An emotional and massive proclamation starring Toño de la Hoz marked the start this Friday of the Valterra Festivities in honor of the Virgen del Carmen.
The event featured speeches by the mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, and the deputy mayor of the city, Echedey Eugenio. Both recognized the figure of the herald and congratulated the Festivities Commission represented on stage by the president of the Valterra Neighborhood Association, Antonio Leal, who led the event, and the treasurer of the Valterra Sports Union, Patricia Sabaris, who also spoke.
Appreciated and loved in the neighborhood where he was born - more specifically in Tahíche chico, as he specified - throughout Arrecife and the entire island, Toño reviewed from memory his experiences linked largely to soccer, indoor soccer, and Carnival, evoking in an entertaining and emotional way numerous situations and people, in a proclamation interrupted on several occasions by the applause of the numerous public, among whom were many friends and family of the herald.
Pepe Benavente this Saturday
A proclamation preceded by the announcing parade through the streets of the neighborhood starring giants and big heads and enlivened by the batucada Ritmos del Sur, held in the Plaza de Valterra that will be the epicenter of the Festivities until its conclusion on Sunday, July 20 with the maritime procession of the Virgen del Carmen, and which was followed by a lively performance by the Gran Canaria band Los Lola.
The performance of the Tenerife singer Pepe Benavente (Saturday 12 at 9:00 p.m.), the Miss and Mister galas (Tuesday 15 at 8:30 p.m.), the land procession (Wednesday 7:30 p.m.), the election of Lady Valterra (Thursday 17, 8:00 p.m.), the folklore of the Los Gorfines band (Thursday 17 at 9:30 p.m.), the Drag Queen Gala (Saturday 19 at 9:00 p.m.), the Parranda Night (Saturday 19 at 11:00 p.m.) will be other highlighted events.
There will also be children's and adult playbacks, sports tournaments, festivals, sardine barbecue, chickpea stew and popular paella, children's workshops, lottery, gymkhana, outdoor cinema and more musical performances that will make the Valterra Festivities shine, in whose organization the Department of Festivities collaborates, led by the deputy mayor Echedey Eugenio.
