The Teguise City Council hosted a new edition of the world music festival Bio Ritmos 2024. The event was held last Friday, June 14, at the Amphitheater on Las Cucharas Beach in Costa Teguise. This new edition featured the participation of two Canarian proposals and, as a novelty, one from the peninsular area.
Within the annual program of the Timple House Museum, the event began with a parade by the Comparsa Los Cumbacheros, which encouraged all visitors to come to the amphitheater to start the concert. In addition, this group from the municipality, founded in 2012, served as a link between the other groups during the stage changes.
The group Non Trubada from the island of Gran Canaria was in charge of opening the concert under the production of the Center for Popular Canarian Culture. With the most rooted sounds of the islands, such as the timple, the chácaras or the drum, it captivated the public with the avant-garde of the New Canarian Song.
His show gave way to the soloist Almudena Hernández, one of the leading voices in Lanzarote, accompanied by the folk guitarist Adrián Niz and the timple player José Vicente Pérez, who put the finishing touch with the interpretation of several musical themes of the popular Canarian culture.
Finally, the Germinal show by the group El Naán arrived from Palencia, which hypnotized the audience with its concert-ritual of atavistic sounds, poetry and ethnic music. This group, formed by the musicians Adal Pumarabín, Carlos Herrero, Héctor Castrillejo, María Alba, Javier Mediavilla, César Díez and César Tejero, fulfilled its purpose of bringing the ancestral and traditional sounds of ethnic music closer to everyone present.
The mayor Olivia Duque thanked "the work and effort" to carry out this event that has already been consolidated as a mandatory event within the calendar of the municipality of Teguise. For his part, the Councilor for Culture and Festivities, Javier Díaz, points out that "with these festivals we promote the musical culture that exists in the Canary Islands with a unique initiative on the island and that, after five years of celebration, is postulated as a consolidated offer where Canarian folk is the main protagonist."
