The Farmer's House Museum, the artistic work with which César Manrique paid tribute to the men and women of the Lanzarote countryside, is preparing to live a "unprecedented and exclusive experience that promises strong emotions" around one of the most significant musical instruments of the archipelago.
Alexis Lemes, accompanied by Javier Infante, José Vicente Pérez and Adrián Niz and Toñín Corujo Quartet will take to three stages simultaneously to star in Timple Encounter at the Monument, a sound journey guided by these three greats of the small, great stringed instrument, who will offer a varied repertoire in styles and registers ranging from the traditional folklore of the islands to jazz or funky.
The event will begin at 12:00 and end at 14:00 on Saturday, July 6. “We welcome three of the best performers of the instrument of the archipelago par excellence in the best of scenarios to value all that the musical tradition of the islands means,” said the counselor of the Tourist Centers, Ángel Vázquez, who encourages the population of the island not to miss the event.
Timple Encounter is the first of the series Encounters at the Monument with which the Tourist Centers want to contribute to spreading Canarian folklore from that emblematic space. The Centers have announced that admission is free until the allowed capacity is reached.
About the protagonists
Lemes, Pérez and Corujo are, without any doubt, the great references of the timple in Lanzarote. Alexis Lemes has managed to unify the sound of the timple with jazz melodies and has reinterpreted island chords with a fusion rich in nuances that become magical melodies. At the Farmer's House Museum he will perform with the guitarist from Gran Canaria Javier Infante, with whom he has been working since 2015 from an original repertoire of both with a very contemporary and creative root music.
José Vicente Pérez's first contact with the timple took place in the folklore workshop that is taught at the Santa María de los Volcanes school. Since then, awards and recognitions from critics and the public mark the career of a performer who has taken his music to the stages of the archipelago and the Iberian Peninsula, and beyond, to Germany, France and Ireland. In this Timple Encounter he will be accompanied by Adrián Niz, one of the most solid values of the guitar on the island.
Member of one of the families with the greatest musical roots in the islands, Toñin Corujo is the visible head of a quartet that has reinterpreted music from the timple. Toñín Corujo Quartet is the result of the work, experience and enthusiasm of four eclectic musicians from styles as varied as popular music, Jazz and heavy metal, who come together to travel through little traveled sound paths that awaken in the public emotions as intense as unexpected.
