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Galicia Fest Sells Out and Concludes Second Edition at Vigo Waterfront

Organizers, backed by regional authorities, say moving the festival to late June aims to make it the season‑opening event that raises Vigo’s cultural profile.

Overview

  • The festival, which ran Friday and Saturday, June 26–27, took place at the Muelle de Trasatlánticos and closed as a sold-out, two-day event that drew large afternoon and evening crowds.
  • The two-day programme mixed national and international names — including Coti, Miriam Rodríguez, La Reina del Flow, Taburete, Lori Meyers, Álvaro de Luna and Juan Magán — and the lineup accounts for about 23.53 million monthly Spotify listeners led by Juan Magán’s roughly 12.82 million.
  • General passes exhausted before the weekend and organizers released a final limited tranche of 500 passes days before the festival, which were claimed quickly.
  • Organizers deployed logistical measures such as wristband collection and recharge points, published transport guidance for trains and boats and opened an on-site 'Oficina do Festival' for reporting harassment to improve crowd management and safety.
  • Xunta de Galicia and the Diputación de Pontevedra publicly endorsed the event with site visits and framed the June rescheduling as a deliberate strategy to anchor Galicia Fest as a recurring summer kickoff and to activate the underused port pier as a cultural venue.