Arrecife en Vivo was born in 2013 to take music out of venues, bring it to the street and tour the city with it. Thirteen years later, this Friday's image allows us to tell something more: people recognize the festival as their own, they walk through it, they dance to it and they transform it.
“Brilliant!”. A British woman, wearing a newly purchased The Anger Price t-shirt, summarized what she had just found in La Plazuela. A few meters away, neighbors, visitors, families, teenagers and festival regulars filled the first of the stages on a route that this Friday once again turned the streets of Arrecife into a huge shared space.
The forcefulness of the young band from Navarre opened the afternoon before a large audience that did not want to miss a hard rock and rap proposal that is unusual in Lanzarote's cultural programming.
The percussion and street theater group Psycho Clown turned the historic center of the city into a major celebration. Gunpowder reached Calle Real, the parade visited several shops and ended up dancing with employees and customers. This is one of the keys to Arrecife en Vivo: to merge with the life of the city.
Thousands of people walked together through the center and the port area of the capital of Lanzarote, following a route that once again demonstrated one of the festival's hallmarks: here the public does not contemplate what happens from the outside but is part of what happens. The British band MFC Chicken saw the parade arrive from the Charco de San Ginés stage and took out their mobile phones to record this fascinating cultural endemism. Their rock and roll and R&B show conquered an absolutely diverse audience in age, profile, and origin.
The parade went along the bank of the Charco de San Ginés and reached the Marina Lanzarote sports port, where a large group of faithful followers were already waiting to see the historic guitarist and composer from Barricada, Alfredo Piedrafita. After a colossal start, the hits of the band from Navarre followed one after another to culminate with Blanco y Negro in an apocalyptic finale.
Last objective of the night: celebrate Chambao's 25 years. From Navarrese rock to mestizo music. The change of register was not only possible: it was overwhelmingly beautiful. The largest stage at Arrecife en Vivo, located at the Cruise Pier to minimize disturbances to residents, was filled to receive the energy of La Mari, who was accompanied by exceptional musicians. The guitarist from Malaga, Tony Cantero, a resident of Lanzarote and a member of Toñín Corujo's quartet, came on stage to accompany her in this celebration. La Mari came down from the stage to sing among the people, receiving the affection of the Canary Islands public.
The night closed with one of the Canary Islands' most promising producers and composers: Laiv, a master in the art of independent electronics, who on Friday, September 25th, made the Arrecife en Vivo audience soar, closing a day that will be difficult to forget.
Arrecife en Vivo is a festival produced by Hsmith Solutions and has the official sponsorship of the Tourism Department of the Arrecife City Council. It is sponsored by the Culture, Equality, Welfare, and Inclusion departments of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, the Lanzarote External Promotion Society, the Centers of Art, Culture, and Tourism of Lanzarote, Promotur Turismo de Canarias, and Proexca. Collaborating with this cultural production are: Cajasiete, Grupo Chacón, Monster Energy, Radio 3, and Cadena Ser Lanzarote.
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