Torrecremada Music Festival
It starts today with Carles Dénia and Spanish Brass Quintet
SUMMER nights serenaded by great music in open-air gardens sound like the perfect after-work wind-down to us, and if you're in Dénia this month, you'll find it right on your doorstep.
The Torrecremada Music Festival hits the stage today, Friday, July 10, costs just €5 per head per concert – all of which is for charity – and numbers are limited to 212 for each show (masks compulsory, of course).
Unfortunately, this year, there will be no food or drink stands, so you might want to eat out first or bring a snack with you, and access to the sole port-a-loo will be 'managed' by council staff; part and parcel of the 'New Normality' in times of pandemic, and a small price to pay for our freedom from lockdown and avoiding catching the virus.
For this reason, tickets are only available online, via www.instanticket.es, so as to limit the number of people touching them.
The full amount paid for each will go to Dénia's 'Mesa Solidària' ('Charity Table'), made up of the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Cáritas, and the association Extiende Tu Mano ('Reach out your hand').
Access to the venue – the Torrecremada Park, the Monday market site - is permitted from 21.00 via the main market gate.
Concerts are held every Friday in July from 22.30 – here's the opening act, and stay tuned to Costa News for the rest of the programme next week!
Carles Dénia & Spanish Brass Quintet
Few musical repertoires span as many centuries at once as this talented combination: From bang up-to-date rock and pop through to Mediaeval melodies, there's probably little in existence that won't be covered in this musthear concert, titled Mira Si Hem Corregut Terres ('Look How Many Places We've Been', roughly translated).
Modern beats come from the tracks of Raimon, Joan Manel Serrat and La Gossa Sorda, 21st-century nationallyfamous bands and artists who frequently pop up at the fiestas and at rock festivals around the country. You may heard their trademark records without realising, given that they're popular with the youth and with adults of all ages.
Heading back in time by over half a millennium, a lively and rhythmic fusion of the typical songs and notes heard during the Middle Ages will somehow slot in around and between the above-mentioned fiesta rockers, and you may not even notice you're time-travelling: Mediaeval music, and indeed society, in Spain was nothing like what you've heard coming out of northern Europe; Spain's largest ethnic community for over 700 years was Arab, and exotic tunes and beats that would still make the charts today fused with the 'typicallySpanish' which, depending upon where you are, ranges from Celtic to gypsy guitar.
Quite an eclectic blend, but it all fits together nicely.