Title: Buenos Aires Tango Concert
Location: Auditorio Infanta Leonor, Los Cristianos
Description: You’ll know you’ve been tangoed after this concert. Starts at 9 pm and all tickets are just 10 euros, get yours from the Cultural Centre or take your chance on the night.
Start Time: 21.00
Date: 2011-08-13

Tenerife Magazine’s round up of some of the most interesting news stories of the week in Tenerife.

Tenerife’s Wines are the Best in Spain
Congratulations to Sociedad Cooperativa Cumbres de Abona and Bodegas Insulares Tenerife, S.A. who both picked up awards at the prestigious Baco Cosecha wine awards for Spanish wines harvested in 2010. The Sociedad Cooperativa Cumbres de Abona on Tenerife’s southern slopes picked up the gold medal for their Testamento Malvasia in the category for barrel matured whites, whilst north Tenerife’s Bodegas Insulares Tenerife, S.A. won the bronze award in the red wines category for their young red, El Ancón. It would be positively rude not to toast their success with a glass or two of each…salud.

Santa Cruz in the Top Forty
But this particular statistic is not one to crow about. A recent survey of more than 5000 local authorities in Spain that have some sort of debt (there are over 8000 in total in Spain, so respect to the 3000 who don’t have) revealed that Santa Cruz came in at number 37 with just over 97 million euros of debt. It’s an improvement of a few places since the last time the study was carried out but it’s not really the sort of top forty that you want to be in. However, there was one Canarian local authority who came out worse. Neighbours and rivals Las Palmas de Gran Canaria were seven places higher up the black list at number 30; a fact which no doubt softened the blow a little for the Las Palmas-phobes on Tenerife.

A Fishy Business
A story that made us smile this week was the news report regarding agents from the Canarian Police Force breaking up a heinous smuggling ring. In truth it wasn’t exactly heinous as the culprits were illegal fishermen caught red (snapper) handed on a beach in Los Realejos. But with a haul of over 30 kilos of fish and nearly 10 kilos of shellfish these guys were clearly no minnows. Every cloud has a silver lining however, and residents of a local old folks’ home found themselves the beneficiaries of the crime as the Canarian Police donated the fishy haul to them ( fish & dodgy hips perhaps). We don’t want to carp on about Tenerife’s police forces but at least the story provided a clue as to what the Canarian Police Force actually do. Finally, we’re still trying to confirm reports that the three perpetrators were all sporting mullets. Okay, that’s enough of that nonsense.

Camino de Socorro – A Site of Cultural Interest at Last
It’s only taken 21 years, but this week the historic pilgrims’ route of Camino de Socorro in Güímar was finally declared a Site of Cultural Interest. Thousands follow the route each year to commemorate the place where the Virgin of Candelaria was first sighted on Tenerife at the unassuming hamlet at El Socorro. Anyone who says that it takes a lifetime to get anything done on Tenerife is exaggerating…it only takes decades.

And finally the TIT (This Is Tenerife) of the week award goes to…the organisers of the Michael Bolton concert

With little more than a month before the big summer concert featuring Michael Bolton and Kenny G at Costa Adeje Golf  on 8th July there is incredibly, and worryingly, still no sign of tickets going on sale.
The official Sun Live Festival website still bears the legend ‘more information soon’ on its ticket information page.

Certainly it’s not the norm for a concert of this calibre not to be making tickets available way in advance of the date to maximise attendance and give visitors who want to plan a trip to Tenerife to coincide with seeing Michael Bolton time to organise their schedules.

Given that the organisers have experience of putting on concerts of this magnitude it seems unlikely to be purely down to inept marketing and planning (then again…) so it suggests that there might be another issue.

No doubt the mystery will be cleared up soon but, as one Spanish visitor to the organisers’ website commented, it is ‘muy raro’ indeed.

Title: Gospel Sinfonico
Location: Santa Cruz Quayside
Description: The annual Christmas Day FREE concert is a great tradition. On a grand scale, this year with 200 performers and featuring the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra and the Mississippi Mass Choir. starts at 10pm (TBC) and ends just after midnight with a lavish firework display.
Date: 2010-12-25

Title: Rosana – Free concert
Location: Candelaria Fiesta
Description: The Lanzarote born singer will be taking to the stage in Plaza de la Basilica at 11.30 for an hour. Sounds like a good way to round off a day of festivities.
Date: 2010-07-31

Title: Aterciopelados – Free Concert
Location: El Medano plaza
Description: Top Colombian band Aterciopelados perform live with support act Karlovy Vary. starts at 8pm.
Date: 2010-07-18

Title: Power Of Music
Location: Plaza del Iglesia, Buzanada
Description: Early start (6pm) for this youth aimed concert. Bands include DMent, Dangerous Mistake, Alto Voltaje, Mr Day Tripper, and B-For-Team.
Date: 2010-07-03

Title: Barricada – Concert
Location: Parque Maritimo, Santa Cruz
Description: My head banging friends assure me that these Spanish rockers compare favourably with AC/DC. The Parque car park near the Auditorium should be rocking well. Show starts at 10pm, tickets 20 euros from www.generaltickets.com/cajacanarias
Date: 2010-04-24

The earthquake tragedy in Haiti has shocked the world and left everyone wondering what they can do to help. Many communities, nationalities and faiths have come together to offer help, and that is very much the case in Tenerife. A concert in Santa Cruz on Friday 29 January, and a street fair in Adeje on Sunday 7 February will be focal points for donations of money, food and clothes.

Some 70 business’s, and 10 top Canarian based musicians and comedians have united to stage the Santa Cruz concert at the docks esplanade from 9pm. Acts include local reggaeton sisters K-Narias, Gospel Shine Voices, Anne Peters (formerly of Boney M) En Clave de Ja, Cuban singer Mayelin, comedian Manolo Viera and singer Pepe Benavente. Tickets are only 10 euros and can be bought through the Caja Canarias cashpoints and through the General Tickets website.

Tenerife already has a link to Haiti, the San Gerardo school in the capital Port Au Prince, was part funded by local fund raising. When the school collapsed in the quake there were 300 children inside, it’s still unclear how many survived.

Following on from the concert, there will be a childrens event the next day on the area just above the ferry port. This will include a bouncy castle, play areas, magic and theatre workshops and will run most of the day.

ADEJE, 7th  FEBRUARY

The Adeje event has been organised by the Hindu community and quickly grown to include 15 other cultural groups. From 10am to 9pm on Sunday 7^th February, the streets around the main Adeje football ground will be full of food stalls, dancing, games, clothes and many other attractions. The Adeje council and mayor, Jose Miguel Rodriguez Fraga, have thrown their support behind the initiative, and the Indian Consul for Tenerife, Gope Mathani and the Chief of Police for Las Americas, Carlos Ludeña will also come along to give their support.

At the end of the event, the money raised will go to the Spanish Red Cross, Unicef and Medicos del Mundo, but they are also appealing for clothes, blankets and non perishable food. They can be dropped off at the Hindi Cultural Centre at La Pineda, opposite Termal Aqua, from 10am to 10pm and there are other collection points around Tenerife, you can call Raj for more information on 637869520, or email ahts4u@gmail.com or go to the Facebook group Feria Hindi – Ayuda Haiti.

Title: Divertimenti Classical Concert
Location: Los Cristianos Cultural Centre
Description: FREE concert featuring seasonal music with a classical feel, played by Divertimenti Orchestra. Conducted by Colin Price and featuring Tenerife soprano Beatriz Ramos. Starts at 8.30pm.
Date: 2010-01-02

Title: OST Christmas Concert
Location: Santa Cruz port esplanade
Link out: Click here
Description: Tenerife Symphony Orchestra round off christmas night with their annual open air FREE concert. Rousing standards from the highly acclaimed orchestra.
Starts at 10pm, ends late with a spectacular display of fireworks.
Date: 2009-12-25