Photos: Sergio Betancort
The Timple House-Museum in Teguise is celebrating its VIII Anniversary and to celebrate it, it had the special performance of the Popular Music Group Jóvenes Cantadores from the island of Tenerife last Friday night. The concert was held in the Santo Domingo Convent to accommodate the largest number of supporters.
At 8:30 p.m., the first musical notes of the song "Somos El Pueblo" began to sound, a composition that speaks of the Canary Islands that has become a hymn. Under the musical direction of Darío Cabrera and the introductions in each of the compositions by Elvis Sanfiel, the group conquered the public who "animatedly" participated in each of the choruses and even hummed the songs, infected with the complicity and animation transmitted by the members.
Jóvenes Cantadores based their performance on their latest album entitled "10 Años. A Decade of Glory". A very varied album that includes 13 songs of different genres, including some of Canarian roots with fusions, giving it a fresh and renewed touch. Sanfiel recalled that his first performance in Lanzarote was in Teguise, where they were received and supported with the same enthusiasm and affection as on this visit. Throughout this decade since its creation, Jóvenes Cantadores has taken its music throughout the Canary Islands with the same enthusiasm and dedication as the first day. As a result of the good reception from the public, they have captured part of the repertoire that has accompanied them during their performances in four albums with a very careful selection. Before the concert ended, the mayor of the Teguise City Council, Oswaldo Betancort, and the Councilor for Culture, Olivia Duque, presented the advertising poster of the concert as a souvenir. Finally, and at the insistence of the public, they continued singing songs and ended with the theme of the Colombian singer Carlos Vives, La Gota Fría.
Beginnings of the Timple House-Museum.
The implementation of the cultural project to be carried out in the facilities of the Spínola Palace in Teguise and turn it into the Timple House-Museum did not initially have the approval of all the institutions, since there were many discrepancies that arose and that almost led to it being installed in another of the islands where some rulers and cultural groups valued and saw this project as very positive. For this, the cultural and musical experience of Benito Cabrera was counted on, who had planned that the House-Museum would not only be used for the exhibition of instruments from different parts of the world where the timple would also be present, but would be a living museum. A place where concerts would be held in a smaller format, providing the opportunity for duos, trios or groups who would be willing to participate, thus forming part of the project. Similarly, there would also be space for speakers, writers, and all those groups that presented alternative projects and that adapted to the space offered by the facilities of the House-Museum. Eight years after its inauguration, the Timple House-Museum has become a benchmark of Culture in Teguise, Lanzarote and the Canary Islands.