After the break due to covid, the Teguise city council has celebrated the VIII Timples Encounter on Isla de La Graciosa.
To comply with all the protocols required by Public Health, this year the location was changed from Caleta de Sebo avenue to the stage of the Nuestra Señora del Carmen church. With a much smaller capacity and controlled by the representative and councilor of the city council, Alicia Páez, and Emerlan staff.
The meeting began last Friday with the performance of the young timplista, David Rodríguez "El majorero, native of Morro Jable on the island of Fuerteventura and who was very well accompanied by the majoreros, José Bolaños on guitar and Fernando Acosta as soloist. For his first concert on the island, David, as a good student of the great master Domingo Rodríguez "El Colorao", carried out a select and successful musical selection with the most traditional of music with Canarian roots such as folias, malagueñas, polkas without forgetting the isa parrandera. He also made a nod to Latin America, interpreting compositions by great authors, songs that are part of the legacy of universal music such as Alma Llanera, Alfonsina y el Mar or El Pájaro Campaña, among others.
The audience, who after so many months without listening to live music, at the moment when David announced the end of the concert, asked him to continue, a request that he kindly complied with, on this occasion with only two encores to comply with the rules established by the organization from the Teguise city council and the Multitrack production company with its director Paco Chinea.