One more year, the great family of the Rubicón de Yaiza Folk Group put on the stage of the Plaza de Los Remedios a complete manifestation of traditional Canarian songs and dances, sharing them with their guests from the Folk Group, Noroeste Guiense. The event began at 9:00 p.m., with a staging by the organizers of the festival, who reproduced what was done in the past in a roadside inn. Places where friends, without having to be tied to a script, with guitar and timple in hand to which some torn voice was also joined, formed a lively party to which some dancing couples joined, prolonging the evening until the body could take it.
After this introduction, the two groups alternated their songs and dances. Noroeste Guiense is from the municipality of Santa María de Guía in Gran Canaria. A group founded 27 years ago. With its 48 members dressed in the traditional costume of the area, 18th and 19th centuries, they offered the most representative of the island of Gran Canaria, such as some Seguidillas Robadas, Mazurca de Galdar, Polca del Carrizal and El Pericón, among others. They received the affection of the public with their prolonged applause. Noroeste Guiense are holders of the silver medal of the city of Santa María Guía awarded by the city council of the municipality. They have two record works with songs and music of their own creation. In the month of May and coinciding with the day of the Canary Islands, they organize their own festival where they invite other groups from different islands. The responsibility for the direction of the touch and song is in charge of Israel Arbelo while that of the dance is carried out by José Antonio Pérez.
The organizers Rubicón de Yaiza, like their guests, offered the most representative of the songs and dances of Lanzarote. The vivacity and dynamics carried out in each of the choreographies of the dances exhibited during their performance as well as the powerful voices of the soloists were strikingly striking. Its 55 members, directed in the musical part by Professor Roberto Gil and the dance section by Magdalena Cáceres. Cáceres is dedicated to transmitting to her students how to get the different choreographies to be displayed with total naturalness, ensuring that the tradition continues to be maintained. Rubicón gave everything in this edition, interpreting with total mastery, Seguidillas, Folías, Isas, Zaranda and Malagueña among others, which the attending public rewarded them with their applause in each of their interpretations. The festival came to an end with an Isa Parrandera where the two groups participated and where their dancers invited the public to come on stage and share this cheerful piece with the public who gladly accepted the invitation, thus putting an end to an edition where it was clear that the traditions are well rooted.
