{"id":29983,"date":"2026-09-07T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/unas-7000-personas-cantan-y-bailan-con-rafaga-en-las-fiestas-de-antigua-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T23:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:05:27","slug":"around-7000-people-sing-and-dance-with-rafaga-at-antiguas-2026-fiestas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/around-7000-people-sing-and-dance-with-rafaga-at-antiguas-2026-fiestas\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 7,000 people sing and dance with R\u00e1faga at Antigua&#8217;s 2026 fiestas"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Mayor Juan Cabrera announces that the fairground was packed throughout the concerts, while the councillor for Festivities, Lucila Ruiz, adds that all of the weekend&#8217;s events were a resounding success.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The concert by Argentine cumbia band R\u00e1faga at the 2026 fiestas of Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de La Antigua was a resounding success, with around 7,000 people singing and dancing in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento last Saturday. It followed the eagerly awaited Mecamela tribute concert, which set the stage for a great night of celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Juan Cabrera said Antigua was packed with crowds, with a cheerful, family-friendly, calm and orderly festive atmosphere and no incidents. He also thanked the Antigua Town Council&#8217;s Festivities department and the Fiestas Committee for their hard work in ensuring everything went perfectly, along with all the collaborating businesses.<\/p>\n<p>For her part, the councillor for Festivities, Lucila Ruiz, said R\u00e1faga did not disappoint and gave it their all, performing a live concert lasting almost two hours to bring a fitting close to their international tour &#8216;Camino del 30 Aniversario&#8217; in Antigua (Fuerteventura). It was an unforgettable show featuring their biggest hits, including Luna, B\u00e9same, Maldito Coraz\u00f3n and Mentirosa.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Mecamela tribute act drew large numbers of the duo&#8217;s fans, who sang along to their best-known songs from a long musical career. The night continued with a verbena street party, featuring the bands Kandela and Mec\u00e1nica By Tamarindos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Juan Cabrera announces that the fairground was packed throughout the concerts, while the councillor for Festivities, Lucila Ruiz, adds that all of the weekend&#8217;s events were a resounding success. The concert by Argentine cumbia band R\u00e1faga at the 2026 fiestas of Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de La Antigua was a resounding success, with around 7,000 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,281],"tags":[82,190],"class_list":["post-29983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antigua","category-antigua-en","tag-fuerteventura","tag-fuerteventura-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/015-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29987,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29983\/revisions\/29987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}