Compromís: música valenciana exclosa de la Gran Fira
- Compromís said Valencia’s PP-Vox government approved a 2026 Gran Fira lineup that again leaves Valencian-language music out of the city’s flagship summer festival. - Councillor Pere Fuset said the approved program covers 97 activities, including Viveros concerts, neighborhood events and Jardines del Palau, with Valencian still marginal. - The complaint extends a third straight year of disputes over language and local artists in the festival program. (europapress.es)
Compromís says Valencia’s 2026 Gran Fira has again been programmed without Valencian-language music in its main festival lineup. (europapress.es) (levante-emv.com) The opposition party said on April 27 it will take the issue to the Síndic de Greuges, the Valencian ombudsman, after the city government approved the program in local cabinet. (europapress.es) Compromís councillor Pere Fuset said the approved schedule includes 97 activities across the Concerts de Viveros, neighborhood programming and the Jardines del Palau cycle. (europapress.es) Levante-EMV reported the party’s specific complaint this week: no groups or performances in Valencian were included in the festival program presented by the governing team. (levante-emv.com) The dispute reaches beyond one concert series because Gran Fira is Valencia’s month-long summer festival, with city-backed programming spread across major venues and neighborhoods. (granferiavalencia.com 1) (granferiavalencia.com 2) The official Gran Fira site shows programming beginning in late June and running through July, including concerts, fallas preselection events and performances in the Jardins del Palau. (granferiavalencia.com) The city’s 2025 presentation described Gran Fira as a festival with more than 400 free activities across neighborhoods, pedanías and central public spaces. (valencia.es) This is also not a new fight over 2026 programming. In February, the Federació Valenciana de la Indústria Musical said the Concerts de Vivers lineup had excluded Valencian musicians, especially those singing in Valencian, for a third straight year. (valenciaplaza.com) FEVIM said the Viveros program favored big Spanish and international names while local acts and Valencian-language proposals were “testimonial or nonexistent” in one of the city’s most visible stages. (valenciaplaza.com) Compromís has framed the latest complaint as part of a broader pattern since Mayor María José Catalá’s PP-Vox government took office in 2023, naming fiestas councillor Mónica Gil and fallas councillor Santiago Ballester. (europapress.es) The next step is the ombudsman complaint, with Compromís arguing the city should revise a festival meant to represent Valencia without leaving its own language off the stage. (europapress.es)
