Free live music and stuff in Las Palmas and around, June 2024

This is what we’ve seen in June. Sketches by Tamara.

• 1 June: Paco Perera @ Auditorio José Antonio Ramos, Parque Doramas, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  A folk-jazz-rock fusion collective featuring Paco Perera (vocals, electric bass, whistle), Jacqueline García Álamo (laúd, timple, vocals), Kimberly Hernández (bandurria, vocals), Chago Miranda (electric uitar), Luis Sánchez Guerra (keys), Rayco Gil (percussion, samplers) and Carlos Pérez Peñalver (drums). The last Musicando concert this season.

  

• 5 June: «Tránsito» @ Palacete Rodríguez Quegles, Calle Benito Pérez Galdós, 4
  A percussion recital by Paco Navarro and David Hernández (bongos, congas, drums, marimba, vibraphone).

  

• 12 June: Encuentros con grabadores: Gabriel Ávalos @ Casa de Colón, Calle Colón, 1
  A presentation by the Mexican engraver Gabriel Ávalos.

  

• 14 June: Pregón de las Fiestas Fundacionales de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2024 @ Plaza de Santa Ana
  The official opening of Fiestas fundacionales 2024, with a short introduction by the mayor, Carolina Darias, and not-so-short talk (30+ minutes!) by Flora Pescador. Naturally, I came there for something else: a concert of the Banda Sinfónica Municipal de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria & Banda Juvenil de Música de Firgas, conducted by Pilar Rodríguez.

• 15 June: XVI Noche de Boleros @ Plaza de Santa Ana
  Featuring Margot García, Manuel Estupiñán, Los que no escarmientan and Luis Villa with Trío Estelar.

  

• 18 June: Luis Alejandro García «Ensueño» @ Casa de Colón
  An evening of Romantic guitar music. The programme included:
  • Napoléon Coste: Fantaisie Dramatique “Le Départ”, Op. 31
  • Fernando Sor: Fantaisie élégiaque, op. 59
  • Giulio Regondi: Nocturne “Rêverie”, op. 19
  • Mauro Giuliani: Rossiniana I, op. 119
  • Franz Schubert, arranged by Johann Kaspar Mertz: 6 Schubert’sche Lieder für die Guitare, no. 3: Aufenthalt (encore)

  

• 19 June: Cuarteto Vivaldianas @ Palacete Rodríguez Quegles
  With Anabel Estévez Acosta (violin), Gema Barragán Pulido (violin), Óscar Guerra Suárez (violin) and Marisa Roda Pujol (cello).

  

• 19 June: «Tinder» @ Teatro Guiniguada, Plaza F. Mesa de León
  Based on the play by Xavi Morató and interpreted by Comi-K Teatro (Lanzarote). Actors: Begoña Cedrés, Aytami Mesa, Yurena Martín, Matías Di Candia, Sara Fernández. Directed by Alby Robayna. This was the first of the three amateur theatre performances hosted by Teatro Guiniguada.

  

• 21 June: «Música en el corazón de Vegueta» @ Vegueta, various locations
  We went to see Leçons de tenebres feat. Magdalena Padilla (soprano), David Batista (countertenor), Yurena Darias (viola da gamba) and Vicent Bru (harpsichord) in Patio de los Naranjos; Mónica Santana band in Casa de Colón; and Puertas al Sur feat. Beatriz Alonso and Miguel Manescau in Patio de Colegio de abogados, Plaza de San Agustín.

  

• 22 June: Nabucco @ Plaza del Tenor Stagno
  I have to confess that I was not even aware of this opera until now. Featuring Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar (Nabucco), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Abigaille), Fleuranne Brockway (Fenena), Fabián Lara (Ismaele), Abramo Rosalen (Zaccaria), Eduvigis Sánchez (Anna), Jeroboám Tejera (High priest of Bel) and Gabriel Álvarez (Abdallo).
  This was first time ever we went to see the live screening of the opera at the back of the Teatro Pérez Galdós, although they do it every year, about this time. It’s a nice initiative called «Ópera para todos». There’s no pleasing some people: one guy complained on Facebook that this freebie is unfair towards those who paid loads of dough to get inside the theatre. Maybe he was right: we saw on the screen the close-ups, the orchestra pit and Spanish subtitles; I’m not sure you can see that in the theatre. The opera lasts some 3 hours, so when we got tired, we just went home. Again, I doubt that people who paid €100 for a ticket would do that. So unfair.

  

• 26 June: «Van der Does y Cairasco de Figueroa: entre holandeses y grancanarios, 425 años» @ Plaza Santa Ana
  A night walk commemorating the 1599 attack by the Dutch fleet led by Pieter van der Does. With participation of La Asociación para la Divulgación de la Historia de Canarias (ADHICA).
• 29—30 June: «Recreación histórica de la Batalla del Batán» @ Finca El Galeón, Santa Brígida
  Continuing with history of the 1599 Dutch attack: a reenactment of the Battle of Batán (3 July 1599) in Santa Brígida, organised by ADHICA.

  

  

And exhibitions:

• 16 May — 1 September: «Creando Colección» @ Casa de Colón
  Acquisitions for the Museums of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria.

• 6 June — 19 July: «Arraigos» @ Centro Cultural CICCA, Alameda de Colon, 1
  Paintings by Mercedes Mariño (Mirazo).

  

• 7 June — 27 July: La exposición de acuarelas @ Casa Gourié. Museo Municipal de Arucas, Arucas
  Watercolours by la Asociación Canaria de Acuarelistas, with two works by Tamara.