Singing together TAPAS (The Andalucia Performing Arts Society) have started a new year and the choir is practising for the performance at their first big TAPAS event of 2024. Rehearsals are on Tuesdays at 5pm till 7pm at Restaurante El Portón de Piedra in Alhaurin el Grande. Singing together is not only great fun but it’s good for mental well-being so, if you are interested to know more about them just go along a little bit early on Tuesday to meet for a chat and a drink. No experience is necessary and all nationalities are welcome. They are not just a fabulous choir, they also organise various social events throughout the year including: coffee mornings, walking groups, ladies who lunch, tours and much more. It’s a wonderful way to get involved and to meet up with old friends and make new ones. For more information, email: info.tapassociety@ gmail.com or you can call or WhatsApp on 685 386 923.
Photo: TAPAS
Already practising.
COSTA DEL SOL
Long live the King
THE Danish Club, based in Mijas, celebrated the coronation of King Frederik X along with Danish residents from along the coast and other guests and presided over by Danish Consul Marisa Moreno. It was a ceremony without the pomp and circumstance of recent coronations, but nevertheless watched with eager anticipation by the Danish community. Queen Margrethe II broke with tradition by abdicating. The last abdication of a Danish monarch was King Eric III in 1146, so this was a historic day for the nation. Although the queen is 83 years old, Danish resident Kim Madsen said, “The abDavid Hart GYPSY Company Productions, brings a new musical show featuring the best cabarets in the world. Decadence, pain, wars, laughter, humour, interaction with the audience. Spectacular choreographies and incredible voices accompany a masterful artistic and theatrical interpretation. It’s the Gran Show at Teatro Auditorio Felipe VI in Estepona on Saturday, March 2 at 8pm with tickets available starting at €14.40 from the TAF Estepona webiste. Cabaret Tribute 50th Anniversary is an exciting journey between Berlin, Paris, New York and London in which you will enter the famous clubs of the 30s and 40s that survived until the 70s. A unique, fresh and different show, where the performers bring together in the same space great stars such as Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra and Charles Chaplin, among
Bill Anderson EWN, Jens Gylling, Consul Marisa Moreno, Diana Seir.
dication was a surprise, but we are so happy to welcome our new king and we wish him all the very best as our new figurehead.” Founder
of the Danish Club in 1981, Jens Erik Gylling, said, “The Queen wanted to live to see her son on the throne, and this is a historic day for Den-
El Gran Show many others. With a staging full of light and magic. The producer and stage director, Lydia Aviméz, said that, “our driving force is to create productions of high culture and to provide employment opportunities for Malaga’s young talent.”
Set in Europe in the 1930s, the plot of ‘Cabaret’ revolves around the romance of a young club singer with an American and the endearing and tragic love story. The best contribution of this masterpiece is the use of songs and musi-
Photo: Gypsy Company Productions
NEW SHOW: Set in Europe in the 1930s.
mark.” Guests were invited to celebrate together with a typical Danish lunch with traditional songs and an upbeat atmosphere. cal numbers that will show the parallels between the musical life of the clubs of the time and what happens in the street, in a journey through the tragic and ironic world outside.
Street art
ON Friday, January 19 at 12.30pm, the Exhibition ‘Fotografía Malagueña 2024’ will be inaugurated on the Paseo Marítimo, Los Boliches, Fuengirola, (next to the roman portico). The exhibition is a varied collection of the photographic activity that takes place in Malaga and its province which follows the success of the first edition of the exhibition ‘Fotografía Malagueña 2022-23’. This time 90 works by as many authors are presented, who were born, emigrated, live or work in this area. The Image Collective is deeply grateful for everyone’s support for this project, including the Town Hall for making Fuengirola a place for visual creation. This format means the works will be on display 24/7 during the six weeks that ‘Fotografía Malagueña 2024’ will be on display and will finish on February 29.