Next Saturday, October 1, Gata will bring together 20 music bands from the region at the Marina Alta Band Encounter, one of the events to commemorate the 150th birthday of the Gata Union Musical Band.
The Musical Union of Gata de Gorgos was born in 1870, when the city council of that time hired the musician from La Safor, Ricardo González Blasco, with the aim of instructing and training the town's fans to have a Municipal Band that would entertain the acts official, popular and religious that were produced in the town. In 2020 the band celebrated its 150th birthday.
Logically, all the events that were scheduled to commemorate the event had to be postponed due to the pandemic. However, as restrictions have been loosened, most of them have been held, for example: the concert held at the Auditorium of the Diputación de Alicante and the naming of a town street in the name of the Banda .
This Saturday, October 1, the central act of the birthday celebrations will finally be held, which will consist of a meeting of Bands of the Marina Alta organized by the FSMCV, the Gata City Council and the Musical Society itself. The meeting will begin at 18:30 p.m. with a parade of the 20 participating bands through different streets of the town to Avenida de la Pau where they will all perform the pasodoble “Unión Musical de Gata”, a piece by composer Josep Miquel Martínez Jiménez, who It was the winner in the contest organized by the Band within the commemorative events.
For the Musical Union of Gata it is an event of great importance and that is why they invite the whole town to accompany, on Saturday October 1st starting at 18,30:XNUMX p.m., all the bands at some point along the route, and the neighbors and neighbors of the streets where they will go to decorate their facades with quilts and plants to give the act more color.
