- Organized by the City Council and the Cacereña Folklore Association “El Redoble”, it will be held this Friday the 17th and Saturday the 18th in the Plaza Mayor
One more year the best national and international folklore will fill the Plaza Mayor with color and tradition with the “Ciudad de Cáceres” International Folklore Festival – FOLKCáceres 2026, organized by the Cáceres City Council and the Cacereña Folklore Association “El Redoble” that will be held this Friday the 17th and Saturday the 18th starting at 10 p.m.
The Councilor for Culture, Jorge Suárez, presented the festival, accompanied by two members of the association’s board of directors, Elisabeth Collado and Daniel Vinagre, who thanked the City Council for its support “and its commitment to culture.”
Suárez has highlighted that it is a festival “that has already become a classic within the summer programming, with the aim of celebrating cultural diversity and promoting exchange between peoples, which has enriched us as a society and as people, and is also one of the objectives we have in the Cultural Capital Bidbook 2031. We want to promote the immortal heritage that is folklore, and the Redoble is one of the best exponents at a national and international level. The City Council contributes 6,000 euros.”
“A festival that puts us on the map within the folk music circuit at a national and international level with the exchange with both national and international groups,” he stressed, “and with Redoble, one of the most representative groups internationally, who are being essential ambassadors in the candidacy for Cultural Capital 2031, because they always take our city wherever they go, and that culture is the path. Transculture, which is the message we are giving.”
“I encourage the people of Cáceres, and visitors, to enjoy these two intense days. Because in Cáceres, culture never stops; every weekend we have more events. We want culture to transform society, which is our goal, and for Cáceres to be a pioneer in this,” Suárez emphasized.
Collado has highlighted that “more than a festival it has become an event for the union of cultures and coexistence, where people from Cáceres, visitors and folklore lovers come together to enjoy the dissemination of culture and the intangible heritage that is folklore.”
She has detailed that Friday the 17th has an international character “with two spectacular groups”, the Rancho da Amorosa (Portugal) “of great tradition and good work, where their rigor stands out and to make known the dances of their towns”, and the Mien-Moh Artistic Company (Ivory Coast) “is going to be an explosion of music, strength and energy.”
Saturday the 18th will be a national day, with the Don Sancho de Zamora Ethnographic Association “with great relevance in the dissemination of the culture of its people, dances and clothing”; the El Pilar Folklore Group from Zaragoza, “possibly the group with the longest artistic career”, and as a final touch, the performance of the host group, the Cacereña Folklore Association “El Redoble”.
