The best of national indie music arrives in Puerto de la Cruz with the Phe Festival

The best of national indie music arrives in Puerto de la Cruz with the Phe Festival

A concert indie with the participation of some of the most important national bands on the current scene. This is how it looks this year Phe Festival, with an eye on the 2017 edition to hold a large-scale event, a new music festival that will make available to the public a program of fresh, unique and original artistic and social actions, designed to be enjoyed in Puerto de la Cruz , and which includes a training and informative meeting, dedicated to cultural management and its implications for tourism entitled Power Changers 2.

Phe Festival is part of the planning project conceived in the Cultural Strategy of Puerto de la Cruz 2020, which also includes projects of the stature of festivals such as journey, Mueca, port street art or Canary Jazz Festival and in which the public institution, City Council, seeks to generate alliances and complicity to promote the feeling of co-responsibility for a common project together with various entities, creators, citizen groups and private companies. The Phe-Festival Thus, it becomes another of the great bets promoted by the culture area of the Porto City Council, from an integrating and participatory principle and a defined commitment to quality that also affects the promotion of Cultural Tourism. Sandra Rodríguez, Councilor for Finance and Culture of the northern consistory, maintains that "with this new commitment, our city achieves a continuous line of commitment to culture, generating both artistic, economic and social wealth." Phe has the support of Puerto de la Cruz Urban Rehabilitation Consortium, Council of Tenerife in its areas of Culture and Tourism and the Canary Islands Government.

In this 2016 edition, as a preview of what will be the first big event of next year, the festival will count for its appointment on August 6, with the groups Cycle, the red room, Of faith, Belako, Red Beard and Kostrok, a firm commitment to groups that are a reference in the independent national sphere and electronics with international claim. Among its programmatic lines is also granting an important role to Canarian musical production.

Phe, designed for the enjoyment of a wide spectrum of the public, is a festival that wants to grow in the north of Tenerife from the consideration of the city of Cross port as an international benchmark for tourism and a pioneer in Spain of a socioeconomic model that is constantly being updated. The stage will be located in a closed area on the esplanade of the port, next to the sea, with the philosophy of promoting human, artistic and musical diversity and that attendees find in it a leisure alternative to spend a good weekend.

Cycle, one of the best bands of recent times, returns to the Tenerife stages as one of the main claims of Phe Festival. They do so after celebrating their tenth anniversary with 'Dance all Over', their fourth album, rock danceable with electronic punch, basses and synths from David Kano, the provocative voice of La China and the exciting voice of Luke Donovan, a mixture of rage, tenderness and sadism. Together with them, the Valencian band the red room headlines this presentation concert for Phe, on the presentation tour of his tenth studio album 'Sagrado Corazón', with which they have sneaked into the top of the bills of independent music festivals.

Also with a new LP, 'Hamen', they arrive from the Basque Country Belako, group of rock, post punk and electronic music considered by critics to be one of the most promising on the national independent scene. And from rock more vital to electronics more indie from Kostrok, the Valencian DJ duo made up of Adrián Lurbe and José Martí who triumphed on the dance floor last summer with Right Now.

The latest addition to the PHE lineup is Of faith, or what amounts to the same thing, Oscar D'Aniello, now on his own after finishing his stage with the Flores Azules, who has just presented his new album 'La Fuerza Irresistible'. A repertoire of vital songs with a style that mixes pop, hip hop, soul, funky, disco, and that bring a positive and carefree character to this concert Phe Festival who wants to be a festive referent in the concert calendar of the Archipelago.

Good news: Phe will be in Mueca

This is a non-stop. Less than 90 days left for the 00 edition of Phe Festival and we continue determined to shout to the four winds what we have prepared: a unique weekend in Cross port with concerts, bathing on the coast and great experiences of urban leisure and gastronomy. That is why we join the programming of the Grimace Festival 2016 to make the festival presentation on the street... and some surprises.

Yes, as you read. We will be at your disposal in a physical space that will be located on the esplanade of the Customs House, in the Fishing Pier, where you will find first-hand all the information about the festival and where your opinion and participation will be the protagonists. We know that there is a lot of desire to #phefestival, that's why we want to share it with you.

Can you ask for more? Well yes. Anyone who comes to our happy stand, will take a Discount coupon with which to obtain tickets at a reduced price when buying online.

If you plan to be one of the thousands of people who attend the International Street Art Festival in Puerto de la Cruz, be sure to visit us. We will be the friday may 13 from 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. and the saturday 14 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. It will be a great opportunity to join the experience Phe Festival.

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Music, trends, cinema, gastronomy... we are expanding the program and poster!

Phe Festival will celebrate a new edition in Cross port the second week of August with a proposal that brings together music, cinema, trends, gastronomy and innovation in the same space to enjoy a perfect vacation plan. A unique experience to share, which will be crowned with two days of concerts, on Friday the 11th and Saturday the 12th, where the sounds of well-known international, national and local artists will come together with others that it will be a pleasure to discover.

Miss Caffeine, yall, Bizarre Love Triangle, Em DJ, Belop, Papaya, The Vinegars and The Good Company they join WAS, Siloam and The Taxman, previously confirmed,  for a poster still open to new additions. The fertilizer for the two days of direct they are already on sale on the official website www.phefestival.comas well as on platforms Ticketea.com and Tickety.es, at the price of 30 euros. Once the latest confirmations are announced in April, single tickets will go on sale for each day.

Although initially it was considered to keep the celebration during the first week of August, as in the first edition, the organization made the decision to change the date, motivated by adjustments to the availability of artists and a better use of leisure and tourism resources in the city. In this way, it has been possible to complete a poster at the height of what the organizers and, surely also, the public of Phe Festival, wish.

The esplanade of the pier of Puerto de la Cruz remains the main venue for the festival, which wants to go beyond the musical offer, to offer a new concept of entertainment experience, with the current values of a more creative and participatory society. It is aimed at young people regardless of their age, who want to enjoy life, are committed and active.

Phe Market It will be one of the novelties this year of the festival. A trend fair outdoors, by the sea and daytime, focused on fashion, design or technology, which will have a restaurant area, stage, performances and innovative proposals so that they can be enjoyed by all audiences.

A few days of reflection and shared knowledge (Ph I+C), a cinema meeting (Phe Films) concerts, activities and city tours (Phe Arounds) complete the program of this event that reinforces the cultural offer of the north of Tenerife from its commitment to the environment.

After the notoriety achieved in the 2016 presentation edition, the festival returns in 2017 as one of the great proposals promoted from the area of Culture of the City Council of Puerto de la Cruz with the support of Turismo de Tenerife, a firm commitment to quality and the promotion of cultural tourism.

Phe Festival is framed in Cultural Strategy of Puerto de la Cruz 2020, which also includes projects of the stature of festivals such as journey, Mueca, Agatha Christie Festival, port street art, Bach Festival of Early and Baroque Music or Canary Jazz Festival and in which the public institution, City Council, seeks to generate alliances and complicity to promote the feeling of co-responsibility for a common project together with various entities, creators, citizen groups and private companies.

Do you want to feel like a star? Find us at Mueca!

What Mueca It is one of the essential and unmissable events in the cultural calendar. It is not fictitious, it is real. His 15 years of life elevate him to the category of big stage. Its offer of street theater, dance, music, circus or plastic arts is a reflection of the varied and plural offer that tens of thousands of attendees enjoy each year. It is a festival with capital letters thanks to the variety of local, national and international shows that make up its program.

If the International Street Art Festival has such a wide offer, it is because Cross port It has everything and for everyone. AND Phe Festival will also be! We love Mueca and have the opportunity to live it from within and share it with your audience it is a fantastic experience.

We like to keep the good traditions and, as we did last year (remember our happy stand?), we join the Mueca program to make our particular festival presentation.

Do you know that your thing is to sing? Do you feel like a rock star in the shower? We trust like nobody else in your vocal technique, in that you play the guitar like Jimi Hendrix and we know that you can become our next headliner. Success is yours!

Look for us on the esplanade of the Casa de la Aduana, in the Fishing Pier, where you will learn first-hand all the information about Ph 2017 and where your opinion and participation will be fundamental. There you will find our fun photocall in which you will feel like a true artist between lights, applause and cheers!

We will be the Friday May 12 and Saturday May 13, accompanied by the Mueca playlist, with more than 150 songs, 10 hours of the best music as an appetizer of the greats live that we will enjoy on August 11 and 12 on the dock esplanade.

In addition, as we know that there is a great desire to Phe Festival, we will also install a point of sale for the subscription for the two days of live concerts at a launch price of 30 euros. What are you waiting for to go there?

If we know one thing for sure, it is that living and enjoying Mueca multiplies the Phe 2017 experience. See you in Mueca!

Presentation of Phe 2017 at The House by Heineken with The Good Company and The Taxman

Less than a month to Ph 2017, the desire is getting bigger and bigger, that's why we want to get ahead with two phenomenal presentation parties and thus prepare ourselves for the explosive experience that we will live in August. Put it on the agenda!

The Good Company and The Taxman will be the stars of the event Phe Festival and The House By Heineken, which arrive at the two offices opened by Insular Canarias de Bebidas (Incabe) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife the next Thursday 20 and Friday 21 July, respectively. You already have a plan for next week!

It will be a great opportunity to enjoy a preview of the songs that will be played on the stage of the esplanade of the quay of Cross port the days August 11 and 12. The Taxman will exhibit in Tenerife the rhythm that permeates their songs from beginning to end, eclectic, but always with rock as their flag. While in Gran Canaria it will be The Good Company who will provide the soundtrack for the 'coming out' of Ph 2017.

The direct ones will be mixed with a small presentation to the curious and interested of what will be the second edition of Phe Festival: an inspired cocktail that combines music, fashion, cinema, trends, gastronomy and innovation, a perfect vacation plan that extends through the tourist city during the second week of August. Where we can talk in detail about the proposal Phe Market with more than 50 exhibitors, or Ph I+C with a program dedicated to projects that transform the environment and also people.

All this wrapped in the atmosphere of the two centuries-old palaces of The House By Heineken, where we can share and exchange ideas and impressions in a closer way.

As if that were not enough, the performance of the bands will not come alone. Phe Team DJ Set will liven up the night with a fresh and very special session.

You sign up? You just have to ask for the invitation at info@hkthehouse.es to go to Las Palmas and through WhatsApp 663 289 820 / 636 396 508 if you want to go to Santa Cruz.

The Phe Market trends fair completes the Phe Festival program with more than 65 brands

Music, fashion, cinema, gastronomy and innovation are the pillars on which this experience is based, which will be held in Puerto de la Cruz from August 8 to 12

The second edition of Phe Festival, which takes place from August 8 to 12, consolidates Cross port as a benchmark of cultural offer in the Canary Islands with an inspired cocktail that combines music, cinema, trends, gastronomy and innovation for all audiences. Among the novelties that it adds to its programming, the trends fair stands out Phe Market, which will house the proposals of 65 brands, 25 of them from the Emprende Moda island program, in addition to one restaurant area, children's area, workshops and current proposals. A whole display of fashion, art, culture, design and new technologies.

Today it was officially presented to the media with the presence of Sandra Rodríguez, Councilor for Finance and Culture of Puerto de la Cruz; Efraín Medina, Vice President of the Cabildo de Tenerife, José Luis Rivero, Insular Director of Culture of the Cabildo de Tenerife; Sergio Eiroa, general director of Youth of the Government of the Canary Islands; and Carlos Ulises Salazar, artistic director of the Festival.

In her speech, Sandra Rodríguez stated that “Phe Festival fits perfectly into our strategy of promoting tourism with something more than the offer of sun and beach; we want to recover our cultural identity and that quotes like this become a hallmark of identity”. José Luis Rivero expressed himself in a similar way, who also added that “Puerto de la Cruz is a unique model in the Canary Islands of how culture is related to its territory and its people”.

Meanwhile, Efraín Medina and Sergio Eiroa agreed in their analyzes that their respective institutions support and fly exhibitions such as the Phe Festival in which new trends, commitment to change and innovation are fundamental pillars.

After the success of its first edition, Phe Festival returns with a broader and more complete offer. Five days with numerous options for all audiences that are encompassed under these six legends: Phe Music, Phe Market, Phe Films, Phe I+C, Phe Arounds and Phe Sports.

Categories that constitute the pillars of a festival that revolves around the idea of a perfect vacation plan, in a privileged location and star of tourism in the Islands such as Puerto de la Cruz.

This second edition broadens its commitment to music with two days, Friday 11 and  Saturday August 12, in a renclosure located on the esplanade of the pier. Miss Caffeina, Javiera Mena, Yall, León Benavente, Bejo & Dj Pimp, Triángulo de Amor Bizarro, WAS, Belöp, Eme DJ, Siloé, Los Vinagres, Papaya, The Good Company The Taxman, We Are Trash and DJ Full FX –who was present with their music at the informative act – they will be the bands and artists of a poster designed for a heterogeneous public, eager to discover fresh and unique proposals to enjoy them collectively.

Outdoor trend fair

Phe Festival's commitment to the cultural offer in the north of Tenerife is extended and encompasses much more than music. In addition to integrating diverse artists and musical genres in the same space, it is adorned with Phe Market, which can be enjoyed throughout the festival, for free on Thursday, August 10, and integrated into the concert venue on Friday 11 and Saturday 12. An area where the latest trends in design, fashion and art will meet, with a total of 65 brands, and the outstanding presence of the program Undertake Fashion of the Cabildo de Tenerife, which participates with 25 signatures.

An interesting and varied gastronomic selection will stop at the festival site to offer culinary creations full of imagination and quality. La Dulzoneta, Café Caramba, Raíces Food Truck, as well as a specific seafood stand courtesy of Pescadería Marisquería Puerto, Canary Wine, Dolcezza Helados Artesanales, Food Truck Frida, Creperie Le Monde, Con limon y sal Food Truck, Phe Food Stand and La sweets make up the careful selection of cuisine and drinks for all tastes in the restaurant area.

Phe Market also incorporates picnic area and rest islands to enjoy the festival. Also a children's area, where they have been organized  cooking, makeup, recycling and sustainability workshops. In the enclosure there will also be installed a skateboard ramp of free use where contests and challenges have been organized at different times for skaters of all ages.

Bet on culture

Phe 2017 opens on August 8 and 9 with a meeting open to reflection and knowledge with conferences that, under the name Ph I+C, will lead to Castle Cultural Space conferences, workshops and different activities to analyze and discuss culture, tourism and innovation in a relaxed key, as well as in 'shorts and cholas'.

In their inaugural activity they will have the interventions of Pau Llacuna i Ortiz, former director of Fira Tárrega, international performing arts market, and Veronica Werckmeister of IMVG (Vitoria Gasteiz Mural Route) to talk about Cultural projects that transform the environment. The practical side of the meeting will be on Wednesday 9 with workshops on Innovative insights that transform people: mapping, robotics, fab lab, digital music, social urban planning... which end with a series of short talks under the title Phe Kucha.

The most creative aspect of the festival is oriented towards cinema and audiovisual production. Phe Films is a call with digital DNA aimed at teams interested in spending a few days of intensive filming for the creation of a piece in Puerto de la Cruz during the second week of August, coinciding with the dates of Phe Festival. The winner will receive a prize of 600 euros. The work most voted by the public through the web will be awarded 300 euros. The participants also opt for a national and international distribution campaign that will be carried out in collaboration with the distribution company Digital 104.

The subscription for the two days of concerts (40 euros), as well as individual tickets for each of the days (22 euros), can be purchased at the online store on the official website www.phefestival.com, as well as at Ticketea. com and Tickety.es. Students can purchase passes at the price of 30 euros. From Monday the 7th, a box office will be installed on the esplanade of the wharf where you can buy tickets and advance tickets at this price. The festival also has more than 30 physical points of sale distributed in the north, south and metropolitan area of Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and La Gomera.

In addition, given the forecasts of tourist occupation in the city and with the intention of diversifying the accommodation options, this year's edition incorporates the possibility of camping, which will be installed in the Manolo Santaella Sports Center and will open its stalls from the 9th to the 13th of August and whose places, at the price of €5 per person and night, can be reserved in the festival's online store.

This new edition has been promoted by the Department of Culture of the Puerto de la Cruz City Council, with the support of Turismo de Tenerife and the Urban Rehabilitation Consortium, the Insular Department of Employment, Commerce, Industry and Socioeconomic Development, the Directorate Island of Culture, Education and Artistic Units, the General Directorate of Youth of the Government of the Canary Islands and the CajaCanarias Foundation. Phe Festival is framed within the Cultural Strategy of Puerto de la Cruz 2020, which also includes projects of the stature of festivals such as Periplo, Mueca, Ágatha Christie Festival, Puerto Street Art, Bach Festival, Early and Baroque Music Festival or Jazz Festival from the Canary Islands

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