Papadia (keyboards) and Jeremy Thomas (drums, vocals).
• 27 July: Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet & Polo Ortí New Project @ Plaza de Santa Ana
  Jonathan Kreisberg (electric guitar), Marko Churnchetz (piano), Luca Alemanno (double bass) and Colin Stranahan (drums); Polo Ortí (piano, keyboards), Chipi Chacón (trumpet), Samuel Kèri (electric bass) and Naíma Acuña (drums).

And an exhibition:

• 25 July — 16 August: «Exposición Gran Canaria de Series de Obra Gráfica 2023» @ Centro de Artes Plásticas (CAP), Calle Colón, 8
  ...where you can see some engravings by Tamara.

  

All the events listed here were free of charge apart from «Invitación a la danza» which cost €15 a ticket.