Manilva celebrates its annual summer fair each year during the second week of August. This year the dates are from Wednesday, 8th August to Sunday, 12th August inclusive. Apart from the cavalcades most of the activities focus around the fairground on the Rio Manilva Road.

For the full programme:

Programme 

Wednesday, 8th of August

8:00h Morning calls and parade by the Manilva Municipal Band with rockets (just in case you fancied a lie in).

23:00h Official switch on of the fairground illuminations and inauguration of the Caseta Municipal (official pavillion) at the fairground.

23:30 Music and dancing to the group ‘Dinámica Orquesta’ in the official pavillion (Caseta) until the early hours of the morning.

00:00 Coronation of the Feria Queens and their Maids of Honour.

Thursday 9th of August

22:30 Music and dancing to the group ‘Shaft’ in the official pavillion until the early hours of the morning.

23:30 Live concert by the famous Spanish band ‘Danza Invisible’. 

Friday 10th of August

20:00 Grand parade through the streets of Manilva.

23:00 Flamenco performance by the Municipal School of Dance directed by Eva Cabrera. Followed by:

23:30 Flamenco performance by the Municipal School of Dance directed by Inmaculada Chacón.

00:00 Music and dancing to the groups ‘Shaft’ and ‘Dinámica Orquesta’ in the official pavillion until the early hours of the morning

Saturday 11th of August

19:30 Grand parade through the streets of Castillo de la Duquesa. Followed by:

20:00 Parade through the streets of Sabinillas.

23:00 Music and dancing to the groups ‘Shaft’ and ‘Dinámica Orquesta’ in the official pavillion until the early hours of the morning.

Sunday 12th of August

23:30 Live concert in the official pavillion by Manuel Lombo. Who will be performing songs from his latest album of pop flamenco.

Followed by Music and dancing to the groups ‘Shaft’ and ‘Dinámica Orquesta’ in the official pavillion until the early hours of the morning.

Manuel Lombo

He was born in Dos Hermanas, in the province of Seville, in 1980. Manuel Lombo is a born artist: by the time he was five years old he was already singing in shows. He is a member of the company Coro y Danzas de Dos Hermanas, with which he has traveled around the world. He has been awarded two scholarships at the Cristina Heeren  Flamenco school, where he studied in the years 2000 and 2001 with Naranjito de Triana and Jose el de la Tomasa. Now an accomplished flamenco singer, Manuel has been working in peñas and festivals in Andalusia.  Recently he took part in Las Noches de la Torre de Don Fadrique, a series of recitals organized by the City Hall of Seville.  In 2003 and 2004 he toured in the US with Rafael Campallo, at the Miami Festival, The Danny Kaye Playhouse in New York, and at the Festival Flamenco de Monterrey, Mexico. He also had the leading role in the flamenco show Inmigración with which he has performed at the Festival de Jerez, The Forum of Barcelona, France and Germany.

In 2004 he also had one of the leading roles in the show Don Juan Flamenco, presented in the Bienal de Flamenco of Seville, and at the Flamenco Arts Festival of Santa Barbara, (CA).

Manuel is a natural, versatile, and charismatic performer.  Among his qualities are a clear and powerful voice, and unfailing sense of rhythm and a dynamic personality.

Danza Invisible

Danza Invisible, one of Spain's most solid and essential groups and one of few survivors of “la movida” (a Spanish cultural movement of the 1980s) is celebrating its silver anniversary in the music scene.

Emerging in Torremolinos in 1981, in 1983 they made themselves known to the wider public with their hits “Al amanecer” (At dawn) “Tiempo de amor” (Time of love), included in their first album Contacto interior (Inner Contact) and now true classics by the band.

Following a first era with a more alternative sound inspired by groups like Simple Minds, Spandau Ballet or Tears for Fears, they embarked on a second in which they imbued their songs with Latin rhythms, defining and absolutely characteristic and recognisable sound. Since then, they have never ceased their tours of more than fifty concerts per year, releasing albums that get better and better.

Nearly twenty albums, more than a hundred and fifty songs, seven golds and two platinums and a lot of hard work have led to these Malaga-born artists own unique sound.

Without prejudices and with much talent, Danza invisible has arrived at full maturity, knowing what they want, although their surprising freshness makes them seem like they are starting again.

The band consists of Javier Ojeda (lead vocals), Manolo Rubio (guitar and backing vocals), Cristóbal Navas (bass), Antonio L. Gil (guitar), Alejandro Manfrin (drums), Fernando J. Hidalgo (backing vocals and guitar).