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Paragliding festival lures the world’s best

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
The skies over Socorro beach in the north of Tenerife will be ablaze with colour between April 27 and May 1 when the third Los Realejos International Paragliding Festival takes place. The five-day festival will feature some of the world’s leading exponents of the arts of paragliding, hang gliding and parachuting. The festival has quickly established itself on the international schedule of paragliding events, due in no small part to the fact that Tenerife offers perfect all-year-round conditions for the sport. At the first staging of the event two years ago, two new world records were set, one for paramotor altitude at 5,395 metres and the other in acrobatics when 75 manoeuvres were achieved in a vertical tumble of 1,900 metres, massively overhauling the previous record of 30. The first day of this year’s festival will be devoted to a welcoming party, checking of participants’ ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Festivals, Los Realejos, Music, Paragliding, Paragliding festival, Sport, Tourism

Street arts festival crams in a lot

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
The Arts FestivalMUECA 2007 kicks off tomorrow (Friday March 23), bringing another dimension to the cultural diversity of Puerto de la Cruz in the north of Tenerife. The International Street Arts Festival, now in its third year, takes place in the central streets, squares and around the harbour of Puerto, with a staggering 73 performances lined up over the three days. Entry to most of the activities is free. Last year the festival drew an estimated 15,000 visitors to the town. This event is a cultural showcase for Canarian innovation in comedy, theatre, dancing, music, photography, painting. Arts from a houseThese include shows such as a vertical dance group, who perform on the sides of buildings; a theatre company who out their audiences ...

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Orchestra taking the trail to Texas

Sunday, March 18th, 2007
The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra is to tour Texas in the summer as part of a series of cultural exchanges between the Canary Islands and the Lone Star state. The tour will begin in Houston, Texas’s largest city, on June 28, moving on to historic San Antonio – scene of the famous Battle of the Alamo in 1836 – on June 30. San Antonio, now a city of over a million people, was founded in 1718 by settlers from the Canary Islands. Further concerts are scheduled for Fort Worth on July 2, Laredo on July 4 and Corpus Christi on July 6. Auditorio Tenerife•The Auditorio de Tenerife, home of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. Over 100 musicians and technicians will make the journey from Tenerife for a programme of music that will be typically Spanish in flavour, featuring zarzuela, or light opera, and works by Granados and Falla. The ...

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Tenerife represented in Eurovision Song Contest

Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Boy band Nash will represent Spain in the 52nd staging of the Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki on May 12. Included in the Spanish band’s four-strong line-up is 24-year-old Mikel from Tenerife, a former student at Southampton University. Said to be the romantic member of the group, Mikel is also an actor, model and salsa teacher. The Spanish Eurovision entry was chosen by public vote during a nationally televised competition, with Nash’s song ‘I Love You Mi Vida’ emerging a clear winner. Nash had another song in the final phase of the contest, ‘Busco Una Chica’, which finished fourth. The other members of Nash are Basty, a 25-year-old from Cadiz, Javi from Seville and Ony from Valencia.

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