The popular music group Acatife traveled to Vecindario, in the Gran Canaria municipality of Santa Lucía de Tirajana, to participate in the Bejeque Festival.
The event, held last Friday night in Los Algodoneros Square, began with the performance of Acatife where its 30 members, musically directed by the young professor Alejandro Machín and vocally directed by professor José Antonio Elías, performed some of the most representative songs collected in their eight record works. The public, which filled the entire capacity of the square, applauded, supporting the representatives of the island of Lanzarote.
Acatife had the special collaboration of the singer Sira Rodríguez, to perform the song Mi pueblo y César, dedicated to the universal artist from Lanzarote, César Manrique.
From the first moment, Acatife connected with the public with a musical selection with content that exalted the beauty and events that occurred in Lanzarote and the Canary Islands, where the soloists, supported by the choirs, conquered the public who, very animated and standing, asked them to continue, ending with the song Por Bandera.
Next, the hosts and organizers of the festival, the popular music group Bejeque, formed by members with very powerful and tuned voices who, supported by the musical chords, made a musical journey performing some of their best-known compositions, took the stage. For this festival, the direction of Bejeque had the dance body of Santa Lucía de Tirajana, women and men dressed in peasant clothes staged the most traditional dances of Canarian folklore.
Bejeque, formed in 1995 in Sardina del Sur, municipality of Santa Lucía de Tirajana, took this name from an endemic plant of the island of La Gomera. Throughout these 30 years, the group has taken its music to different corners of the Canary Islands, where they have always received the applause of the public who gather at each meeting. In this edition, Bejeque distinguished Carmelo Suárez Hernández, a member of the group, with the 'Fajín de Honor' for his dedication and commitment to the group.
The festival said goodbye with a party atmosphere, counting on the complicity of the public who left their chairs to occupy the square and dance.