The Madrid band, the Brighton duo, and the percussionist from Gran Canaria star in the soundtrack for the official launch of the festival's eleventh edition in Puerto de la Cruz.
The eleventh edition of the Tenerife Phe Festival 2026 began this Friday in Puerto de la Cruz with an eclectic soundtrack featuring the Madrid band Rufus T. Firefly, the British duo Arxx, and the Gran Canaria formations Xerach and Belice as protagonists. A long-haul day across three stages—Heineken, Deichmann, and a third dedicated to dance music, Ron Guajiro Phe Club—which, until 3:00 a.m., presented concerts with artists who imprint the character of this eleventh edition, the most complete due to the diversity of styles and proposals, and also the most international with artists like New Yorkers Bodega, the British acts Fat Dog and Ibibio Sound Machine—both Friday headliners—and national projects that are trending in their genre such as Barry B and EZEZEZ.
Xerach, in a trio format accompanied by Magali Datzira on guitars and Adriana Puentes on keyboards, opened the round of concerts before an audience that would gradually fill the port venue as evening fell. The Gran Canaria-born artist used the space to present her latest repertoire with pieces such as What I am going to lie, If I am Chavela, you are Frida, What a name, what a face, how rare or You love me, I adore you.
Then came Arxx to show that two people are more than enough to make catchy songs that invite you to party. A fun and fast-paced show offered by singer and guitarist Hanni Pidduck and drummer Clara Townsend, who were thrilled to play in new places and made their love for Tenerife very clear. They raised the tone of Phe Festival with songs like Crying in the carwash, Trouble, Like Hell, Good Boy or Ride or Die with which they closed their performance. After Arxx, it was time to enter the pop and psychedelic universe of Rufus T. Firefly. The Madrid-based band led by Víctor Cabezuelo and Julia Martín-Maestro returned to Phe Festival following their appearance in 2021 and won the crowd over with a brilliant repertoire featuring passages such as Jade Nebula, Blue Thunder, I know where the ducks go when the lake freezes, Blue Thunder, Song of Peace or The beginning of everything.
This first series of concerts would be followed by Gran Canaria's Belice. Locally-sourced indie rock seams, finalists of the Sonora 2026 contest just like Xerach, who performed songs from their recent harvest such as Perfect manifest, Moon for Mars, I promise not to leave you alone or Let the world dance.
In addition to the live band stages, the programming of the electronic stage, Ron Guajiro Phe Club, set the pace from the opening with the Sun Dance Family session proposal for a family audience with Dita Konnat and Claudia Bliss, accompanied by movement artists Koset Quintana and Yaiza Martinon, and the sessions by Jjust Beca & Candela, Isla Sonido, Mostany, Roman Flügel, and Phil Hartnoll (Orbital) dj set.
Phe Team takes on the executive production of this Tenerife Phe Festival, an event promoted by the Culture Department of the City Council of Puerto de la Cruz, with sponsorship from the Government of the Canary Islands through the Canarian Institute of Cultural Development, Turismo Islas Canarias, Turismo de Tenerife, and the Cabildo of Tenerife; as well as other private sponsors such as the CajaCanarias Foundation, Heineken, Deichmann, Pepsi, Ron Guajiro, Torres Canarias, Mas Que Motos Tenerife, and Skoda.