The Port of Santa Cruz was filled last night with solidarity art on the occasion of the Together for the Mountains concert. Tenerife. About twenty singers showed the best of their repertoire to help raise funds for the restoration of the 12,000 hectares burned in the fire that devastated the forest crown of the Island last summer. This solidarity between artists inside and outside illuminated a night that was as emotional as it was unique. From Coti to Blanca Paloma and from Diana Navarro to Nira, Agoney or Cristina Ramos. An accurate metaphor as a summary based on the combination of the foreign with the native through melodies that faced the fire. As did canaries and people arriving from other lands for almost three months until the flames were put out.
Set on fire by some attitudes that went beyond the mandatory and essential security to almost reach idiocy, and only thanks to the work of press colleague Eva Castillo, everything was prepared for the start of the show with some delay. The people did not know very well, according to what they heard in the space between the enabled chairs, who came to sing except for the duo formed by the brothers. Adexe and Nau. They seem to respond in their purest essence to a peculiar mass phenomenon. For masses of domestic consumption, in principle, given those Canarian names.
Rosa Dávila, the president of the Cabildo of Tenerife, takes its place in the first rows next to the dome of the insular area of Medio Natural, which has the logical prominence given by tonight’s organization dedicated to environmental regeneration. From the counselor Blanca Pérez to the island directors Pedro Millán (Environment) and Alejandro Molowny (Waste).
Things liven up after a somewhat dull preview. Little by little the venue fills up in the space – a stage aside because it will be different – that will host the traditional Puertos de Tenerife Christmas concert on the 25th. The public waits expectantly for the start. May we never feel fire in our soul again proclaims the lyrics of the realejero folk group Tigaray to open the festival with the puppy and the yarn as symbolic elements to represent ours.
The presenters, Laura Afonso (Televisión Canaria) and Roberto Castilla (Televisión Española) lead the event. They make an initial call for solidarity in front of the screen that shows images of the Tenerife mountains. In the background, a description of the voracious fire that raged since August 15 to burn 8% of the island’s surface, most of it in the forest crown and in the territorial limits of twelve municipalities.
After Tigaray’s prologue, the list of artists opens with one from the land, although increasingly international: Agoney. Between clapping, shouts and whistles, it raises the degrees of a cool night but less than what it should be on December 15 “There are no excuses not to donate,” Agonay assures from the stage before presenting a winner of Operación Triunfo “and moral “Your face sounds familiar to me”: Nia.
Nia, Latin hurricane on stage that lifts up the audience and arouses enthusiasm. He asks for support for the cause and for “many bizum to be sent.” He sings Friday the 13th on Friday the 15th with that Puerto Rican or Cuban style that was born here and went there, Atlantic Ocean through. Or vice versa.
Fabiola Socas and José Manuel Ramos thrilled with a shocking version of Flores nuevvas. Eduardo Rojo accompanied them on the piano. Fabiola Socas recalled her brilliant participation in the act of tribute to all those who fought against the fire in the mountains of the Island.
Then the actions were chained together. In this order, that of the crazy Arianna, Ledes Díaz, the Bombay group or Tatiana Delaluz. The time then came to explain, through a video, the idea that motivated the concert; raise funds for the Renace Project carried out by the Foresta Foundation. And then one of the stellar moments of the night, that of the performance of Blanca Paloma, representative of Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Time for local singers again: ST Pedro. the already famous and proven Jadel and the idols of the young Adexe and Nau or Dellacruz. Plus the Mantra group.
Once again Blanca Paloma gave way to the powerful voice of Grancaanria Cristina Ramos. Agoney then returned to the stage before another stellar performance.
Coti and Gonzalo Hermida
The young Gonzalo Hermida made a duet with the Argentine Coti, one of the stars of the night. Together they starred in the world premiere of the song they wrote with four hands: Where the Stars Say. Coti then performed his smash hit Nothing Was a Mistake. In acoustic. To finish, the singing of Color Esperanza with the Mandrágora boys and girls choir.
Another illustrious, Diana Navarro, starred in a new duet, among the many of the evening, with Tatiana de the light. Conchita, at the piano, sang the song dedicated exclusively to Tenerife before doing another duet, with Gonzalo Hermida who repeated that role on several occasions with different partners. The artists threw themselves into special versions and those duets that made this initiative a unique show.
As a final touch, all the participants sang together a song that, as a first, they announced that every time it is heard it will generate rights in favor of the Tenerife Renace project.
The song has a name loaded with symbolism like almost everything during this act: The Teide.
a single objective
Get the maximum donations for Tenerife Renace from the Foresta Foundation. It’s what was intended. Donate, raise, bizum, account number… They were the most repeated words with solidarity, recovery and mountains. The cocktail on the stage of the Port Precinct with a single objective: to promote the restoration of the forest mass burned in the summer fire. Together through the mountains of Tenerife.
