Total connection this Friday of the southern public with the artistic groups invited to the Meeting of Murgas and Chirigotas organized by the Yaiza City Council on the occasion of the celebration of the Carnival of the tourist town of Playa Blanca. A night in which the Lanzarote murgas 'Las Vacilonas' and 'Los Simplones' performed, the murga from the sister island of Fuerteventura, 'Los Gambusinos', which has just won in the Carnival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and the chirigotas 'Los Lilones' and 'I can't stand it anymore, let's be impatient', second place in the 2020 Cádiz Carnival, a luxury poster that rounded off a show with an outstanding grade.
The mocking lyrics, without censorship, ironizing about reality, provoked laughter among the audience who at some moments of the night spontaneously rose from their chairs to thank the artists for all the joy offered. Playa Blanca enjoyed a popular manifestation of free expression of critical thought, of criticism of the management of the pandemic, such as Los Simplones and their 'A song in phases', a critical stitch also to the salary increase of the island directors of the Cabildo of Lanzarote or a "vaccine" against those who run the Arrecife Carnival.
It is not only lyrics, it is the percussion music in the murgas and also the strings in the chirigota, and the non-verbal expression of the artists that brings joy to the show. The invited guys from Cádiz performed pasodoble, cuplé and potpourri, in the latter ingeniously changing the lyrics of very catchy popular songs.
The Chirigota 'I can't stand it anymore, let's be impatient' remembered Honorio García, former mayor of Yaiza, asking teasingly what he would think of the power of the current president Óscar Noda. Murgas and chirIgotas entertained the public by uniting cultures with the common point of laughing at life, and in the case of the chirigotas, bringing the land closer to the Andalusian population residing in the municipality of Yaiza. The Councilor for Festivities, Javier Camacho, encourages the people of Yaiza and Lanzarote to continue enjoying the carnival program in Playa Blanca.
