With the staging called Brisa Salobre, the Folk Group Choirs and Dances of Arrecife presented last Thursday night, next to the Music Kiosk in Arrecife, the new traditional clothing of Lanzarote from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
With a decoration where utensils and products related to the countryside and the sea were reflected and a very careful staging, the men and women were making an act of presence in the enclosure enabled to develop a very special presentation that they had worked with great care, thus achieving the set objective.
The Folk Group Choirs and Dances of Arrecife, with 67 years of history since its creation, have maintained the inherited legacy respecting to the maximum the traditional songs and dances of Lanzarote.
This new project to rescue the traditional clothing of Lanzarote began to take shape back in 2021 with the advice of the professor, researcher and expert in clothing from Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Ricardo Reguera Ramírez, a man who also formed part as a member of the Choirs and Dances of Arrecife family.
To complete this ambitious project, they had two expert artisan seamstresses, Rosa María Ruiz Ortega and Violeta Santos Morales. They were in charge of taking care of the smallest detail, supervising the patterns and stitches to the combination of colors to achieve, with dignity and respecting the cultural legacy, that the men and women of Lanzarote wore in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
With the new clothing presented by Coros y Danzas Arrecife, the attending public relived those images of the men and women inhabitants of the inland villages with peasant clothing and also those of the men and women inhabitants of the fishing villages such as El Golfo, Playa Blanca, La Tiñosa, La Santa, Arrieta, Punta Mujeres, Órzola. The Port of Arrecife and the island of La Graciosa. Lanzarote was very well represented with this new clothing, a faithful reflection of the men and women of the countryside and the sea.
On such a special night, the musical group offered the most traditional songs and dances of Lanzarote, beginning with a sorondongo, followed by seguidillas, folías, isa and malagueñas, with an audience standing and applauding them and asking them to continue ending with some Aires Marineros de Arrecife.
The Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Festivities, Echedey Eugenio, the Councilor for Culture, Abigail González, and Cathaysa Suárez from Citizen Participation. Also Rosmen Quevedo, Councilor for the Elderly and the Councilor, Ascensión Toledo. All were present supporting the family of Coros y Danzas de Arrecife on a day that will go down in history.
