«Music, fire and gunpowder and street theater»: the Fira i Festes de Pego arrives with news and historical recovery «Music, fire and gunpowder and street theater»: the Fira i Festes de Pego arrives with news and historical recovery
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«Music, fire and gunpowder and street theater»: the Fira i Festes de Pego arrives with news and historical recovery

03 June 2022 - 12: 15

Pego is getting closer to reliving his Fair and Festivities that unites the patron saint festivities with the popular Moors and Christians. Something that causes long celebrations for three consecutive weekends. The mayor and party councilor of the municipality, Enrique Moll, has pointed out that these long-awaited celebrations will be clearly marked by "music, fire and gunpowder and street theater."

opening acts

To whet your appetite, the municipality will carry out the Festive Publication this June 4, an act of the MMiCC that will reveal the image and posters for the party. For this, the different filaes They will meet in the Plaça de l'Ajuntament where each one will make a small exhibition of their squads and the proclamation will be given.

Later, on Friday, June 17, the group Smoking Souls will offer a photographic exhibition to commemorate its 10-year musical career. The band's image gallery will be at the Casa de Cultura at 19:00 p.m. Pegolino artists will have the opportunity to do a record signing and hold a small acoustic concert in the courtyard of the same building.

Festivities

Starting on Saturday, June 18, the town will begin its festivities after the break due to the COVID pandemic. This same day there will be a Trobada de la Muixeranga de la Marina and the Castellers de l'Alt Maresme i la Selva de Mar. In the evening, rock will return to Pego with concerts by Smoking Souls, Kela, Boikot and Dj Cate.

The following days will arrive with the day of Sant Cristófol, with a parade of vehicles through the main streets of the municipality, the Corpus Christi procession and a day dedicated to sports and theater for the children of Pego.

Some MMiCC full of novelties

As of June 23, the Moors and Christians will be in charge of continuing the festivities. This year they will return to give continuity to the plan to open the party to all the residents of the town despite not being part of any row officially.

On the first day of the festivities, the event will take place, inspired by historical documentation from the XNUMXth century Pegolí Archive, called "La vespra de la festa". In it, four different bands will come out at the same time from different parts of the municipality to fill all the streets with music until they meet at Pla de la Font.

After that, the traditional tear off where anyone who wants to can participate. When night came, the popular Captains Ball This year it will be without captains, but it will be held in the same way assumed by the Board.

For its part, the Moors and Christians Entrance on Saturday 25 will be the only major parade, in which the Board has worked to surprise attendees with elements that will separate both sides.

historical recovery

Núria Gómez, president of the Central Board of Moors and Christians of Pego, announced that the project started before the health crisis for the historical recovery of acts based on the documentation of the Pegolí Municipal Archive will see the light of day this year. As a novelty, she anticipated, the Jove Entrance that welcomes all the boys and girls of the schools of the municipality will take place on Sunday 26.

To open this Jove Entrance, the Board has provided all the means accumulated in two years to create 4 Giants of the Vila and 120 costumes of historical special squads based on said documentation from the XNUMXth century. In these documents it is revealed that in the Fira and Festes de Pego a series of troupes paraded to announce the beginning of the festivities, something that has inspired the creation of the clothing for the Entrance.

Another novelty introduced this year is that all the you enter of MMiCC will run along the same route and at the same time, at 19:00 p.m. "We intend to concentrate all efforts on this defined route so that it is well decorated and prepared to enjoy the you enter", added the president of the Board.

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