After the break caused by covid, the San Ginés festivities have once again recovered the traditional folk festival "Ciudad de Arrecife". On Tuesday night, the theater hall of the Atlántida multiplexes was filled with dances, surrounded by the traditional and seafaring music of three representative groups from the city of Arrecife.
With a very small capacity due to the health protocols in force, at 8:30 p.m. the first chords began to sound, performed by the Los Campesinos Folk Group with the popular habanera "Fulgida Luna". Later they changed the rhythm, giving way to the most traditional songs and dances such as Isa del Cabrera, Folías, Sorondongo, Malagueña and ending with the Saranda del Viento. The Campesina family gave their best, eliciting applause from the audience during their performance.
The second place in the festival was reserved for another emblematic group. A unique seafaring reference in Lanzarote and the Canary Islands, such as the Parranda Marinera Los Buches. With their songs with a taste of the sea, they relived on stage the cheerful parades impregnated with saltpeter with their buches in the air, the colored ribbons and the water whistle accompanying songs as cheerful as Chiquilla Mía, La Batea del Gofio and Querida Lola among others. The very animated audience joined their voices humming the choruses.
The third place of the night was reserved for the family of the Coros y Danzas Arrecife Folk Group, who took to the stage doubly motivated to perform again and, most importantly, to have the presence of their president, Santiago Torres, after having overcome, in quotation marks, an enemy as difficult to defeat as covid. Coros y Danzas chose a varied repertoire where they intertwined traditional songs and dances with popular and seafaring habaneras. In the traditional part there was no lack of Folías, Seguidillas, Sorondongo Marinero and Isa, in the more seafaring part there were habaneras as popular as Salió de Jamaica, La Bella Lola closing the festival with the Isa Marinera "Porteña de Arrecife". With well-known and lively choruses they put the finishing touch to a night where the three participating groups gave everything and were very excited to continue taking our songs and dances to the stages of Lanzarote and the Canary Islands in general.
The Councilor for Festivities of the Arrecife City Council, José Alfredo Mendoza, present at the event, valued very positively each of the interventions of the groups, thanking them for their willingness to participate in the festival and congratulating them for the magnificent performance of which he said he felt very proud.