Canarian music, 'enyesque' of tollos, cheese, local potatoes and wines from our island to end the Folklore and Traditional Music Workshops that have been carried out in the neighborhoods of Maneje, Valterra, Titerroy, El Lomo and in the Sociedad Democracia of Arrecife.
The stage of the Plaza Gobernador José García Hernández de Valterra featured numerous performances by the different folk groups of the capital. The members of the different traditional music workshops who attended the event, positively valued this meeting, "which should be repeated every year", according to José Cruz, president of the Los Marinos de Valterra Neighborhood Association and monitor of the folklore workshop of the Socio-Cultural Center (CSC) of Valterra, the El Morro de la Elvira Senior Citizens Association, and AFOL (Association of Relatives
Oncologists of Lanzarote).
The gala included the participation of the students of the workshops who performed pieces of pluck and plectrum and traditional singing, in addition to offering a folk show with groups from the municipality.
Juan Andrés Clavijo, president of the Parranda Los labradores de Los Valles, took a very good impression of the event, as did Juan Santana, president of the Morro Elvira Senior Citizens Association, who stated "that the City Council should not stop financing these workshops, "since the influx of neighbors to the
them is very important".
The Councilor for Culture, Neighborhoods and Citizen Participation of the Arrecife City Council, Lorenzo Lemaur, was delighted with the evolution of these workshops and pledged to continue with the work of supporting the promotion of folklore and traditional music in the capital. Some workshops that have had the participation of 200 students.
The workshops have been organized by the different Neighborhood Associations and have been subsidized by the Departments of Culture, Neighborhoods and Citizen Participation of the Arrecife City Council. In this sense, the monitor of the folklore workshops of CSC Titerroy and CSC Maneje is Roberto Gil Parrilla, while José Cruz is responsible for the folklore workshop of CSC Valterra, the Morro
Elvira and AFOL Senior Citizens Association.
