The first festival, 100 years ago, was linked pinch football. Everybody had a ball, nary uncertainty | Credit: ajfelanitx/Instagram
Felanitx Town Council has unveiled nan lineup for nan Sant Agustí show that will return spot from August 22 until August 31, marking its centenary this twelvemonth pinch 9 days of concerts featuring Amaral, Oques Grasses, Lori Meyers, Mago de Oz, and Maria Hein among nan impermanent artists.
“I want to item nan awesome 100th day festival, which kicks disconnected connected Friday (August 22),” said nan Councillor for nan Festivals, Toni Peña. “This show will beryllium a existent tribute to these 10 decades of euphony and awesome achievements that person passed done our festivals.” Peña promised this “won’t conscionable beryllium a festival, but a expansive philharmonic and pinch spectacular ocular effects, created from nan heart, pinch nan information of astonishing artists, organisations, and group from our municipality, and pinch collaborations from powerful musicians who will make this evening a unsocial experience.”
The politician of Felanitx, Catalina Soler, besides expressed her restitution pinch nan milestone of 100 years of festivals and recalled really nan beginnings of these festivities were linked to section football. Soler, arsenic Councillor for Culture, recalled that “the Sant Agustí events besides see nan publication of a book astir these 100 years of festivals, 100 years of Sant Agustins, wherever nan champion artists of each era person performed. A book coordinated by Juan Ciria, successful which various group from nan municipality lend their activity connected this milestone.”
‘A historical event’
That is really nan Councillor for Festivals, Toni Peña, expressed himself astatine nan position of this year’s Sant Agustí festival. “We’re not conscionable talking astir a show program, but a historical milestone: we’re celebrating 100 years of festivals successful Felanitx. A full period of music, joy, and moments that are portion of our personality arsenic a town,” he noted.
That’s why Felanitx is erstwhile again making a patient committedness to bringing top-level artists. Amaral, Oques Grasses, Lori Meyers, and Mago de Oz, on pinch section musicians for illustration Maria Hein, among others, dress up nan lineup of performances. Ms. Peña besides said nan show will beryllium an authentic tribute to these 10 decades of euphony and nan outstanding achievements that person passed done our festivals.
The aged gross replica
This festival will characteristic nan information of organisations and associations from Felanitx. During nan presentation, representatives of Mai Som Tots Teatre, Margalida Puig and Rafael Amengual, stated, “We’re taking a look backmost complete these 100 years, pinch different artists. We’ve divided it into different blogs, each of which will characteristic surprises that we won’t reveal. However, we tin almost surely opportunity that location will beryllium performances by Antonio Machin aliases La Trinca, to sanction a fewer of nan artists who person performed astatine nan park’s festivals.”
That aforesaid day, nan 22nd, astatine noon, nan replica of nan aged gross that gave entranceway to nan Sa Torre Municipal Park will beryllium inaugurated, “a awesome of this abstraction that accompanied america for truthful galore generations and that we are now restoring to springiness it a spot of honour connected this very typical anniversary.”