Pop music will return, for the 24th consecutive year, to flood the Murcia Fair.
The Lemon Pop festival will take place from September 5 to 14 offering four nights of totally free music and only one day with paid admission where international, national and local groups can be enjoyed.
The spaces where the concerts will take place will be the REM Hall, the Fofó Park Auditorium and the Molinos del Río Space.
This new edition of the festival will be led by groups such as Airbag, one of the most important in Spanish power pop in recent decades;
Tachenko, a group from Zaragoza that will present their eighth album chosen as the best album of the year at the Aragonese Music Awards;
Vancouvers, one of the fundamental bands in the emergence of alternative music in our country;
o Los Estanques, one of the most important bands to take into account in the new batch of national pop.
The international side of the festival will feature the Chilean Soledad Vélez, who will bring her pop loaded with electronics, darkness and melancholy;
and the Scots The Primary 5, band formed by Paul Quinn who was the drummer of the Teenage Fanclub group.
Murcia groups will again be great protagonists with Ross, Alexanderplatz or Incredibles Ful as well as the new talents of Ángel Calvo, Mala Cotton, Marcelo Criminal, Higinio or The Bueno.
September 14 will be the only payday of the festival and will feature performances by Carlos Sadness and Elyella, two of the most followed proposals of the national indie.
Amatria and DJs Lillo and Vincent Valera will close the night.
Tickets are on sale at Compralaentrada.com and are priced at € 22.
There will also be several After Lemon days in REM Room with the DJs Kutxu, Suzukid, Lillo, Juan Salas, Cristian Set Roc and Maadraassoo.
The Councilor for Culture and Heritage Recovery, Jesús Pacheco, has indicated that "Lemon Pop is one of the most beloved festivals in Murcia and also one of the longest-lived in the entire national scene so we will continue supporting it since it is already a unavoidable appointment of the program of the Fair of Murcia ".
For its 24 editions, groups such as Los Planetas, Tender Trap, The Wedding Present, Australian Blonde, The Sunday Drivers, TV Smith, Fangoria, Nacha Pop, The Darling Buds, The Secrets, Vetusta Morla, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart , Helen Love, Fanfarlo, The Primitives, or The School, and others like Lori Meyers and Sidonie when they were still emerging bands.
He has also seen grow local bands like Second, Neuman or Dog that are currently among the most prominent in the national circuit.
The complete program of this edition of the festival, organized by Silbato Producciones and with the support of the Department of Culture and Recovery of Heritage and Estrella de Levante, is as follows
Thursday, September 5
Molinos del Río Space |
20:00 hours |
Free entrance
Party Presentation with Los Estanques and Ronnie Las Dunas & El Combo de Arena
Friday, September 6
REM room |
22.00 hours |
Free entrance
Alexanderplatz, Incredibles Ful, Ross and The Good
After Lemon: Juan Salas
Saturday, September 7
REM room |
22.00 hours |
Free entrance
Tachenko, Higinio and Ángel Calvo & Long Distance Trains
After Lemon: Kutxu, Suzukid and Lillo
Friday, September 13
Fofó Park Auditorium |
18.30 hours |
Free entrance
Airbag, El Palacio de Linares, Marcelo Criminal, Primary 5, Soledad Vélez and Vancouvers
After Lemon: Cristian Set Roc
Saturday September 14
Fofó Park Auditorium |
20.00 hours |
€ 22 ticket
Carlos Sadness, Elyella, Amatria, Vincent Valera and Lillo
After Lemon: Maadraassoo
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia