this Rocanrola Festival, which sold 20 thousand tickets for two days, It is currently the largest music event held in the city of Alicante and one of the most important national rap music events. The staff includes Natos and top artists such as Waor and Kase. He, SFDK, Ayax and Prok, FernandoCosta, Nach, Juancho Marqués and Kaze.
Focusing mainly on a young audience, the festival kicked off at Rabasa Multispace on Friday afternoon. It has three stages, a large restaurant area with vegan food, recreational areas, VIP area with privileged visibility and a campsite for 4,000 people. It is organized by the company Music Productions 2021, directed by Enric Pellicer.
Organization accounts Economic impact of more than six million euros and almost 100% hotel occupancy in the city of Alicante. In fact, they are already closing the next edition. «This first festival was the result of the efforts of a great team that managed to overcome a two-year suspension at an event born in 2019, and three years later it finally became a reality. We have to thank the people for their confidence in sticking with this event, and the artists who planned their tours, by framing a poster where the biggest rap artists led us to sell 20,000 subscriptions,” says rock member Lalo Díez and the roll organization
“It seems obvious that we need to rethink artistic challenges to raise an insurmountable barand above all, governments need to understand that this festival is permanent, it covers a genre with a different audience target because it needs public support to maintain this level of activity to compete with other cities or provinces. ”, adds Díez. The Rocanrola Festival has the cooperation of the Alicante City & Beach Tourist Board.
The year 2022 once again brought record numbers to the festival industry in Spain and In 2019, it will surpass what was considered a moment of victoryWhen more than 800 festivals are held on national territory.
From the early morning, the Rabasa campus stretched almost to the ring road and street to the University for the event. He started to take hundreds of young people in tents to spend two days in the camp.. Around 17:00 the influx was growing and the first traffic eclipses began to be noticed on the nearby roads.
“I think rap is a popular revolt that reaches the majority of the public as we see it today.» noted the Spanish freestyler Errecé, one of the largest representatives of this style in Spain, characterized by his great flow and almost one of the first rappers. One of the virtues of Rocanrola is that it is the combination of the two greatest scenes; this allows, as Kaze points out, to start another performance at the end of one performance at the next, without the performers having to overlap. early hours of the morning. “I’m going to do an incredible concert for myself,” she said hours before leaving the stage.