Mamapop celebrates its 10th birthday stronger than ever

The 9th edition of Mamapop is the celebration of a milestone birthday: 10 years since the solidarity show was born, in November 2014. An anniversary that will involve different surprises that will be unveiled as this year's dates approach: Saturday 30 November and Sunday 1 December, in 3 sessions at the Llotja de Lleida. Before that, and for the second year in a row, it will also pass through Tarragona. Mamapop is, for now, the most important artistic-musical show made from Lleida and by Lleida and has become the main source of private funding for the projects against breast cancer led by Dr. Serafín Morales and his team at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Lleida (IRBLleida).

Up to 40 musicians, the MamaBanda, will be on stage, fusing the bases of the best pop-rock of the 80s and 90s with the violins and cellos of the JOP, the Joven Orquesta de Poniente, the Orquesta Sinfónica del Conservatorio el Intérprete and the great voices of soloists such as Paula Costes, Nerea García, Laura Roure, Anna Simon, Xènia Pérez, David Honrrubia, Toni Gilabert, the Balaguer-born Maria Fernández, Pol Simon and Nomís Lenam. All this under the musical direction of Josep Maria Bossa, pianist, guitarist, composer and producer of the label Bolsa Recuerdos, and Alfons Pérez, director of the Intérprete, as technical director.

The artists will perform the best songs by bands such as Alaska y Dinarama, Loquillo y los Trogloditas, Hombres G, La Guardia, Duncan Dhu, Los Secretos, Mecano, Tino Casal, Els Pets, Sau and Sopa de Cabra, among others, for 120 minutes of emotion and solidarity festivities.

Mamapop has managed to consolidate and maintain, throughout this first decade of existence, the double objective with which it was born: to offer important economic support for research, on the one hand, while at the same time offering an unmissable proposal of a top show with which to involve everyone in the cause.

The last event in Lleida had a capacity of 4,000 people, in the 4 concerts held, and has already exceeded, throughout its history, an accumulated figure of more than 250,000 euros that have been allocated to medical research.

The presentation in Lleida of this year's novelties took place at a press conference held at the Parador de Lleida and brought together the Lleida companies that continue to support Mamapop: Atlas Energía, Asurbrok, La Caixa, Codina dental and Viveros Sisco Palacio, as well as representatives of the Diputación de Lleida, which collaborates with Mamapop, and the Paeria.

This year's three sessions at the Llotja will take place at 18:00 and 22:00 on Saturday 30 November and Sunday 1 December at 18:00. Tickets are already on sale on the website www.mamapop.cat and at the offices of the school El Intérprete and Inlingüa.

Text: Mamapop Press