Cross port recover the splendor of its Great Celebrations of July with a program with more than a hundred acts that begin this Wednesday, June 29, 2022, with the reading of the proclamation by the singer and painter Chago Melian, whose voice has been linked for years to some of the most emotional moments of this celebration and in 2022 is also the author of the oil painting that illustrates the advertising poster. The return of these festivities has a date especially marked in the calendar of all Porto inhabitants: the tuesday july 12the day in which the multitudinous boat of the Virgen del Carmen and San Telmo. Three years later.
San Telmo beach was the place chosen by the Porto City Council to present a program on Monday 27 (available at a specific website) that recovers thirteen years later acts such as the announcing cavalcade or the burning of the idler, which traditionally put an end to the festivities. They will also return, after the break forced by the pandemic, the dance of magicians, the sardine or the small boat.
The mayor of Porto Marco Gonzalez (PSOE)wanted to highlight the generosity and involvement of the lagoon artist ChagoMelián: «He accepted with pride not only being a town crier, but also he gave us an oil painting with the party poster. A total artist who feels this city as his own and who moves us every year as if it were the first time». In reference to the already traditional musical intervention of him during the boat of the Virgin of Carmen and San Telmoin which he plays the emotional Ave Maria and other topics.
Melián also thanked the tourist city for the call to contribute to “continue enhancing the festivals” of which he said that he lives them “always intensely because I carry them in my heart and, in some way, they have also marked the art that I want to share with this humble contribution that I hope you like». Despite being from La Laguna by birth, Melián confessed to feeling “just another Porto native”.
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The act of reading the proclamation and the presentation of candidates will be tomorrow, Wednesday; the queen’s election gala is scheduled for July 7; the announcing parade, on July 8; the Canarian dinner and the dance of the magicians, on Saturday, July 9, and the great ship of the Virgen del Carmen and San Telmo returns to the dock of Puerto de la Cruz on Tuesday, July 12. The small boat, on Sunday 17.
The Councilor for Festivities, Alberto Castilla (PSOE), added that “with the return of the cavalcade and the burning of the idler we recover traditions that had been lost for different reasons, and we do so with the conviction that all these acts vindicate the popular and historical character that gives us identity.” Music will also be the protagonist with the Cook Music Festival, Canary Islands Jazz & More (from July 20 to 23) or the long-awaited concert by the legendary British group Pet Shop Boyswhich performs on July 14 in El Peñón.
Sebastian Marquez He stressed that “it will undoubtedly be a very special year because we will be able to see again all those people who congregate through the usual route of the Great Power of God and that shared feeling that honors us as a brotherhood.” Santiago Rodriguezof the recently recovered Brotherhood of the Virgen del Carmen, highlighted “the illusion and pride that, together with the rest of the brotherhoods, honor the images that we love so much.”
The festivities will officially begin this Wednesday, June 29, with the reading of the proclamation and the presentation of the eight candidates for the title of queen of the Great July Festivities, at Lago Martianez.
