BRIGHT CELEBRATION OF THE PARTY OF THE AQUELARRE POETICO

With the Rosalía Castro theater crowded with public, the XLVI Feast of the Poetic Aquelarre, an act of exaltation of Belén Ferreiro López as Meiga Mayor of the HOGUERAS-2016 and of their Meigas de Honor Laura Amigo Barbeito; Lucía Aba González; Carmen Fragoso Gundín; Miranda Barboza Ordóñez; María Gende Piñuelo; Sara Reboredo Fonte; Cristina Gestal López and Ana Souto Páez.

The event was attended by the Director General of Gandería, Belén Do Campo; The General Chief of Staff of the FLO, Manuel Busquier; The Delegate of the Xunta de Galicia in Madrid, José Ramón Onega; The Delegate of Defense in Galicia, Juan Carlos Sancha; The Deputy Autonomous Gonzalo Trenos; As well as several Councilors of the Municipal Groups of the Popular Party and the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, together with other representations of social and cultural Entities of the city.

The event began with a tribute to the immortal figure of D. Miguel de Cervantes, offered by the School of Dance Carmen that staged an original and brilliant choreography. After this performance, the Corals of the CS Sagrada Familia, Coro de Oleiros, Fonte do Souto and Aires Novos de Pravio, performed the pasodoble "Meiga Mayor", the work of the remembered Pirulo Iglesias, concluding the first part of the party.

After the parade of honor of the Meigas, to the sounds of the March of the Ancient Kingdom of Galicia, interpreted by the Band of Gaitas de Sada, different memories were given to collaborators of the HOGUERAS-2016 and, next, Of the San Juan Awards of the present edition to the Port Authority; To the San Rafael Hospital Hemodialysis Unit; The composer and singer Andrés Do Barro, posthumously, who was picked up by his daughter, Andrea, who came expressly from Madrid; The boxer Marta Brañas; To the signature Azafranes Bernardino Sánchez and Nonito Pereira Revuelta.

After the delivery of the San Juan 2016 Awards, the Meiga Mayor, awarded the Gold Cardo, in the modality of collective, to the Voice of Galicia and The Ideal Gallego and Silver, in the same modality, to the COPE Chain.

Next, the President of the Association of Meigas, Mª Concepción Astray, imposed on the Meiga Mayor 2016, Belén Ferreiro, the Silver Thistle, to give way, immediately, to the imposition of the other Silver Thistles of this year that the Meiga Mayor imposed on José Ramón Onega, Delegate of the Xunta in Madrid; Lucía Canabal, Councilor; Miguel Cancio, University professor; Miguel García Santiago, Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers; Eva Iglesias, journalist; Carmen Mª No, Meiga de Honor 1995 and pregonera of the Festival of Poetic Solstice of the present edition, and Lis Teuntor, soprano.

The reading of the Pregón of the HOGUERAS-2016 , which put an end to the act, was read by José Ramón Onega López, Delegate of the Xunta in Madrid who remembered the Galician customs that revolve around the fire and made an excited song to La Coruña and Their wives.

The tribute to La Coruña starring the Child Major, Alba Rodríguez; For the Meigas de Honor and for the Meigas de Honor Infantiles, gave way to the interpretation of the Hymns of Galicia and National and to the parade of honor of the Meigas to the chords of the pasodoble "Meigas and Hogueras", composed as homage to the Meigas Coruñesas by the professor Enrique Melio.

The event was magnificently conducted, with many flashes of humor, by Asunción González, Meiga Mayor 2011, and by Patricia Méndez, Meiga de Honor 2000.

An elegant, emotional and brilliant act that should serve for others to learn that a city like La Coruña deserves dignified and classy acts like this and not gross "trangalladas" to get out of step.

We congratulate the Association of Meigas of the Bonfires of San Juan for the brilliance of this new edition of the Festival of the Poetic Aquelarre for which the municipal government of the tide did not even have the courtesy to give away gratuitously the Rosalía Castro Theater that is of All the Coruñeses, including those who attended them to the Fiesta.

(Photo: Carlos Mª Vallo)