Gala BLUME GRAN CANARIA: "Jesús Telo Núñez"

Once again this year, the festival filled the sports halls and stages of the island with an audience and with actors who devoted themselves in their free time to the manifold possibilities of different kinds of gymnastics. But the history of this event has also been into the focus of attention:
The BLUME Gala at the Commercial Center YUMBO in the heart of Maspalomas this week also focused on the memory of the festival's founder, "Jesús TELO Núñez", the Canary Islands' father of gymnastics, who created his last festival in 2007 and passed away on 05. November 2008, November 08. His son Jesus TELO Rodriguez is now continuing this tradition with his proven organizational staff and is already preparing the next big jubilee, the 60^th BLUME FESTIVAL Gran Canaria in the Olympic year 2020, in memoriam of Joaquin BLUME, the four-times European artistic gymnastics champion of the Fifties in the last century...

<< The pyramid builders in the BLUME show from Lower Bavaria and those on the beach from Upper Bavaria came to Gran Canaria this year as the newcomers to the almost 60-year-old BLUME festival tradition: From the Lower Bavarian metropolis Landshut the railway association "ETSV 09 Landshut" and from Upper Bavaria, from the vicinity of Lake Chiemsee, the "TSV Siegsdorf". At the end of May / beginning of June, both groups qualified at the Bavarian Gymfestival Festival in Schweinfurt, as it were, through the special performances of their show performances. So they noticed the Spanish "Scouts", who annually hand over special invitations to the best island formations of such group competitions, such as "Show-Time", "Dance2u" and "Rendezvous of the Best" (- these are special general gymnastics events in Germany) invitations to the international island highlight "BLUME Gran Canaria" in the form of special conditions. And that, of course, raises the sporting and aesthetic level of the BLUME programs here at the island events year after year ...

Traditionally, a typical, colorful stage show program in the shopping center "Yumbo" of the tourist resort Maspalomas in the south of the island Cran Canaria opened the 59th FLUME-Festival 2019. Clubs, groups from European nations as well as native folkloristic formations led their shows acts, some of them were specially designed for this program. Like no other sport, the gymnastics disciplines have a sheer limitless variety of design options, from acrobatics to artistry, from age-specific gymnastics to dance, while the creative variety of design options seem endless. This kaleidoscope of possibility therefore offered best exchange between the different nationalities ...