He Port of Santa Maria will host November 20 to 22 a new edition of Monkey Week SON Estrella Galiciawho this year celebrates his return home with the Castle of San Marcos as headquarters.
The Andalusian festival, a true beacon of independent and professional music, will display a monumental program: almost a hundred national and international artists and some professional days —the Monkey PRO— that will once again take the pulse of the music industry from all its angles.
Now an essential event on the Spanish musical calendar, Monkey Week SON Estrella Galicia He returns to his hometown to fill the streets of Puerto de Santa María with rhythm and debate. Under the usual motto – “discover the music of tomorrow today” – the festival recovers the essence of the meeting between artists, professionals and the public, in spaces as emblematic as the Castle of San Marcos, Cossío House wave Osborne Mora Winery.
The Monkey PRO professional days They will deploy a complete program of panels, workshops, speed meetings, auditions and cocktails designed to foster connection between the different agents in the sector.
Among the main dishes, the 3rd Congress of Live Music Festivalspromoted by the Music Festivals Association (FMA), which will focus on sustainability, taxation, parity and professionalization of the sector.
Also returns Suntracksthe meeting of international music supervisors organized together with the SGAE Foundation, with names like Nora Dabdoub, Mikkel Maltha or Marguerite Giryresponsible for synchronization in productions such as Better Call Saul, Another Round or Downton Abbey.
BMG will present a series of panels on hot topics: relevance of negative criticism in music journalism, the business beyond streaming either the global record release strategy. To them will be added debates on mental health, cybersecuritycomposition and the new figure of the musician-producer in the independent scene.
Like every year, Monkey Week SON Estrella Galicia will also be a unbeatable showcase of talent. Almost a hundred proposals will pass through their stages, among them Cupid, Destroyer, Vera Fauna, Joe Crepúsculo, La Tania, Dame Area, Leeches del Guadiana, La Paloma, Repion, Carmen Lancho, Frente Abierto with Lela Soto and Sebastián Cruz, Aiko the group, Los Sara Fontán, 800 Gondomar, Capitão Fausto, Rizha, Rata, Sofia Gabanna or Winona Riders. And there are still names to be announced.
The 17th edition will feature ddelegations and export offices as Navarra Music Commission, INAMU (Argentina), Mediterranew Musix – Valencian Community Tourism or the Canarian Institute of Cultural Developmentwho will present professional proposals and receptions. The first assembly of RASC, the Association of Concert Halls in Andalusia, will also be held and the 30th anniversary of AIEnRUTa-Artistasabsolute reference on the state scene.
Among the international names who will pass through the festival are Anamaria Sayre (Tiny Desk producer), Rodrigo Duarte (Rock Al Parque), Javier Hernandez (Live Latino Mexico), Oskar Strajn (Eurosonic), Phoebe Lou Smolin (Captured Tracks) or Canan Yurdakul (EBB Music), consolidating the global nature of the event.
Tomorrow’s music comes home —El Puerto de Santa María— to remind us why the Monkey continues to be much more than a festival: it is a community, a conversation and a laboratory where the future of music is rehearsed every November.
