Where do I buy a ticket?

From entradascanarias.com, which the ticket page of lpatemudasfest.com links to. Price according to the festival: 15 euros for everyone, shuttle included.

Where does the shuttle leave from?

From behind the El Muelle shopping centre in Santa Catalina, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. First departure 20:30, return trips from 23:30.

Can I walk or take a taxi?

No. According to the ticket seller, access is only possible with the Guaguas Municipales bus service.

What do I need to bring?

A physical ID card: tickets are issued in the attendee's name, and every attendee's details are requested at purchase. No other rules have been published.

What else is free at TEMUDAS this week?

Almost everything around Parque Santa Catalina, such as Theater Titanick's "Kipppunkt" (Thursday and Friday) and "We Will Rock You 3.0" (Friday, 22:00). Only "Liberté" at the Pérez Galdós and the port concert need paid tickets.

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An orchestra in Las Palmas's container port: 15 euros, and the shuttle bus is the only way in

On Saturday 26 September from 22:00 to 23:30 the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria plays inside the Terminal de Contenedores del Muelle de La Luz, Boluda's container terminal at the Port of Las Palmas, a site normally closed to the public. A ticket costs 15 euros and includes the return trip on special Guaguas Municipales shuttle buses, because there is no other way to get there. There are effectively no tickets left: on Thursday 24 September the ticket seller entradascanarias.com listed the date as sold out, and on 23 September the Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria reported "lleno absoluto" — full but for ten remaining tickets. The festival’s own pages still link through to the box office, but nobody should count on that.

21 September 2026 · By Lucía Medina Reyes · 5 min · Editorial responsibility: Matthias Camenzind, Editor-in-Chief

Photo: Ivanhercaz, CC BY-SA 4.0 (illustrative image).

Key facts

When and where: Saturday 26 September 2026, 22:00 to 23:30, Terminal de Contenedores del Muelle de La Luz (Boluda), Port of Las Palmas — according to the TEMUDAS festival's programme page on lpacultura.com.
Price: a single price of 15 euros, return shuttle included, according to the festival's press release of 30 July 2026 and the event page on entradascanarias.com.
Sales: on 24 September the ticket seller entradascanarias.com listed the date as sold out. The Ayuntamiento had reported "lleno absoluto" on 23 September: ten tickets left on sale. The event page on lpacultura.com still links through to entradascanarias.com to buy.
Named tickets: buyers must give every attendee's details, and a physical ID card (DNI) is required at the entrance, says the notice on entradascanarias.com.
Shuttle: the meeting point is behind the Centro Comercial El Muelle, from 20:30; the ride is included in the ticket and, according to the festival, is the only way onto the site. Return trips from 23:30.

Why only the bus gets in

The terminal is a working port, not a concert hall. The ticket seller's notice is blunt: access to the port area is only possible with the special service laid on by the municipal bus company; anyone arriving by private car, taxi or on foot will not be let in. The buses leave from the back of the El Muelle shopping centre in Santa Catalina; according to the culture portal lpacultura.com, it sits at the end of Plaza de Canarias, opposite Avenida Mesa y López. The first bus leaves at 20:30 and return trips start at 23:30, "once the concert ends". None of the sources gives a frequency, a last departure or the number of buses. On 21 September guaguas.com had published nothing about the service yet.

The programme: from Verdi to The Firebird

The evening takes its title from its first piece, "La forza del destino". According to the festival's page, it opens with Verdi's overture to that opera, followed by Richard Strauss's tone poem "Don Juan", Jean Sibelius's "Valse triste" and "Finlandia", and a selection from Stravinsky's "Firebird" Suite in its 1919 version. After that, the programme list adds three popular pieces: Zequinha de Abreu's "Tico-Tico", a mambo by Dámaso Pérez Prado and the Radetzky March by Johann Strauss I. The theme, according to the festival: the great forces that drive human beings, with fate as the common thread.

Who is playing

The Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria (OFGC) is the island's orchestra. According to the festival, symphonic activity in Las Palmas dates back to 1845; today's orchestra grew out of the public foundation set up by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria in 1980 and has toured Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan and China. It is conducted by Karel Mark Chichon, the OFGC's chief conductor and artistic director since May 2017, under contract until the 2026–27 season. His own biography says he was born in London in 1971, comes from Gibraltar and was chief conductor of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern from 2011 to 2017.

Among the cranes since 2012

The "Concierto entre contenedores" (concert among the containers) began in 2012. By the festival's count, this year is the OFGC's 15th appearance at TEMUDAS and its 13th in the port: in 2020 and 2021 the concert moved to Parque Santa Catalina because of Covid restrictions. It is made possible by Boluda Corporación Marítima and the Port Authority of Las Palmas. The programme page speaks of "more than 3,000 people" for whom the terminal is opened. According to the organisers, the concert has sold out in previous years; they do not say which ones.

The festival's final week: 24 to 26 September

The concert closes the 30th edition of TEMUDAS, the biggest in its history according to the festival: 95 performances, 17 productions from the Canary Islands, 26 from the rest of Spain and 10 from abroad. Almost everything around Parque Santa Catalina is free. From the closing days: "Kipppunkt" by the German company Theater Titanick (Thursday 22:00 and Friday 21:00, Espacio Parque), "Sodade" by France's Minuit Compagnie (Thursday and Friday, 20:00), "We Will Rock You 3.0" with the Banda Sinfónica Municipal (Friday 22:00, stage A), and circus from 12:00 on Saturday, including Duo Kaos from Italy and Guatemala. Apart from the concert, the only paid show is Rocío Pozo's flamenco piece "Liberté" at the Teatro Pérez Galdós, for 14 euros; the festival lists 25 and 26 September, while the theatre's website showed only the Saturday on 21 September. "Cenadefindeaño. Resonare" (Friday and Saturday) requires free registration on lpacultura.com, where only the 22:00 slots were still available on Monday.

There and back by shuttle only: buses leave from behind the El Muelle shopping centre, the first at 20:30, and return trips to the same point start at 23:30, according to the ticket seller. The frequency is not published, so arrive early. Bring your original ID card: it is checked at the entrance. Weather: AEMET's forecast of 21 September for Las Palmas de Gran Canaria gave 24 to 29 degrees for Saturday, a light northerly wind and a 5 per cent chance of rain.

The concert is effectively sold out: on 24 September the ticket seller entradascanarias.com listed the date as sold out, and on 23 September the Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria had reported "lleno absoluto" — ten tickets still on sale. The event page on lpacultura.com and the festival’s own page still link to the box office; only what the seller shows is binding. No ticket means no seat on the shuttle, and no shuttle means no access: the port lets no one in on foot, by taxi or by private car. Nothing has been published on accessibility, seating or food and drink.

FAQ

Where do I buy a ticket?: From entradascanarias.com, which the ticket page of lpatemudasfest.com links to. Price according to the festival: 15 euros for everyone, shuttle included.
Where does the shuttle leave from?: From behind the El Muelle shopping centre in Santa Catalina, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. First departure 20:30, return trips from 23:30.
Can I walk or take a taxi?: No. According to the ticket seller, access is only possible with the Guaguas Municipales bus service.
What do I need to bring?: A physical ID card: tickets are issued in the attendee's name, and every attendee's details are requested at purchase. No other rules have been published.
What else is free at TEMUDAS this week?: Almost everything around Parque Santa Catalina, such as Theater Titanick's "Kipppunkt" (Thursday and Friday) and "We Will Rock You 3.0" (Friday, 22:00). Only "Liberté" at the Pérez Galdós and the port concert need paid tickets.

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Correction, 24 September 2026: an earlier version said the concert was not yet sold out on 23 September and that nobody had announced a sell-out. The Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria had already stated in its release of 23 September 2026 that the closing concert was at "lleno absoluto", with ten tickets left on sale; on 24 September the ticket seller entradascanarias.com listed the date as sold out. The passages on ticket availability have been changed.