Program of Vilagarcía de Arousa Water Festival

On 16th August, the Water Festival is held in Vilagarcía de Arousa, a celebration declared of National Tourist Interest in which you have to get wet and wet everyone within reach.

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News 2022

As a novelty, in view of the severe drought that Spain is suffering this year 2022, 'the hoses will be replaced by buckets'. In this way, the festival is returning to its origins and opting for a solution 'with a more responsible consumption', as the mayoress explained.

Festive Program of the Water Festival 2022

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SATURDAY AUGUST 13

12:30 - City streets
Parades
Rio Ulla Brisas Bagpipe Group

20:30 - City streets
Parades
Cantareiras Bulideiras Cultural Association of Fontecarmoa

21:00 - Second Republic Square
Festaclown Special Advance:
Banda de Musica de Vilagarcia e Desconcerto Our protagonists arrive late to the recital. With the orchestra about to start and the audience ready to
enjoy, they are forced to improvise to get out of the situation. From this crazy starting point, the show moves forward and the planned program is executed with the occasional comical hitch.
Type of show: comic-musical. Duration: 60 min. Aimed at: family audience.

21:30 - Xunqueira Park
Concert:
The Engines
After more than 30 years of racing, with Carlos Del Rio at the head, Motores decides to end his career. And he does it with a national tour presenting "30 immortal arias".
"lnmortal", "Jarra vacia", "Siempre dices no" and "Jaque mate" are some of the songs that make up this album, with the drummer Carlos Rivas taking center stage in this last one. A farewell tour that was full of surprises.

22:30 - Field of the Sobradelo Party

Cinema on the Street
Asterix. The secret of the magic potion
After suffering a fall collecting mistletoe, Panoramix decides that he has reached the hara to ensure the future of the town. Accompanied by the pair Asterix and 0belix, he undertakes the search for a talented druid to pass on to him
the secret of the magic potion.
Genre: animation, adventure, comedy. Duration: 86 min. Audience: family

23:00 - Xunqueira Park
Concert:
Baron Rojo - The Last Flight

SUNDAY AUGUST 14

11:00 - San Roque neighborhood and city streets
Pasacalles San Roquilio O Pequeno
Group of Bagpipes Our Lady of Junqueira

20:30 - City streets
Parades
Bagpipe group Os Xirifeiros
 
23:00 - Xunqueira Park
Concert:
Baron Rojo - The Last Flight

MONDAY AUGUST 15

10:00 - San Roque neighborhood
Pasacalles San Roquilio The Small Group of Bagpipes The Terribles of Arousa

12:30 - San Roque neighborhood
San Roquino Procession
Accompanied by the Banda de Musica and Os Terribles de Arousa. At the end there will be distribution of viiiio and empanada.

12:30 - City streets
Parades
Mocedade da Torre Bagpipe Group

20:30 - City streets
Parades
Os Trasnos de Guillan Bagpipe Group

20:30 - Xunqueira Park
Uxia Lambona and the Molona Band
 
22:30 - San Roque neighborhood
Popular Verbena Los Tres Latinos

23:00 - Xunqueira Park
Concert:
Joel Padin
The new promise of Galician folk music. His beginnings in traditional music go back to 2011, where he started singing and playing the tambourine in an association of his town (Mar de Arousa).

In 2018, he appeared in the TVG competition, Pequenos Fenómenos, in which he came first, singing traditional music. In 2021 "Aughas Mortas" was published, his first work in which he collects pure traditional pieces and adaptations of them to give it a more youthful air.

TUESDAY AUGUST 16

The religious festival of San Roque will be celebrated on Tuesday the 16th (local holiday), a day in which the religious acts will be officiated and the transfer, from the parish church to the chapel of San Roque, of the image of the Saint at 11.45 hours
A quarter of an hour later, the traditional Water Festival will begin which will gather thousands of people and pilgrims in the square of Galicia, who will ask the inhabitants of Vilagarcía for water to refresh themselves. The water will flood the streets of the town from a tanker truck and from the balconies of houses and buildings in the urban core. Walking this morning through the streets of the village means ending up wet from head to toe.

20.30 - Procession of San Roque, from the chapel of the Saint to the Plaza de España.
At 11:00 p.m., the Night of Zarzuela will begin in Parque da Xunqueira.