Welcome to MARÉ, the Festival of Atlantic Music and Arts

From September 25 to 29, the 5th edition of the MARÉ Festival arrived in Compostela with the aim of catalyzing Galicia’s cultural links with the world, ranging from musical to linguistic connections, passing through emotional, historical and symbolic ones.

With two decades of life, MARÉ arrived in Compostela in 2020 to make visible a city that projects itself to the world through back and forth paths in an intercultural dialogue between both sides of the Atlantic.

MARÉ is a concept that promotes artistic encounter and pays attention to social inclusion, feminism, sexual diversity, local communities or environmental sustainability. An opportunity to discover new proposals and provoke unprecedented collaborations between invited artists.

Over the course of five days, more than 30 bands passed through MARÉ, with approximately 200 artists on the different stages, coming from at least ten different countries.

MARÉ is a festival that promotes warmth and closeness and an integration in the city by carefully approaching the Heritage. Both in the architectural and landscape aspect, as well as in the intangible emotional aspect, weaving links with emblematic musical communities of Compostela. An idea of ​​extensive culture, away from macro-aphorisms, in which the public lives the experience of being close to the artists.

The MARÉ Festival programs in up to half a dozen different spaces

From emblematic outdoor spaces, such as Praza da Quintana or Praza de Mazarelos, to spaces that make up the city’s historical heritage fabric such as the Principal Theater or the Galician Center for Contemporary Art (CGAC). These spaces will be joined by well-known private spaces such as the Capitol Room or the Casa das Crechas, among other rooms.

Around twenty international programmers from more than a dozen countries are present in Compostela during this event, to take part in various meetings. One of them is the MATE Meeting , the European network around culture and territory that, with MARÉ as its epicenter in Galicia, will connect Compostela with Thessaloniki in Greece and Coimbra in Portugal.

Likewise, a festival that programs music from a dozen different languages ​​is also no stranger to the celebration of the European Day of Languages ​​(September 26), which every year has its own celebration space within the program, to reflect multiculturalism linguistics that surrounds us.