Serenada, Friday 20: Darío Meta, Cantando Poetas and Selectomía in the Anglican Church gardens (Puerto de la Cruz)
Serenada, Puerto de la Cruz's new festival of music and poetry, opens on Friday 20 November at 18:30 in the gardens of the Anglican Church in Parque Taoro: Darío Meta at the piano, new songs set to poems in Cantando Poetas, Selectomía and, at 22:30, Somnolescencia Programada. Free entry until the space is full; only the Depedro concert at 21:15 needs a ticket.
Serenada is the new festival of Puerto de la Cruz town council's culture department, and it lives on the border between music and poetry: neither a literary festival nor a conventional music one, but a route designed for discovering, listening up close, talking and slowing down until it is time to rest. It focuses on collective creation and on an unhurried, close relationship with the audience, and its motto sums it up in three words: «Encontrarse. Escuchar. Descansar.» (Meet. Listen. Rest.) Everything takes place in the Anglican Church (All Saints) and its gardens in Parque Taoro.
On Friday 20 November pianist Darío Meta opens at 18:30 with «Impropiano» in the Espacio Singular; he has played venues such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Berlin City Hall, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg and the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn. At 19:45 in the Espacio Circular, Cantando Poetas presents songs written for the festival from the work of poets, with Salomé Moreno, Della Du and Xavi Suárez. At 20:45 Selectomía · Sesiones Sonoras takes over the Terraza de las Letras: a figure from the music world picks seven songs linked to a poem or a poet. At 22:30 Somnolescencia Programada closes the night in the Espacio Crepuscular. Everything is free until full; the one exception is Depedro's acoustic concert at 21:15, with tickets on Tickety. The nearest bus stop is Taoro (4101).
