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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

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Big bangs for big bucks

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

With a massive budget of 162,000 euros, the May celebrations at Los Realejos in the north of Tenerife are spectacular to say the least. The fiesta programme of events began on April 26 and some, notably the sports tournaments, continue until the end of May. But the one event that draws extraordinary crowds to the town is the Exhibicíon Pirotécnica, this year on Thursday, May 3. Two rival manufacturers supply the fireworks for the late-night display, which is generally regarded as being the best anywhere in the Canaries, if not the whole of Spain. And this is on an island where they need little or no excuse for staging spectacular fireworks displays. Thursday’s pyrotechnic show will come at the height of the Festival of the Cross, around which the whole of Los Realejos’s month-long celebrations are centred. The month-long event celebrates the culture and important traditions of ...

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Jazz festival set to become an annual event

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

A festival linking jazz music to dance takes place in La Orotava in the north of Tenerife on Saturday May 5. It is the second time the Jazzindance festival has been staged and it seems likely it will become a permanent fixture on the island’s cultural calendar. Admission to the festival, being staged in the town’s historic Plaza de Constitucíon, is free. A number of British performers are taking part, including the Jazzcotech Dancers from London, who will be organising a Jazzindance Workshop between 10.30am and 2.30pm. In the evening, a series of Jazz gigs and DJ sets takes place on two stages, starting at 9pm and going on into the small hours.

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Any excuse for a party in Puerto

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

They seldom need much of an excuse for a fiesta in Tenerife. But in Puerto de la Cruz in the north of the island they’re planning two fiestas in one day on Thursday May 3. First up are celebrations to honour the founding of the town way back in 1651, involving elaborate and colourful processions through the streets. Before that Puerto was part of the neighbouring town of La Orotava and and indeed was known as Puerto de La Orotava. Puerto had grown in importance because the merchants and traders of prosperous La Orotava needed an outlet for their goods to be shipped off to the Spanish mainland. The Spanish settlers weren’t the first to appreciate the potential afforded by this sheltered little bay. There is evidence that the native Guanche people, who inhabited the island before the Hispanic ...

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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 ...

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