The 15th Puerta del Bajo Andarax Flamenco Festival will be held on 19 September 2026, at 9:30 pm, at the Teatro Multiusos de Huércal de Almería. This year’s edition is headlined by Huércal-born dancer Inés de Inés, who will perform alongside a broad cast of guest artists and students from her own flamenco school.
The line-up brings together dance, singing, guitar and palmas in a single evening. Inés de Inés will be joined by her regular guitarist, Antonio de Quero; the singers will be Alejandro “El Gambimbas”, Antonio Heredia and El Niño de las Cuevas; Paco de Andrea will also dance, and Marcos Martínez and Daniela Cortés will provide palmas.
Admission will be free until full capacity, so free admission should not be understood as guaranteed entry once the theatre is full.
The organisers may change schedules, the line-up or access conditions. We recommend checking municipal information before travelling.
Quick answer: the Puerta del Bajo Andarax Flamenco Festival 2026 takes place on 19 September at 9:30 pm at the Teatro Multiusos de Huércal de Almería. Admission is free until full capacity. Inés de Inés headlines the line-up alongside Antonio de Quero, Alejandro “El Gambimbas”, Antonio Heredia, El Niño de las Cuevas, Paco de Andrea, Marcos Martínez, Daniela Cortés and the cast of the Inés de Inés Flamenco School.
The programme announced for 2026 is conceived as a single flamenco show starting at 9:30 pm. At the time of preparing this guide, no individual running order or separate times for each artist had been published, so the “programme” should be understood as the full confirmed cast for the evening.
The spotlight falls on Inés de Inés, but the show is built to combine the different flamenco disciplines. This continues one of the festival’s historic hallmarks: bringing singing, guitar and dance together on the same stage, with artists linked to Almería alongside guests from other parts of Andalusia.
The announced line-up does not currently specify an individual time for each appearance.
The choice of Inés de Inés as the central figure has special significance: the dancer was born in Huércal de Almería and her professional career has developed without losing its connection to the province. Inés García Hernández began dancing at a very young age and later trained at the Professional Dance Conservatory of Almería, broadening her studies with teachers and leading flamenco dancers.
In 2015 she won first prize in the provincial stage of the Desencaja Young Andalusian Flamenco Artists competition, and over the years she has built a career combining performance, teaching and direction of her own school. By September 2026 she was also arriving at the festival after several performances at cultural venues in Almería, confirming a period of intense artistic activity.
Placing her at the centre of the line-up also reflects the municipality’s intention to give visibility to local talent. This is not simply about adding an artist from Huércal to the programme: the edition is structured around her, her regular collaborators and the educational work she carries out with her students.
On guitar will be Antonio de Quero, a regular accompanist of Inés de Inés and one of the names linked to today’s Almería flamenco scene. Born in Almería in 1991, he began his musical training with classical guitar before turning his studies towards flamenco guitar, attending conservatories in Almería, Córdoba and Murcia.
His career combines accompaniment, composition, teaching and activity in flamenco clubs. De Quero has a particularly close relationship with Peña Flamenca El Morato, where he has developed artistic and educational work. He also received distinctions in the provincial stage of the Desencaja competition in 2014 and 2015.
His presence gives continuity to Inés de Inés’s dancing: when a dancer works with a regular guitarist, there is mutual knowledge of cues, endings, dynamics and stage breathing that can give the show a cohesion different from that of a one-off collaboration.
The vocal section brings together three names. Granada artists Alejandro “El Gambimbas” and Antonio Heredia are part of the announced singing cast, while El Niño de las Cuevas takes part as a guest. The poster does not publicly assign a specific repertoire or palo to each performer, so it would be premature to predict which styles will be heard during the evening.
Also joining the dance is Paco de Andrea, in addition to Inés herself. The presence of another dancer broadens the stage possibilities and prevents the proposal from being reduced to a single solo recital. Added to this is the cast of the Inés de Inés Flamenco School, one of the most distinctive elements of the 2026 programme.
The school’s participation turns the edition into a bridge between the professional career of its main artist and her role as a teacher. For an established municipal festival, including students alongside professional artists also reinforces a function that goes beyond entertainment: maintaining a space for transmission and creating close references for new generations of fans and students.
The rhythm will be supported by Marcos Martínez and Daniela Cortés on palmas, an essential role in a flamenco dance production and especially important when the evening combines several performers and formats.
Admission to the 15th Puerta del Bajo Andarax Flamenco Festival will be free until full capacity. The sources consulted do not announce paid ticket sales or a ticketing platform for this edition; the published condition is precisely free access subject to the available capacity of the Teatro Multiusos.
This makes it advisable to arrive well in advance. At a free event headlined by a local artist, attendance may build up before the start time and access could close once the authorised capacity has been reached.
If the organisers later introduce invitations, advance booking or a specific access procedure, we will update this guide. For now, what is confirmed is free admission until full capacity.
For last-minute information, Huércal de Almería City Council publishes its agenda and provides citizen assistance on 950 30 00 50. We do not recommend travelling on the assumption that you can enter at the last minute if the festival is one of the main reasons for your trip.
The festival will take place at the Teatro Multiusos, located at Paseo del Generalife, 40, in Huércal de Almería. The venue is used for theatre, concerts and cultural activities and has become the recent home of this flamenco event.
The change of venue is relatively recent. Until 2023, the Puerta del Bajo Andarax Festival was associated with the Plaza de la Constitución, but in 2024 the organisers moved the thirteenth edition to the Teatro Multiusos. Both the 2025 and 2026 editions have retained this venue.
The indoor format provides more stable stage infrastructure and makes the event less dependent on weather conditions. It also simplifies the location for visitors: search for “Teatro Multiusos de Huércal de Almería” or enter Paseo del Generalife, 40 directly into your navigation app.
Reaching the fifteenth edition means this can now be described as an established event on Huércal de Almería’s cultural calendar. Since its earliest editions, the festival has defended a recognisable formula: presenting the different flamenco disciplines and combining artists from the province with performers from elsewhere.
That idea has been documented since the festival’s early years. By the fourth edition, it was already explicitly explained that the format sought to unite singing, dance and guitar and mix Almería artists with invited figures. Later editions have featured names such as Antonio Reyes or Capullo de Jerez, alongside artists linked to Huércal and the Almería flamenco scene.
Recent years also show particular attention to female leading artists. In 2024, the central figure was Huércal singer Antonia Fernández. In 2025, the line-up was headed by Jerez singer María Terremoto and Almería dancer Tania Santiago. In 2026, the focus falls on Inés de Inés.
The continuity of this line does not mean the festival gives up variety. The 2026 line-up once again includes guest voices, guitar, dance and rhythm, but structures the whole event around an artist born and trained in the municipality itself. It is a way of making local identity the axis of a programme open to other accents of Andalusian flamenco.
The main attraction of the Puerta del Bajo Andarax Festival 2026 lies in the combination of three factors: free admission, a line-up built around a local artist and the presence of the different flamenco disciplines.
For those who live in Almería or are in the province during September, it is an opportunity to attend a full evening without the usual cost of a theatre show. For the more specialised fan, the proposal is interesting because of the artistic relationship between Inés de Inés and Antonio de Quero, the presence of voices from Granada and the inclusion of students from the school.
It is also interesting for those who want to understand how Andalusia’s network of municipal festivals works. Not all the year’s great flamenco moments take place in capital cities or major biennials: local festivals like this one maintain stable programming, bring artists closer to new audiences and allow professionals from the area to share the bill with guests from other provinces.
If you are also interested in the free recitals taking place across Andalusia at this time of year, see our guide to the Andalusian Flamenco Club Circuit 2026, with 225 performances across all eight Andalusian provinces.
This event is especially recommended for fans of flamenco dance and for those who want to discover artists linked to Almería. Inés de Inés does not appear as just another guest, but as the centre of an edition designed to highlight her career and teaching work.
To enjoy it with peace of mind, we recommend three simple things:
If you are travelling specifically from another town, allow enough time to park, find the entrance and get in without relying on the final minutes. At free festivals, that extra margin can be the difference between getting a place and finding the venue full.
Huércal de Almería is part of the metropolitan area of the provincial capital, but the festival shows that flamenco activity in the province is not concentrated only in the city of Almería. Flamenco clubs, municipalities, festivals and cultural venues maintain programmes that make it possible to follow singing, guitar and dance for much of the year.
Puerta del Bajo Andarax occupies a particular place on that map because it has managed to maintain its own identity for fifteen editions and because it insists on giving space to artists from the area. The 2026 edition reinforces that idea: the main artist was born in Huércal, the guitarist accompanying her is closely linked to Almería flamenco, and the dancer’s school takes part on the same stage.
For visiting audiences, that closeness is part of the appeal. It is not just a line-up of artists; it is also a snapshot of how a municipality keeps a flamenco event alive and uses the festival to connect professional careers, education and local culture.
The festival takes place on Saturday, 19 September 2026. The show will begin at 9:30 pm.
The 15th edition will take place at the Teatro Multiusos de Huércal de Almería, located at Paseo del Generalife, 40, 04230 Huércal de Almería, Almería.
Yes. The announced admission is free until full capacity. This means access may close once the Teatro Multiusos reaches capacity, so it is advisable to arrive early.
The main featured artist is Huércal-born dancer Inés de Inés, who will perform accompanied by her regular guitarist Antonio de Quero and a broad cast of guest artists.
The announced line-up includes Inés de Inés and Paco de Andrea dancing; Alejandro “El Gambimbas”, Antonio Heredia and El Niño de las Cuevas singing; Antonio de Quero on guitar; Marcos Martínez and Daniela Cortés on palmas, as well as the cast of the Inés de Inés Flamenco School.
No separate schedule has been published for each performance. The announced programme sets the general start at 9:30 pm and presents the full cast for the evening.
The published information consulted does not announce ticket sales or an advance booking system. The stated condition is free admission until full capacity. If the City Council later introduces invitations or reservations, we will update this guide.
The 2026 edition is organised by Huércal de Almería City Council as part of its municipal cultural programme.
To prepare this guide, we cross-checked the published information on the 2026 edition with recent local sources and the institutional listing for the Teatro Multiusos.
Verification note: some press releases reproduce “Friday 19 September”, but 19 September 2026 falls on a Saturday, and the Almería24h event listing also identifies it as Saturday. In this guide we use the correct date: Saturday, 19 September 2026.
Information reviewed on 8 September 2026. The programme, access conditions and line-up may change. Check municipal channels before travelling.
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