Photos: Sergio Betancort
Domingo Rodríguez "El Colorao", on the timple; Juan Carlos Pérez, on the guitar; and Juanma Padrón, as voice, offered on Friday night at the Casa-Museo del Timple in Teguise a concert as a preview to the Canary Islands Day. "El Colorao" is, without a doubt, the timple player who most champions the song with Canarian roots, although he also usually includes some compositions from Latin American countries, due to the existing links with the archipelago.
Domingo Rodríguez "El Colorao", as soon as he greeted the numerous public that packed the room, with a broken voice, dedicated the concert to Florián Corujo, since everyone who knows him knows very well the ties of friendship that unite him to the family of the recently deceased timple player. At the moment, prolonged applause from the public was heard.
El Colorao and Juan Carlos Pérez, inseparable for many years, from the first minute they go on stage they connect with the public that attends each of their concerts; and it is that their spontaneity, simplicity and professionalism make the attendees increasingly their own. In this concert, already at the gates of Canary Islands Day, "El Colorao" performed a varied repertoire of traditional songs such as folias, isas, mazurca, aíres de Valsequillo, to which the young tenor Juanma Padrón put his voice. He, at the moment when the chords of La Malagueña sounded, improvised some stanzas dedicated to Florián Corujo and that said like this: Another volcano went out in the land of rabbits, all of the Canary Islands cry because he went up to heaven to sing, Florián Corujo Tejera.
Before the last verse had even finished, the loudest and longest applause of the night sounded. The Councilor for Culture, Heritage and Festivals, Olivia Duque, present at the concert, presented Domingo with the poster announcing the concert while thanking the public for attending it. When the moment of farewell arrived, with airs of Folias, the enthusiastic public asked them to continue and they very complacently finished at the rhythm of Isa.
