SPORT Children’s sport in the sport area, just outside the port of Santa Cruz, Tues, Wed, and Fri from 10 am – 2 pm Canoeing in the port, 9 am Thurs and Fri Aerobics in the Plaza España, 9 am Thurs and Fri Basketball in the sport area, just outside the port of Santa Cruz, 9 am Thurs and Fri Skatingin the sea front car park, 9 am Thurs and…
Like everywhere else, the Canaries have their own folk music, and no, it’s not “The Birdie Song.” The group Alfaguara will be performing folk music and dancing in traditional costumes on Saturday night, the 29th of May, in the car park in Cancajos. (Presumably, this means the big one at the north end of the village, opposite the Centro Cancajos.) And Barlovento has a fiesta, also this weekend. I haven’t…
The island has a small, quarterly cultural magazine called Ruido, and issue 6 came out on Friday. As usual, they held a fiesta in a local bar, (Rocke’s Bar on the Calle Real) with live music from local bands. And as usual, the place was packed. The quality of the bands on these gigs is variable, but I like live music anyway.Of course the magazine is on sale. And the…
There’s a new musical project in Santa Cruz de la Palma with backing from local government. On Saturdays, Sundays, and Public holidays, there’s often free live music somewhere. So far six groups have joined the scheme, and almost every day, more businesses sign up. This is a Cuban-style group called Chango, playing at the Kiosko de Eliseo halfway up the Avenida del Puente. They played from noon until about half-past…
Last night the Chamber Orchestra of Breña Baja gave a concert in Cancajos. It was rather windy, so they moved it to just outside the tourist office. I didn’t hear all of it, but they seemed pretty good to me.
Lately it’s felt like all work and no play. I’ve been trying to catch up with a long translation job, keep up with the blogs, and get issue 4 of Ruido up on the website before last night’s launch party. The trouble was, all three things were computer jobs, so I’ve sat in this chair far too much, and for the first time in my life I’ve had aching shoulders….