{"id":3787,"date":"2012-09-04T17:06:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/?p=3787"},"modified":"2012-09-04T17:06:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T15:06:50","slug":"two-weekends-of-true-andalusian-culture-at-the-luna-mora-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/whats-on\/two-weekends-of-true-andalusian-culture-at-the-luna-mora-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Luna Mora Festival: Two Weekends of True Andalusian Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"sunsetbeachclub\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/whats-on\/two-weekends-of-true-andalusian-culture-at-the-luna-mora-festival\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3788\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/whats-on\/two-weekends-of-true-andalusian-culture-at-the-luna-mora-festival\/attachment\/luna-mora-de-guaro-2012\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3788\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3788\" title=\"Luna Mora de Guaro 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Luna-Mora-de-Guaro-2012.jpg\" alt=\"Luna Mora de Guaro 2012\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">25.000 candles light up the town...<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once again, the white village of Guaro is ready to welcome visitors from all over the Costa del Sol (and the rest of Spain) for its spectacular Luna Mora Festival. Showcasing the diversity of Andalusian music and culture, this unique festival takes place on the 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 8<sup>th<\/sup>, 14<sup>th<\/sup> and 15<sup>th<\/sup> of September and promises visitors an impressive programme of events including live music, dance, street performers and a large selection of workshops to participate in.<\/p>\n<p>The previous edition of the Festival attracted more than 50,000 visitors, a figure which will undoubtedly continue to grow as word spreads of this beautiful event which is known for the 25.000 candles which light up its streets come nightfall.<\/p>\n<p>The daily programme of events is extensive; we\u2019ve highlighted some of our favourites below:\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A traditional Moorish Market set up throughout the streets of the town.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Drawing with Candles\u2019 workshop.<\/li>\n<li>Children\u2019s workshop, \u2018Ludopuzzle\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Live music in the town squares.<\/li>\n<li>Children\u2019s stories in the \u2018Plaza de los Cuentos\u2019 (Story Tale Square).<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Magicalle\u2019 Street Performers throughout the streets of the town.<\/li>\n<li>Adults percussion workshop.<\/li>\n<li>\u2026 and lots more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For those of you who enjoy watching live music, there are four concerts programmed for the Festival:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li><strong><em>Friday 7th September<\/em><\/strong>: <strong>Clara Montes and Natural Drama<\/strong> \u2013 11pm at the Auditorio dela Luna Mora (Traditional Flamenco music and dance)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Saturday 8th September<\/em><\/strong>: <strong>M\u00e1laga Canta<\/strong> \u2013 Virginia G\u00e1mez, Ana Fargas, Antonia Contreras y Bonela Hijo \u2013 Tradicional Flamenco. The concert will be held at the Auditorio dela Luna Mora at 11pm.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Friday 14th September<\/em><\/strong>: <strong>Argentina<\/strong> \u2013 Young and up-and-coming singer from Huelva singing Flamenco. At 11pm in the Auditorio dela Luna Mora.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Saturday 15th September<\/em><\/strong>: <strong>Manuel Carrasco <\/strong>\u2013 At 11pm in the Auditorio dela Luna Mora.<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you\u2019d like more information about the Luna Mora Festival, please stop by the Leisure Desk at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sunset Beach Club<\/a> or click on this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunamoraguaro.es\/index_en.php\" target=\"_blank\">Luna Mora<\/a><\/span> link.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Once again, the white village of Guaro is ready to welcome visitors from all over the Costa del Sol (and the rest of Spain) for its spectacular Luna Mora Festival. Showcasing the diversity of Andalusian music and culture, this unique festival takes place on the 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th of September and promises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[530,528],"tags":[478,1642,919,1399,627],"class_list":["post-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-costa-del-sol","category-whats-on","tag-culture","tag-festival-de-la-luna-mora","tag-guaro","tag-luna-mora-festival","tag-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3792,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions\/3792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}