The Poble Nou de Benitatxell celebrates Santa Cecilia, the festival of musicians and for this, from the Department of Culture, by Victor Bisquert, next to the Band of Music, the Colla La Llebetjà, the Parochial Choir and the Grup de Danses Morro Falquí have organized a special program that will be extended over two weekends and will be concentrated, as was done last year, in a large tent installed in the Plaça de les Pesqueres.
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There will be live performances spread over five days to encourage the participation of all the residents of the municipality. The programming will start on viernes 22 November with the brotherhood dinner in Ca Toni Monica, after which there will be a car in the giant tent.
El Saturday 23, the programming will continue in the morning, at 10: 00 hours, with a parade of the Children's and Youth Instrumental Group and the batucada of the Music School of El Poble Nou de Benitatxell. At the end there will be chocolate with bamba and inflatable mats for the little ones in Plaça del Mercat.
That same afternoon will be very special for new musicians who join the band. As it has been tradition, they will wait excitedly at the doors of their homes for the Banda de Música and the Colla la Llebetjà to pick them up at a parade that will end in the church.
There will be a mass in honor of Santa Cecilia and a concert of the Parochial Choir. This emotional and intense day will end with the great brotherhood dinner of the parish choir, the Colla la Llebetjà and the Music Band together with their partners in the tent.
To end the weekend, the Sunday 24 at 12: 00 hours, a first sample of traditional dances will be held by the Grup de Danses Morro Falquí of El Poble Nou de Benitatxell, which will be accompanied by the Grup de Danses de Moixent. It is the first time that this event is included in the programming of Santa Cecilia. With this, the Department of Culture wants "Continue to strengthen and make the party bigger and more inclusive".
The programming will be extended the other weekend. He viernes 29 November, with the concert of the children's and youth instrumental group, and on Saturday 30, with the concert of the Santa María Magdalena Musicians.
The Councilor for Culture, Victor Bisquert, said that “Through the installation of the big tent in the Plaza de les Pesqueres, we continue betting on integrating all the musical groups and the neighbors of the town into the programming. Santa Cecilia has to be an open and participatory party, not a celebration designed solely for musical associations ”.
The mayor, Miguel Ángel García, has valued the role of the musicians and community groups in the life of the municipality and the need to unite them. “They are very entrenched and loved in our town, they play music to our lives and they come to play our hearts in each of their concerts. They are also great vertebrators and social dynamizers that give soul and life to the municipality, in addition to encouraging and inspiring a taste for the musical formation of future generations ”Garcia said.
