Tenerife Culture Tenerife Canaries Spain

Archive for the 'Culture' Category

Tenerife to stage film music festival

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

The island of Tenerife is hosting its first International Festival of Film Music in the capital of Santa Cruz de Tenerife from July 9-15. The week-long event will be attended by a number of Hollywood and Spanish composers and will include two concerts by the recently-formed Tenerife Film Orchestra and Choir. The first will be in the island’s oldest theatre, the Teatro Guimerá on Saturday July 14 and will features works by Mychael Danna, Sean Callery and Angel Illarramendi. The festival will draw to a close the next day, Sunday, with a concert in the Auditorio de Tenerife, this time featuring scores by Diego Navarro and Don Davis. The programme for the first five days of the festival includes a series of conferences and discussions featuring the guest composers. More information on the event can be found on its website www.fimucite.com

Posted by Ken

Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Auditorio, Culture, Festivals, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Hot tips for Tenerife’s top tapas

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

A tapas contest is one of the more unusual features of colourful celebrations to mark the anniversary of the founding of the Tenerife capital of Santa Cruz. A full range of events is planned for the week-long festival, starting on Sunday April 29 and continuing through to Sunday May 6. They take place across the city, but mainly in Plaza del Príncipe, Parque García Sanabria and Calle La Noria. The colourful series of events include an International Marionette Festival, several other puppet shows, an exhibition of flowers, a concert of Canarian music, and a flower crosses workshop and competition. The whole city will be decked out with traditional floral crosses and the highlight of the programme will be on the evening of May 2, a Great Canarian Fiesta with traditional Canarian dress a prominent feature. In 1999, the party, known as the Dance of Magicians, went ...

Posted by Ken

Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Culture, Eating, Festivals, Flowers & Plants, History, Locations, May celebrations, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tourism

Cocker brings heart and soul to Auditorio

Friday, April 20th, 2007

British blues legend Joe Cocker will appear in concert in Tenerife on July 10 during his summer European tour. The Sheffield-born star, who will be 63 by the time of the concert, starts a mammoth Europe-wide tour in June that takes in Spain, Greece, Georgia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, France, Ireland, England, Holland, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Norway and Denmark – a punishing schedule of 34 venues in all in little over two months. He has two dates in the Canary Islands, at the Auditorio in Santa Cruz on July 10 and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, the following day. Cocker’s musical career, which spans over 40 years, kicked off when he had his first UK number one in November 1968, a cover version of the Beatles song With a Little Help from My Friends. He had a second UK hit with Delta Lady but the real ...

Posted by Ken

Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Auditorio, Music, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Storm in a coffee cup

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Disenchantment with politics and politicians has led many to the view that our leaders are completely out of touch with the problems of everyday living. The Prime Minister of Spain, José Luis Zapatero, had to deal with just such an allegation in the build up to the country’s forthcoming elections when he took part in a live question and answer session on television. Did he know the price of a cup of coffee, he was asked by a member of the audience. He thought it was about 80 cents, a response that was greeted with much laughter by those in the studio, who were quick to accuse him of being out of touch with reality. The following day the Spanish press, quick to latch on to his obvious discomfort, despatched reporters to all corners of the kingdom to conduct a nationwide survey. They discovered that in most towns and cities across the peninsula a cup ...

Posted by Ken

Comments: 1 Comment so far » Categories: All about Tenerife, Culture, Drinking, Tourism

Exhibition reveals the secrets of old underwear

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

A hundred years of underwear is the unlikely theme of an exhibition currently being staged at the Museum of Anthropology in Tenerife. The years in question are from 1850-1950 and the exhibition includes more than 60 items of clothing that were once worn by men and women of the island, the grandparents, or even great-grandparents of today’s younger generation. The purpose of the exhibition is to show the rapid evolution in the design and use of materials in that time. The lingerie items that make up the exhibition are particularly well conserved because many of them have been hidden away in the depths of the museum for many years. Bodices, girdles, corsets, petticoats, nightdresses and other, more intimate items, including a heavy hand-knitted brassiere worn in the early 1900s, are included in the exhibition, part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of Casa de Carta in Valle de Guerra, ...

Posted by Ken

Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Culture, History, La Laguna, Museums

Isle of Tenerife – Blog