The island of La Graciosa becomes the capital of the timple this weekend with the celebration of the eleventh edition of the Timple Encounter, which will take place on May 10 and 11 in the Plaza de Caleta de Sebo.
The young timple player from Majorera, 23 years old, Julia Rodríguez and the Tenerife musician Félix Morales make up the poster for the new edition of this event, which was first promoted in 2013 and has served to highlight the possibilities of the small stringed instrument most representative of the Canary Islands. From Benito Cabrera to David Rodríguez “El Majorero”, Josele del Pino, Liana Llauger, Alberto Delgado, Alexis Lemes, Laura Martel, José Vicente Pérez, Fran Baraja, Achimencey Toledo or Domingo Rodríguez ‘el Colorao’ have passed through this instrument.
The program of the XI edition of the Timples Encounter of La Graciosa, which Estudios Multitrack produces with the sponsorship of the Teguise City Council, the Lanzarote Cabildo, the Canary Islands Institute for Cultural Development of the Government of the Canary Islands and Binter, to which the collaboration of Cicar is added, includes the exhibition Instruments of the Canary Islands, which will be exhibited in the Socio-Cultural Center. In addition, the didactic concert that is held on May 10 (11:00 a.m.) The Sound of the Islands, which will bring the little ones closer to the origins and singularities of the instruments of the popular musical tradition of the Canary Islands.
Program
On May 10, Julia Rodríguez will perform, while the following day the stage set up in the Plaza de Caleta de Sebo will host the Félix Morales concert. Both recitals are held at 8:30 p.m.
The timple player from Majorera will be accompanied in her concert by Daniel Morales on guitar, Jonay Aguilar on percussion and Fran Contreras on electric bass. Her repertoire in this concert will focus on her own songs included in her next album pending publication and other popular songs from traditional folklore.
For his part, Félix Morales, will perform a dozen songs that include medieval, Ottoman and other latitudes of the world in a kind of rich itinerary that he has artistically called ‘Ductia’. Morales is accompanied by a band made up of three solvent musicians: the artistic director of Pieles and percussionist Jonatan Rodríguez, who will be employed with a varied range of tambourines; the master of winds Juani Cantero who will play from the oblique flute to the Armenian duduk, passing through the Indian bansuri flute and others of a pastoral nature from the Canary Islands, and the guitarist and timple player David Duque, to which Morales himself is added, who will dedicate himself to the Arabic lute or the Andean charango, among other instruments that he will envelop with his voice. Up to five different languages can be heard in his original proposal called Piélago.