The Lanzarote festival Arrecife en Vivo, sponsored for eleven years by the Arrecife City Council, has recently been chosen as a finalist in the Best Cultural Programming category. The objective is to reward the work that programmers do to offer activities that complement the experience of live concerts.
In addition to being a showcase to see the most powerful bands on the Canary scene in action, Arrecife en Vivo has produced 51 documentary shorts starring artists from Lanzarote: emerging and historical bands, soloists, groups of different styles and trajectories.
The series, called AEV Channel, has managed to compile an important part of the inspiring and diverse contemporary musical heritage of the island. With free access, all the chapters are available on the festival's YouTube channel. Among other artists, we can enjoy the stories of Marca Acme, Eva Ruiz, Beni Ferrer, Metalmorfosis, Gnoma and 1515.
In addition to these two seasons of musical documentaries, Arrecife en Vivo launched AEV Training in 2023, a training program of masterclasses specialized in music and dance that took place at the Víctor Fernández Gopar Theater with all places filled. A good part of the teaching staff of these workshops was made up of renowned professionals from Lanzarote such as Diego Barber, Acerina H. Toledo, Sifer, DJ CHK and Lucas de Mulder.
Both AEV Channel and AEV Training, two productions financed by the Culture area of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, constitute an extraordinary opportunity to discover a part of the talent that exists on our island and learn from their experience on stage.
The mayor of the city, Yonathan de León, has announced the new dates for the edition in 2024. Arrecife en Vivo will be held on September 20 and 27, October 4 and 11, 2024, and they have already confirmed that Lia Kali, Cala Vento and Nat Simons will be on the popular concert routes of the capital's marina.
Councilor Eli Merino, as head of the Commerce, Tourism and Sports Areas, values that Arrecife en Vivo "is integrated, due to its format, into the dynamizing actions that Turismo Arrecife is relaunching and that supports the capital of Lanzarote as an ideal destination for enjoying tourism, leisure and fun." The mayor of the city has congratulated, together with the Councilor for Tourism, Eli Merino, the promoters of this festival who have the name of Arrecife in their DNA, and is pleased that it is well positioned among the best Spanish festivals with the best cultural programming.
Since its creation in 2013, the Arrecife festival has been awarded for its original format on four occasions: in 2016 it was the Best Small Format Festival at the Iberian Festival Awards, in 2019 it was chosen as the Best Medium Format Festival in Spain at the same awards, in 2020 it received the Distinguidos del Turismo award granted by the Cabildo de Lanzarote and last year it won the award for Best Musical Programming at the Canary Music Awards.
