Culture and music return this week with the Sueños de Libertad festival. The concerts were presented yesterday in the Plaza del Parque de Vila by Adrian Rodríguez, organizer; Miquel Costa, island director of Culture from the Consell; Pep Tur, councilman of culture of Vila; and Juan Miguel Costa, island director of Tourism, just a few hours before the free concerts began in the same place. It is a festival which they hope that visitors will give their all so that the next one can be “more elaborate”.
Rodríguez hopes that Sueños de Libertad will have a minimum attendance of 1,500 to 2,000 people, although for him the ideal would be to gather about 6,000, because “there are artists who have come that have filled crowds of 15,000 people”. “
Sueños de Libertad begins
Sueños de Libertad began its two days of free concerts of emerging groups yesterday in the Plaza del Parque and will continue today. Yesterday Nabil, Calle Boogaloo and Continuo Showme performed, and today the Ibizan Billy Flamingos, Go Cactus and Hermano Salvaje are scheduled to perform. On Thursday, from 8:30pm at the bastion of Sant Pere de Dalt Vila, will be the official presentation and concert of the Catalan Queralt Lahoz, an offerring between flamenco, copla and hip hop. And the big day of the festival will be Saturday at the commercial dock of the port, with Bomba Estéreo, SFDK, Eliades Ochoa, Nickodemus and Quantic, from 7pm.
Adrian Rodríguez hopes that this year the festival will return stronger than previous years, “but along the way the sponsors have backed out,” he said. The promoter clarified that this is a transitional festival to see if next year they can do something more special depending on the public’s reception, because “there is an economic and production effort that many do not take into account,” he added. In addition, he clarified that this is a transitional year not because it will be the last festival, but in terms of the format in which it has been presented previously. “That people wait until the last moment to decide whether to go is something that makes you worry because you do not know what kind of support it will have,” said Rodríguez, who always encourages residents to support these shows more, as he feels more support from the mainland than from Ibiza.
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