When and where does Carlos Varela play on La Palma?
Cuban singer-songwriter Carlos Varela takes the stage at the Teatro Circo de Marte in Santa Cruz de La Palma on Friday 13 November 2026. According to the published programme, the concert starts at 20:30 and ends around 22:00.
The theatre is at Calle Virgen de La Luz 5, postcode 38700, in the centre of the island capital. Nobody has published travel or parking advice, so visitors from further afield should plan their own journey home late on Friday evening.
The programme names no organiser. Neither the Ayuntamiento (town hall), the Cabildo (island government) nor the theatre has confirmed the date in any source we found.
How much are the tickets and where can you buy them?
Tickets cost between 11 and 20 euros, according to the programme. It lists no individual categories, discounts or concessions.
The buy button leads to the online platform Tomaticket. We could not check whether tickets remain there or what they cost exactly.
Before you travel, check the Tomaticket page for free seats. No source says how many people the theatre holds.
For comparison, the concert at the Teatro Leal in La Laguna, Tenerife, on 12 April 2025 listed a price of 22 euros. The two evenings are not directly comparable, because La Palma has only a range.
Who is Carlos Varela?
According to the programme text, Varela is one of the most influential singer-songwriters in Cuban music. It says he has toured with Joaquín Sabina, Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Jackson Browne and Dave Matthews.
In 2004 Varela travelled through several European countries with Jackson Browne. That same year the director Alejandro Gonzáles Iñarritu chose his song “Una Palabra” for the short film “The Hire – Powder Keg”.
The director Tony Scott used the song in the closing scene of “Man on Fire”. The programme text calls it Varela's most covered piece, translated into about ten languages.
HBO released the documentary “The Poet of Havana”, narrated by Benicio del Toro, in 2015, and in 2016 Varela played the Lincoln Center in New York. All of this comes from the programme's promotional text and has not been independently checked.
Which album is at the centre of the show, and has Varela played the Canary Islands before?
According to the programme, “Nada es como Antes” is Varela's latest studio album, recorded in Madrid in 2024 and released after nine albums. Its songs deal with change, emigration, loneliness, uprooting, nostalgia and the scars that life leaves.
The text says he blends raw poetry with acoustic and contemporary melodies. The programme points to more than four decades of career.
The release year differs between sources, and none says whether the Santa Cruz evening is part of the same tour. The announcement for the Teatro Leal concert on 12 April 2025 calls the album “new”, while the La Palma programme dates it to 2024.
According to one report, Varela first played the Canary Islands in 1989, on Tenerife and at Silvio Rodríguez's invitation, and recorded his first album there. On 23 February 2024 he played the Teatro Leal in La Laguna at 20:30 for the 35th anniversary of “Jalisco Park”.
What kind of venue is the Teatro Circo de Marte?
The Teatro Circo de Marte was originally meant for cockfights, hence the name “Circo”. A new structure grew around the old round space, which later became the auditorium, and its ring holds the rooms for running the theatre.
Accounts of its origins differ. One reference work gives 1871 for construction and 1918 for the opening as a theatre, while a visitor directory gives 1873.
The house is a Bien de Interés Cultural (protected heritage site). An entry in the BOC (Canary Islands official gazette) no. 044 of 7 April 1997 opened the protection procedure, but we did not check the official text itself.
The programme mixes theatre, zarzuela (a Spanish form of musical theatre), concerts and children's plays. Varela would be a guest from the singer-songwriter and pop world.
What is still open before 13 November?
Several basics are unpublished: the organiser, seating capacity, individual price categories and possible discounts. We found no other Canary Islands dates for Varela this year, only dates in the USA in 2026, for example Newark on 16 May 2026.
There is no official guidance on getting to Santa Cruz de La Palma or on parking. The Tomaticket page, the theatre and the culture department of the Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz de La Palma can give binding information.
The basics are fixed: Friday 13 November 2026, 20:30, Calle Virgen de La Luz 5. Everything else depends on what the ticket seller and the theatre still confirm.