Photos: Sergio Betancort
The Rubicón Folk Group of Yaiza dedicated its festival to the distinguished son of the municipality and salt master, Victor Fernández Gopar "El Salinero". The event began at 9:00 p.m. on Friday. The stage in the Plaza de Los Remedios was largely occupied by the Janubio Salt Flats, where some of the group's members simulated the tasks of the hard work carried out in the salt flats, such as collecting salt from the cuts and carrying it on their shoulders in pírgano baskets. A very well-achieved staging. Little by little, the sound of the timple began to be heard, accompanied by the voice of the man who has best made known the legacy of the work written in couplets by Victor Fernández Gopar, Antonio Corujo. Corujo recites and sings each of the couplets, easily making those present aware of the content and meaning of each one through his interventions.
On a night dedicated to El Salinero, the seguidillas could not be missing, sung and danced by the members of the Rubicón Folk Group, which in this edition shared the stage with the Folk Group "Pella Gofio. Group from Tamaraceite in Gran Canaria, created in 2004, which currently has 36 members. Since its creation, its members have been committed to transmitting and preserving the traditional values of Canarian music and dances, with an album entitled "Amasando". For them, it was the first time they participated in the Rubicón festival and they were very excited to share a day marked by traditions where the two groups offered the traditional songs and dances of each island, with the seguidillas, folias, islas, malagueñas and polkas being very present.
The Rubicón Folk Group has about 50 members, mostly very young people committed to traditions. They are directed in the musical part by Professor Roberto Gil and in the dance part by a woman dedicated to transmitting to each of them the values of the inherited legacy as only she knows how to do, Magdalena Cáceres. Rublicón has taken the name of the municipality of Yaiza and Lanzarote throughout the islands of the Canary Archipelago, participating in festivals and pilgrimages. The audience that completely filled the Plaza de Los Remedios enjoyed a night where each of the participating groups gave their all, receiving as a reward the applause in each of their interventions.
