Date Published: 22/05/2015

ARCHIVED - What’s on round-up 23rd and 24th May

Free world music at Murcia Tres Culturas, interesting Geological walk in Calblanque and not a lot else

This week it’s more a case of what’s not on rather than what’s on as the region grinds to a virtual halt for the ARCHIVED - What’s on round-up 23rd and 24th May elections on Sunday.

Saturday is the period of quiet public reflection before the voting on Sunday, so events this weekend are extremely thin on the ground.

The main musical event is Murcia Tres Culturas which concludes this weekend in Murcia with a mixed programme of free open-air concerts. The guest nation this year is Poland and although none of the acts are names most readers will be familiar with is worth trying: we actually went along to the opening night thinking it wouldn´t be our cup of tea and as we were in Murcia for something else we could stay for 10 minutes and then go, but thoroughly enjoyed it, in fact, it was far better than the concert we’d gone in to see earlier in the evening .

On Friday night it’s all Polish artists but on Saturday night there’s a Bollywood spectacular at 10pm which sounds very interesting as well as Tuareg rock, the Mehmet Polat trio in the atmospheric setting of the Veronicas wall which is part of the old Moorish fortifications which once surrounded the city, mixing traditional instruments from the Balkans, Anatolia and Africa ( just you tubed it and very pleasant) as well as rap and ARCHIVED - What’s on round-up 23rd and 24th May hip-hop. All free.

There’s also an interesting concert on Sunday evening at the Murcia Auditorio performing The Little Match Girl by David Lang, a choral piece which won the Pulitzer Prize and premiered at Carnegie Hall, based on Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Tickets are only 5 euros.

Geological walk Calblanque
On Saturday there’s an interesting Geological walk through the Calblanque regional park, which is only 2.5 km long( although that’s one way and you have to get back, so make that 5km!). It points out some of the most interesting geological features of the regional park en-route and is free of charge.

Also on Saturday artist Pedro Cano is offering a free water colour painting activity in Blanca alongside the River Segura during the morning. Last week we visited the Fundación Pedro Cano alongside the river during the Blanca night of the museums event and were hugely impressed by the building and the artwork inside it. Not only work by this amazing artist himself but also the exhibition containing winning artists of the 15th University of Murcia competition which is really dynamic.

On Sunday Águilas is still running its route of the railways guided tour of the railway heritage of Águilas. It’s a ARCHIVED - What’s on round-up 23rd and 24th May really interesting morning out and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves when we went on the inaugural tour in order to write about it.

Alhama de Murcia is also offering a guided tour of its castle on Sunday, which again, is an interesting and enjoyable visit, although it’s a steep walk uphill for that one.

Alcantarilla is holding an artisan market on Sunday, make the most of it, as most of the other regular artisan markets have now finished for the summer months and even Cehegín cancelled their regular 4th weekend market due to the elections.

But the end of the artisan market season signals the start of summer, which also means that this weekend the waterpark at Terra Natura in Murcia opens for the summer season. The buy one ticket and go back as often as you want to until the end of June offer is still valid, so if you have lively offspring this could be a ARCHIVED - What’s on round-up 23rd and 24th May worthwhile investment for the month to come.

Normal service resumes next week with plenty of forthcoming activities already written up in date order in the what’s on section.

Weekly news bulletin goes out tomorrow.

Restaurants, Sporting events and how to find more info

There are still 101 events in the What’s on section at the moment, and well probably find a few more, so just click on the What’s on section and scroll down, clicking through to the next page to see more events. All events are listed in date order and you can search by type of event or area and we also split off sporting activities in a separate sporting and leisure section. We are constantly adding new events, so if you want to check on just one day, use the Events diary function in the header bar which helps you search by day.

Youll so find lots of static information about where to go in the Where to go section at the top of every page or local information in the local town sections which are shown by area in the map box at the bottom of every page, just click on the town name.

We also have plenty of restaurants on offer, so select the restaurants listing, again in the top header bar.

Have a great weekend and remember, if you like what you see, pass it on or share it on your facebook.

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