Red Marten| València (EFE).- The Fallas of 2023, the first after the pandemic and without restrictions, promise to be the most musical, with already classic formats such as parades with band music, orchestra concerts and festivals in commissions, but also with new festive plans, such as the already extended afternoon with a DJ, the ‘remember’ concerts and the festival in the Alameda.
The Valencian streets recover this year the festive events at full capacity and without anti-covid measures, such as an Offering in which 103,000 falleros are called to parade and in which banda music will play a central role.
about 150 bands
Throughout the fallas period, it is estimated that around 150 bands from the city of Valencia will participate in acts such as the prize-giving, the ninot parade, the offering, parades, presentations or the despertà, although the Federation of Musical Societies of the The Valencian Community does not have exact data because the hiring is done directly between the fault and the band.
In a land of musical entities, where there are 550 societies and schools with 47,000 musicians in the Federation, 60,000 students and more than 200,000 members, the collective is present in 95% of Valencian towns with more than 500 inhabitants.
Musical kick-off
For these Fallas, the federation’s musical kick-off was given on February 26 with the nineteenth Entrada de Bandas, where 13 musical societies performed their songs in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and concluded with a joint interpretation of the pasodoble ‘El Fallero’ .
In addition, as a prior to the Fallas and a tribute to 8M, International Women’s Day, on Sunday 12 a concert by the Federation’s Symphonic Band of Women will be held in La Marina, in which pieces by composers and an urban artist will be performed. will paint a mural live, preceded by a ‘flashmob’ in Shed 2.
This year, in addition, the musical societies have been especially involved in the fight against gender violence, since they will have, together with the commissions, a guide with resources to act against possible cases of violence against women, by virtue of an agreement with the Government Delegation in the Community.
Up to 173 festivals
The already traditional festivals that are celebrated in almost all the Fallas commissions will be lived during the big days of the festival, and that this year from the Federation of Leisure and Tourism of the Community they foresee numerous and multitudinous at the end of the Fallas with a weekend .
The Local Police has authorized 173 festivals in all the districts of the capital for this weekend, with 10 of them in the downtown area and 27 in the neighborhoods of Ruzafa, En Corts, Pla del Remei, Monteolivete, Mailla, Fuente de San Luis, Na Rovella and the southern towns.
In San Isidro, Vara de Quart, Safranar, Senabre, San Marcelino, Favara, Raiosa and La Torre there are 37 verbenas authorized, while in La Fuensanta, el Botánico, Abastos, the neighborhood of Luz, Nou Moles and Sant Pau there will be 8 .
In the area that includes Tendetes, El Calvari, Benicalap, Ciutat Fallera, Marxalenes, Morvedre, Trinitat and Torrefiel there will be 21 verbenas, while there will be 26 in Benimaclet, Orriols, Exposición, Sagunto, Camí Fondo, Penya-Roj, Amistat and the towns from the north, and 44 in the Maritime district.
Tardeo with DJ
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But new formats are also making their way, such as tardeo from five in the afternoon, especially with DJ music, as the Leisure and Tourism Federation (FOTUR) has assured.
It is a format that allows you to fill the day with festive activities for the Fallas commissions, since it can be combined with a subsequent festival, an orchestra concert or other types of parties.
As they have assured, all the federated DJs in FOTUR, which has a census pending update but which they estimate to be between 800 and 1,100, have “at least one gig” during the Fallas, either in fallas tents or in their premises , some even with “two or three dates”.
Fiestas remember
In addition, ‘remember’ parties predominate thematically with music from the 80s and 90s and with special attention to the so-called Ruta del bakalao, with concerts and sessions by the most emblematic names such as José Coll.
Added to this are already classic names in the world of fallas orchestras such as La Pato, the Montecarlo Orchestra or the La Metro Orchestra.
Two-day festival in the heart of Alameda
And the Fallas concerts return to Paseo de la Alameda, next to Viveros, in a festival format, with 16 hours of live music on March 10 and 11, with groups such as Zoo, Fangoria, Miss Cafeína, La Habitación Roja, La Fúmiga, Chimo Bayo and the duo Carlos Areces and Aníbal Gómez DJ, components of Ojete Calor.
This musical proposal returns, after two years of suspension due to the pandemic, in a renewed format of two days of eight hours of live music, from six in the afternoon to three in the morning, with a line-up full of groups both national as venues that sing in Valencian and an expected capacity of 15,000 people.