The Sala Gran of Palma’s Teatre Principal was packed last night with a gala that kicked off the Paco de Lucía 2024 Festival and culminated with a concert by Las Migas in which they presented their latest album, Libres, after a world tour that has taken them to perform on stages all over Europe, the United States and Latin America.
The 3rd edition of the festival coincides with the tenth anniversary of the death of the guitarist Paco de Lucía. Its director, Soledad Bescós, wished to express her gratitude for the good reception this event has received in Mallorca, the aim of which is “to acknowledge that this island was very significant for the great master”. The event was also attended by the president of the Consell, Llorenç Galmés, the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, and the president of the Fundación Paco de Lucía, Gabriela Canseco.
Programme of the Paco de Lucía Festival 2024
The opening gala of the musical event will be held on 8 March in the Sala Gran of the Teatre Principal with a performance by Miguel Poveda. Tickets can already be purchased on the Teatre Principal’s website, although they are about to sell out.
The programme of the Festival Paco de Lucía 2024 will be completed with two other performances. On the one hand, the show Bailes de Bestias, winner of the Max 2022 awards for best dance show and best choreography, by the bailaor Jesús Carmona, winner of the National Dance Award 2022, Benois de la Danse Award 2021 and director of the Ballet Español, which will take place on the 13th of March at 8 pm in the Auditorium of Palma. A few days later, on the 17th of March at 7 pm, it will be the turn of Chambao, who will premiere their latest work (En la cresta del ahora) at Trui Teatre. At the same time, the Fundació Miró Mallorca, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma and Caixaforum will offer educational activities to round off the festival.
As a novelty, the Festival Paco de Lucía 2024 will launch the Young Talent Scholarship, endowed with 3,000 euros, which this year will be awarded to the 16-year-old flamenco pianist Antón Cortés. The musician, who won the Got Talent Spain judges’ battle and has already won the Venencia Flamenca 2023 award and the New Creators Award, will perform on the 9th at the Teatre Xesc Forteza.
A festival for social and cultural integration
Founded by Soledad Bescós, always with the consensus of the Paco de Lucía Foundation, this festival pays tribute, from 2022, to the figure of the universal guitar genius. The proceeds from box office takings go to social projects and pedagogical innovation, scholarships, archives and other projects of the Paco de Lucía Foundation, which promotes initiatives that work for the social and cultural integration of vulnerable groups through flamenco music.
Paco de Lucía spent the last years of his life with his family on the island, where they have their home and studio where he composed and recorded his last work, Canción Andaluza, Grammy Award for best album of 2014. After his death in 2014, the guitar master was declared an adopted son of Mallorca by the Consell de Mallorca.
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