The Fest Awards, held last night in the BIME framework in Bilbao, highlighted what was experienced on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of September in our town. The Cala Mijas has won the award for Revelation Festival, a recognition that rewards originality, programming, innovation, sustainability and the set of services offered in a vote made up of a mixed public and a professional jury’s vote. 

The Mayor of Mijas, Josele Gónzalez (PSOE), and the Councillor for Fiestas, Tamara Vera (PSOE), announced the news on Thursday. The Councillor assured that “ the Government team and the Department of Fiestas, as the driving force behind the project, have made the right decision to hold this event. It is a commitment to culture, creating one of the festivals of greatest impact in our country and an unprecedented repercussion in Malaga province and in the South of Spain”. This award now positions Mijas as a headliner on the national festival circuit. “Three years ago, we believed in this project. It positioned Mijas at the first level, and we have achieved this together. Not only at the municipal level but with the Mijas people, in short, the whole municipality of Mijas, who have bet on this festival, as many residents have attended it”. 

 

The award is also an endorsement of the success of this festival, which required, they emphasise, the work and coordination of numerous municipal departments. “We have consolidated this revelation festival in our municipality. A lot of work was required by many departments’ agents. They have been involved in it, working side by side to carry out its celebration, and the promoter company Last Tour to all of them. I want to convey my thanks,” said Vera.

“This award rewards the whole people network as: suppliers and attendees to institutions and artists, from local to international, joining forces to make the Cala Mijas Festival possible”, adds Eva Castillo, Last Tour’s communication director.
The festival welcomed 107,000 people from 50 countries and had an economic impact of 20 million euros. It transformed the city and created a venue, the Sonora, which, like the event, is here to stay. “The site was transformed by the Mijas Town Hall. It was the municipal rubbish dump formerly, and it was adapted, with no little effort, to put at the service of all these attendees and lovers of culture and festivals a naturalised space and adapted precisely to celebrate this event,” added González. 2023 Edition This award encourages the organisation to continue working on the Cala Mijas Festival 2023, with dates already announced for 31st August, 1st and 2nd September, and whose line-up we will know soon. “Now, let’s go for the second festival edition. I am sure, still without advancing any name, we will announce in the coming weeks that the second edition will cause a strong revulsion among all those  waiting for this second edition,” concluded theFiestas Councillor. The organisers assure that the festival will continue to be committed to a complete, sustainable, original and innovative musical experience.

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