Manrique Stage: eleven days to go crazy for music

From here, from my house, I see the empty beach, I was already a few days ago now it is full of rain. So says the first line of ‘Turnedo’, one of the songs, already converted into a generational hymn, which Ivan Ferreiro intones every time he stands in front of the audience. However, when the Galician singer climbs to the Manrique Stage, he will suffer a painful disappointment because he will not be able to find water falling from the sky nor a uninhabited Reducto.

In this case his lyrics, voted by Rolling Stone magazine as the best Spanish song of the century, does not serve as a premonition. But it is not a bad idea to play the auguries. Manes to the wind, smiling faces, conscious dances and attentive ears on the long stretch of clean, golden sand of the beach that adorns Arrecife. Knowing Lanzarote’s taste for outdoor music, this foreshadowing does have many more opportunities to be fulfilled.

Ferreiro and 400 other artists in twenty concerts will rise in the Manrique Stage to celebrate, for 11 consecutive days, the start of the celebration of the centenary of the birth of the most universal Canarian artist. The list made up of the confirmed bands and soloists will make of Escenario Manrique a place for the meeting and the enjoyment at the same time as they will serve as the perfect starting point for a year full of tributes.

Martí Perarnau is the leader and singer of Mucho, a band that will perform the hits of their four albums on the same day as the former Los Piratas vocalist. “The feeling is that being successful means reaching more people better and not so much making a good song,” Martí said in an interview in the year 2017. This declaration of intentions makes the leitmotif of the band very clear at the time to compose songs. This pretension is translated into lyrics full of subtle criticism wrapped in a sonority that invites abstraction and dance. “I want to stand when I arrive” repeats Perarnau in the refrain of one of his hits. The public that congregates in the appointment with Mucho will also want to be for a long time.

Bella Ciao

If a Spanish television series can say that it has truly succeeded in recent years, that is La Casa de Papel, winner of the International Emmy for best drama and that has hit the home armchair to millions of viewers around the world managing to become, even in the most-watched non-English-speaking series in history on the Netflix online audiovisual content platform.

During the development of the plot, a song connects the protagonists who are perpetrating, within the plot, the biggest theft that has occurred in Spain. If things go well they inton the Bella ciao.
It is a popular song sung by Italian partisans during the Second World War when they fought against Nazi and Fascist troops. The propagation of this song was swift in all the regions that saw how they had to fight against totalitarianisms. And of course, he also arrived in the Balkans.
From the Sarajevo region, today Bosnia-Herzegovina, but Yugoslavia at the time of his birth, is the total musician Goran Bregovic. And there is no Bosnian concert in which all his musicians and all the public in chorus with him sing with all the energy of which the already mythical lyrics of the partisan Bella Ciao are capable. The world also knows him for being the composer of the soundtrack of the filmography of Emir Kusturica. The sounds of Slavic, Byzantine, Turkish and Zingaro folklore mixed with traditional rock promises to be a main course at Escenario Manrique.

A guitar born from the volcano

Possibly Diego Barber today is known more in the streets of Manhattan than in those of Arrecife. The Lanzarote guitarist lives in New York since 2009 when he traveled to the capital of the world to record his album Calima. Since then his rise in the jazz genre has been dazzling.

All About Jazz magazine once wrote of him being “known for the grandeur and majesty of his performance.” He added: “The impressive dynamics and exquisiteness of Diego Barber’s expression are deeply rooted in an extraordinary technique.” As this review you can find dozens in specialized media.In the year 2017, the Akademia Music Awards of Los Angeles awarded their album One minute later as the best jazz album. Nothing more to add.

Endless activity

Escenario Manrique will turn on its sound and lights machine on Wednesday, April 24, with the show The Illusion of César.To his platform will be up until May 5 the artists already named more Maru Cabrera, Taburiente, Canary Workshop, Misfits, Vault Coffin, Toñín Corujo, Alexis Lemes, José Vicente Pérez, Benito Cabrera, Domingo “El Colora

say, Los Gofiones, Los Sabandeños, among others.Eleven days of music that will arrive punctually at 8:30 pm so as not to leave anyone indifferent.