Cristina Mahelo, Lula Mora, Isa Izquierdo & MVBA, OM Domínguez and Nuria Herrero complete the line-up for the 18th edition of one of the country’s most recognised music festivals
Five artists from the Canary Islands join the musical line-up for the Boreal Festival 2025, which will take place in Los Silos (Tenerife) from 17 to 21 September. Tickets for this prestigious festival in Spain are available at www.festivalboreal.org
Cristina Mahelo, Lula Mora, Isa Izquierdo & MVBA, OM Domínguez, and Nuria Herrero are all set to join the line-up for this 18th edition of one of the country’s most renowned music festivals. Thus, there are now twenty (20) musical acts confirmed for the 2025 edition of the Boreal Festival.
This rich showcase of emerging musical culture from the Canary Islands adds to the 15 international artists already announced for this eighteenth edition. Califato 3/4, Israel Fernández, Lapili, Carmen Xía, La Otra & Jhana Beat, Pablopablo, Matah & Chalart58, the Angolan Pongo, the Guatemalan Sara Curruchich, the Colombians Laura Pérez and La Valentina, the Italian La Niña, the Mexican Girl Ultra, and the multicultural bands Kumbia Boruka and New Regency Orchestra are the 15 names set to perform at the Boreal Festival 2025 alongside the representation of Canary Island music, which is a hallmark of this festival.
Cristina Mahelo is an interdisciplinary artist: a musician, artisan, and creator of visual and performance art, her work flows between languages, blending tradition and avant-garde with the ease of someone who has deeply engaged with their roots.
As for Lula Mora (Silvia and Sara), they describe their music as craftsmanship, careful in every detail; minimalist yet meticulous, it is ‘cooked slowly’.
On their side, the duo Isa Izquierdo & MVBA comes from the union of Isa Izquierdo (singer and songwriter from Tenerife) and MVBA (producer and DJ from Gran Canaria). It is a project that fuses reggae, DUB, experimental electronic music, and other urban sounds.
The Boreal Festival 2025 will also feature the winning musical proposal from Sonora 2025, that of OM Domínguez, an artist from Gran Canaria making his debut in Tenerife with this performance. His musical offering with his band is an eclectic fusion that transcends the limits of a single genre. In each piece, OM Domínguez combines the essence of urban music with meticulous lyrical craftsmanship and Latin rhythms.
Another musical addition from the Archipelago for this edition of Boreal is Nuria Herrero. Her multidisciplinary project explores the power of music, word, song, and the diverse sonorities of percussion instruments as vehicles to highlight the realities faced by women and other silenced bodies, within contexts marked by social, ancestral, and symbolic elements.
Boreal Festival, a leading festival in the Canary Islands
The Boreal Festival is regarded as a key cultural showcase in the Canary Islands, having received several accolades throughout its journey. Among the most recent is the award recognising it as ‘Best Musical Programming,’ received at the 2024 Canary Music Awards. In addition, it has been recognised by the Cultural Observatory in Spain as an exemplary project in its social commitment and sustainable development; and among the best in rural culture in 2024.
The Boreal Festival is the event that paved the way for multidisciplinary festivals in the Canary Islands, being a pioneer in developing numerous activities centred on eco-sustainability and gender perspective. It has been recognised in the Iberian Festival Awards for its musical programme and as the most important sustainable festival in the country, and it received the Fest Award for Best Festival in Spain in diversity and gender equality.
The Boreal Festival is organised by Folelé Producciones. It is collaborated on by the Town Council of Los Silos and sponsored by the Government of the Canary Islands through Promotur Turismo Canarias. It is a project funded by the Department of Culture and its Canary Islands Cultural Development Institute (ICDC), the Ministry of Ecological Transition of the Government of the Canary Islands, the Insular Council of Tenerife through the Culture Department, and the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Spain through the INAEM. It is supported by Juventudcanaria.com through the IDEO Foundation, as well as the Social Action of the Tenerife Council through Sinpromi. Other bodies, entities, and companies, such as the SGAE Foundation and Casa África, also collaborate.
