The Lloret Outdoor Summer Festival is presented to the public with more than a hundred cultural and nature activities. The activities will take place between 14 June and 27 September and include guided tours, open-air cinema, music in different corners of Lloret in different styles and genres, circus, clown and activities to enjoy the town’s natural surroundings.
Since 2016, Lloret Turisme has brought together, under the umbrella of the Lloret Outdoor Summer Festival, the summer activities organised by Turisme itself, but also by Culture, Cultural Heritage, Economic Promotion and private entities and agents in the municipality, and presents a unique programme of more than a hundred cultural events to be held in Lloret, most of which are free of charge, during the summer months.
The programme of activities begins on the weekend of 14, 15 and 16 June when the Americanos Fair will be held in the city. This year’s event is back on track after the forced stop due to the pandemic, and after a final edition in 2023 with a smaller format. For three days, the main protagonists will be the Indianos of Lloret de Mar, popularly known as “Americanos”, who were those who left for countries such as Cuba in search of a better life. Marina Nicolàs, Councillor for City Promotion, explained that this fair, now in its 11th year, is a tribute to all the ‘Indianos’ and their link with Lloret.
· Music returns this summer with the Clon Festival, the Fenals de Música and the Saturday sardanes.
Live music is one of the highlights of the programme, which includes the Clon Festival, the Fenals the Música cycle in August and the sardana dances on Saturdays.
The Clon Festival, which will be held at La Roca d’en Maig, will begin on 6 July with a concert by Capinàs, who will offer us a concert characterised by the fusion of rumba with styles such as timba, cumbia, flamenco and funk.
On 20 July there will be a concert paying tribute to the 1969 Woodstock Festival, which aims to take us back to the legendary American festival.
Two more tribute concerts are scheduled for August. On 10 August, a tribute concert to Delinqüentes, which pays tribute to the rumba-rock of the Jerez band from La Frontera. The cycle will close on 31 August with a tribute concert to Bob Marley by Natxo Tarrés, who, accompanied by his band, the Wireless, will present a concert that aims to commemorate the more than 30 years since Marley’s death with the musical rigour of musicians from bands such as Gossos and Macaco.
Music will also take centre stage during the Santa Cristina town festival, with a concert by the Figaflawas and the Tropikal Band on 23 July on Lloret beach, the singing of havaneres on 25 July in Sa Caleta, the concert by the Principal de la Bisbal on 26 July and, as a novelty, Lloret is organising an electronic music concert on 27 July in Sa Caleta. The Ball de Plaça and the maritime procession on 24th July, the day of Santa Cristina, the correfoc de Festa Major on 19th July and the fireworks display on 26th July complete the programme.
The first three Thursdays in August will see the return of the Fenals de Música cycle, a series of concerts programmed for years at this time of year on the sand of Fenals beach. This year Scarlets and The Femme Soul Band, Mabel Flores and Piratas Rumbversions have been programmed.
Scarlets and The Femme Soul Band: an all-female band that projects the full force of soul and jazz with songs that pay homage to the main divas of these musical genres throughout history.
With her new album, Estic prou bé, which gives its name to her tour, Mabel Flores projects a confluence of different musical genres, which move between Mediterranean music, Afro-Latin music and singer-songwriter pop, together with fresh and honest lyrics, generally written with social criticism and full of strength.
And Piratas Rumbversiones, forged in Barcelona and near the Besòs river, with a cast of artists of proven solvency in the music scene, members of Muchachito Bombo Infierno, Rosario, La Kinky Beat, etc. propose a concert around the world of rumba, looking for empathy with the audience and making them participate and creating a perfect union.
On Saturdays in the summer, the sardana dances will return to the Plaça de la Vila with the country’s leading coplas. For the Councillor for Culture, Isabel Bernal, we are proud to announce that Lloret is celebrating 98 years of sardana dancing on summer nights and we want to showcase it.
Lastly, the summer musical events are complemented by the Oberia de Santa Cristina, which every Friday in August presents a programme of five concerts both inside and outside the chapel. Meanwhile, the Amics de la Música de Lloret association organises the celebration of World Music Day on 21 June, with performances by several of the town’s musicians on Passeig Jacint Verdaguer.
The city’s private offer also includes the third edition of the Music & Fun festival, which will be held in Cala Gran from 5 to 7 July. The cultural events organised by the Gran Casino Costa Brava also complement the summer cultural offer.
· Circus, dance and clowning
For yet another year, Lloret Turisme is organising free circus and dance performances in the street. The programme is supported by the Teatre de Lloret and will bring four different proposals to the town this summer.
The cycle will open on 10 July with the Belgian circus company Be Flat. They present the show Ludo & Arsène, an acrobatic duo that will be performing on a ladder in Plaça Pere Torrent at 9 p.m., offering spectators all kinds of improbable situations. On 16th July, Esbart Dansaire Joaquim Ruyra will be performing a selection of traditional Catalan dances at the Roca d’en Maig. Finally, on 18 July, the Lloret Country Group will offer a sample of their talent in Plaça Pere Torrent.
On 6 August it will be the turn of the clown with the show Gran Sonata, by the Girona company Le Puant. A contemporary clown and gestural theatre show for all audiences in which improvisation plays a fundamental role. And the cycle will close with the show Nüshu, by the company Capicua on 23 August, an acrobatic proposal made up entirely of women with a magical and impressive staging.
The Teatre de Lloret will also open its doors this summer for open rehearsals of shows being created, two of which will premiere at the Festival Grec in Barcelona this summer. And on Wednesdays in June, July and August the open-air cinema programme will return, each week in a different neighbourhood of Lloret.
· Guided tours and dramatised visits to rediscover the cultural heritage of Lloret.
Lloret’s summer programme also includes several proposals to help locals and visitors discover Lloret’s cultural heritage. From June to September, every Saturday morning from June to September, visitors can follow the so-called Indiano route to discover the town’s Indiano past, a visit that will end at the Can Font house museum.
Every Friday from June to August at the Maritime Museum you can enjoy the dramatised visit Miquel Boadas Parera. A man from Lloret born in Havana, organised by the Lloret cultural company Amargura Cultura. And in July, the Santa Clotilde Studios dramatised visit will be held every Saturday in July and August. Guided tours of the Santa Clotilde Gardens are scheduled for Sundays in July until 4 August. This visit will be repeated on 1 September.
In August a new dramatised visit to the Modernist Cemetery entitled Dear Heydrich and other letters… A visit that will take place on Fridays in August and September at 9 p.m. in the evening.
· Lloret Nature, proposals for discovering the natural environment.
Lloret Turisme, through the Xatrac Environmental Association, offers a wide range of activities at the Casa del Mar on Fenals beach, including family workshops in the natural environment, snorkelling trips, family workshops on marine biology and family gymkhanas in the Santa Clotilde Gardens. Tickets can be booked on the website www.tickets.lloretdemar.org.
The diada castellera on 22nd September and a concert by the Girona Conservatory of Music Philharmonic Orchestra on 15th September at the Theatre will bring the summer programme to a close, culminating on 26th and 27th September with a programme of street events organised by Lloret Turisme to celebrate World Tourism Day.
For the Councillor for Tourism, Frederich Guich, “The Lloret Outdoor Summer Festival is a declaration of intent: that citizens and visitors find Lloret de Mar a friendly, welcoming and open city. Because in the end, culture and the city are a natural tandem, a way of explaining our city and the history of our people”.
You can see the entire summer programme at this link:
https://www.lloret.cat/fitxers/pdf-destequem/lloret-outdoor-summer-festival-2024.pdf
