"Xàbia is innovative in music", stressed the councilor for culture, Quico Moragues in the presentation of the II Festival Ágora Actual Percussió. An event to be held, from the 9 to the 15 in July, in different areas of Xàbia with the most avant-garde percussion of the five continents and the sound experiments from the best percussionists in the world from Australia, Denmark, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Italy, Russia or Taiwan.
Moragues stressed that in 1985, Xàbia pioneered music festivals in l'Estiu and now contemplates four different: 18 years with Xàbia Jazz, 17 by Xàbia Folk, "adding now a festival of the international importance of the Agora of percussion is a luxury for us".
The artistic director of the festival, Juanjo Guillem thanked Xàbia's interest and commitment to music, "because thanks to this we can make this kind of cultural manifestations. It is a festival dedicated to the current percussion, the most avant-garde percussion and with a risky bet.
Guillem said that this year, the percussion music will also move to the port. "There will be several concerts, which will take place in different places, as different as the proposals they are going to present. Along with the Palau d'Esports with percussionists around the public; in the Casa del Cable, more intimate where people can listen to music very close; at the Conservatory of Music; in the Plaza de la Iglesia where the opening ceremony will be held, although that same day in the Riurau there will be a concert with workshops and in the Church of Loreto the premiere of a world play will take place ".
The academic director, Joan Soriano, praised that a municipality like Xàbia supports minority initiatives and the interest is to offer a high quality product for a cosmopolitan audience, "We have the first swords of the world percussion, the pedagogical project that is associated with the festival is expanded in the possibility of working in different composers from all over the world."
For its part, the mayor, José Chulvi, stressed that this festival is important for Xàbia "here we are not looking for mass shows, here we want to differentiate ourselves and be able to offer neighbors a series of performances that are modern contemporary mixes and that help us do different things. "
We propose to Mr. Moragues and Juanjo Guillem to do one of the concerts of AGORA PERCUSIÓN "outdoors" in the Arenal (which is also Xàbia).