Musica en el Desierto de Granada

We at Perform in Spain had been always searching for new towns and venues to offer to our performance groups and tours and through live music connect with local people and their culture. But also we had been searching for connecting audiences and musicians in natural environments in the nature. This was the main reason that moved us with local and international music friends to started the adventure of our Pueblos Blancos Music Festivals in the white villages of Andalucia, and this is the main reason that is moving us again on this other adventure that will start this next Spring 2025 in one of the towns, Guadix.

The festival Will run every year during  Spring and  Summer, from March until beginning of July and will take place in several of the many towns in the extensive area, a vast territory of  7 722 km 2 and 47 villages and towns.

Open for choral groups, for symphonic orchestras, string and wind ensembles and symphonies.

Both symphonic orchestras and wind ensembles will be free to play their repertoire they wish too, but they will need to include as a theme, at least one work of the western Classical movies by Enio Moriccone as an homage to the spaghetti westerns as this desertic area was chosen for filming some of the most popular westerns.

Those who were filmed in Spain, the most of them, were also known as chorizo westerns.

When the festival is over, the festival will connect with other two festivals, one is the Chorizo Western Music Weekend for  Americana and country small bands which we will inform you soon, and the second is the Jazz en el Desierto, that happens in the small village of Galera, unique for its organization and concerts in the middle of the desert under the stars that are organized for  200 people with much care and love from the organizers that make this jazz event magical.

In the next weeks, we  hope to be able to update more details of this  music festival.

More About the Granada Geopark and its Desert

The Granada Geopark that  also includes the eastern province of Almeria is considered the only desertic landscape in Europe. Just less than an hour northwest of Granada, in the province of Granada, there is a territory with a spectacular landscape and one of the best continental geological records of the last 5 million years. Among other treasures, this record contains the most complete set of fossil remains of the now-extinct large mammals that lived during the Quaternary Period (the last 2.5 million years of the Earth’s history, when humanity appeared on the planet).

The geology of the region has shaped the life and culture of its inhabitants from prehistoric times to our own day. Geology, geomorphology, archaeology and cultural legacy are closely connected in one of the territories where the oldest human remains and ancestral traditions in the European continent are found.

Since the UNESCO Global Geopark declaration was obtained (on 10 July 2020), through the International Geoscience and Geoparks program, this territory – and especially its people – have had a unique opportunity to mitigate the constant depopulation process to which it is subject, as well as to raise public awareness of the importance of the natural, cultural and ethnographic heritage, all with a responsible attitude to the environment. They are harsh lands of exceptional beauty, which preserve a significant and unique part of our geological heritage in the European continent. In the universal language of rocks, they cannot fail to enthrall those who come to discover their fascinating history

Wishing to hear about your interest to be part of it!

Josu Camacho- performinspain