A huge thank you! Your generosity and support is unwaivering as we raised an amazing 2824€ to be shared equally between cudeca and axarquia animal rescue.
In its second year and back by popular demand, ‘Cómpeta Rocks On’ and the Drums of Africa welcomed 179 audience members and performers on a steamy August 8th night with a colourful and vibrant performance setting the bench mark for those who were to follow and we were not disappointed. 14 year old ELLA wowed with her very mature, delightfully melodic and entertaining performance, please come back and visit us again soon ELLA!
Quoting Maggie Woodward “a grand buffet which would have been acceptable at the finest of occasions” followed and was again served by Despacho de Fernan. Cooked by Isabel, ably assisted by Debbie Lowe Atkinson and Megan Rose, they surpassed themselves once again. Well done ladies!
Geoff Murrell slid smoothly from his hosting role … thank you Geoff … to join Martin and Phil and MPG took us very comfortably through the next hour as the moon rose over the roof tops. Meanwhile the Tombola Table and Jo Ramsey Whale were kept very busy handing out a smorgasbord of prizes from Teddy Bears to Cases of Wine and everything imaginable in between.
Moving up in gear, the Booze Brothers, a late but welcome addition to the line-up were on stage next. Rob Downes and David Beale were joined by London based Songwriter and Producer Paul Stratham on keyboard and guitar and they delivered an eclectic mix, amongst others their take on the Sex Pistols and Gary Numan which was hugely entertaining.
At this point the doors opened and we welcomed a further 145 paying guests swelling our numbers close to 350 and boy wasn’t it electric!
The Luxury Raffle then took place and this year the prizes surpassed themselves. Another big thank you to Kevin Deavin, the Raffle King who sold all 1000 tickets, unbelievable! Further thanks go to SailandStay, Marina del Este / Sergio & Cele Fernandez SF and Cómpeta Properties / Mike Cunningham / Los Olivillos Mountain Retreat / Caleta Cruise Club Nik & Jo Ramsey Whale / Muebles Piramides / Vinomar Torre del Mar and Hannah Murray TalkRadioEurope San Pedro for their generosity.
Next up and to close the evening were GUIRI and what a crowd pleaser, there was not an inch of space left on the dance floor. Before they went on Pix Pickford met a huge fan who had travelled all the way from Barcelona to see GUIRI and had even bought along some original ‘O Band’ vinyl albums in a hope for an autograph. Steve got to meet his idol and got his autograph, one happy customer!
Thank you to all the performers who played for free, we could not do it without you.
Thanks also to all the volunteers and visiting relatives who made a massive contribution in delivering the evening so smoothly and also to Antonio & Belen El Recreo who committed to be a part of this event without question. To quote John Dunford “a great night from first to last. Incredibly good food, great service from the bars, excellent organisation” and again Maggie Woodward who wrote “the atmosphere was superb with a great party vibe with much dancing” .
Great result and thank you again for all the wonderful messages and for digging so deep. See you next year ….. Possibly!
Debi, Sue and Jo
To learn more about Cudeca go to www.cudeca.org and AAR go to www.axarquiaanimalrescue.com
