Zamora (EFE).- The Government of Castilla y León has canceled the concert of the Sierra de la Culebra de Zamora, scheduled for next June 3 in Villardeciervos (Zamora), after the Fangoria group has also renounced being in him, after having previously done so by the Asturian band Marlon, the group from Valladolid Naïa and the Zamorano band Markfeel.
The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the regional government has explained in a statement that it has been forced to suspend “the tourism initiative that it proposed”.
The idea was to organize a concert after the fires that devastated more than 55,000 hectares and that killed four people last summer in the Sierra de la Culebra and neighboring areas of Zamora.
The Board has ensured that the Ministry of Culture has been working in recent months on the planning of “a specific action” whose purpose was “to support the area affected by the fires last summer through culture.”
Public money
The concert had generated discomfort among residents and associations in the area because despite the fact that it was advertised as solidarity, it cost 160,000 euros, some of the groups were going to charge a cache for it and admission was free, so they did not leave to raise funds for the victims of the fires.
Culture has stressed that the reactivation of tourism in the area has always been one of the main objectives of its policies and for this reason it proposed a concert that would serve “to motivate the tourist revitalization of the towns of the Sierra de la Culebra.”
It has also highlighted that this concert was promoted within its powers and “as a complement, in no case a substitute”, for the aid and actions carried out by the different ministries of the Junta de Castilla y León.
Fangoria announced this Wednesday early in the afternoon on their social networks that they would not perform because the concert did not fulfill the initial spirit that was transferred to them.
A position similar to the one that the Marlon group used this Wednesday, after the last days they had also announced that they were disassociating themselves from the event first Markfeel and then Naîa.
In parallel, the association “La Culebra no se calla” and the Mahide City Council have begun preparations for another charity concert to be held in summer.
In this case, the groups are not going to charge cache and that they are going to raise funds with the sale of tickets for those affected by the two great fires last summer that burned part of the Sierra de la Culebra reserve. EFE