The Popular Party in the Arrecife City Council has presented a motion, which will be debated in the next plenary session, urging the council to promote the implementation of the Arrecife Music Band.
Lorenzo Lemaur, a popular councilor, considers it regrettable that a city like Arrecife does not have a music band today and asks the government group to carry out the appropriate actions to launch it as soon as possible, also taking into account that in the general budgets of the corporation, for the current year, there is an economic item of 8,000 euros in the expenditure chapter for the operation of the music band.
It should be noted that the majority of municipalities throughout Spain, as well as the Canary Islands, have a music band, either municipal or autonomous. In the case of Lanzarote, the municipalities of Yaiza, Tías, Tinajo and San Bartolomé also have a band, in addition to the Teguise Municipal School of Music.
For Lemaur, it is "unquestionable that the local music band is an element of identity for the city and a good sign of commitment to culture." In addition, the Arrecife Music Band "could develop an important activity of disseminating music, in all its aspects, and become a fundamental element of attraction and entertainment."
The Popular Party councilor also criticizes that the Arrecife City Council has had to resort to forming a circumstantial band of musicians and even to hiring the band from other municipalities in Lanzarote to liven up the neighborhood festivals, or to accompany the processions of San Ginés and the Virgen del Carmen in the Valterra neighborhood.
Lorenzo Lemaur also recalls that, recently and on the occasion of the concert by the artist Manolo Escobar, within the San Ginés Festival program, the Yaiza music band had to be used.
From the Popular Party they affirm that with the implementation of the Arrecife Music Band, numerous young musicians who are currently training at the Conservatory and the School of Music would also be allowed to have an important professional outlet, in addition to the fact that this band would represent an incentive and more motivation for them to continue with the practice and dedication to music.