Arroyo de la Miel Daytime Fair: Six Days of Live Music
A six-day daytime fair filling Plaza Adolfo Suárez in Arroyo de la Miel with live flamenco-pop and Spanish bands each afternoon, plus food and drink stalls. Run by the local merchants' association during the San Juan festivities; just turn up, no ticket needed. Acts include Trenzao, Kalima, Alboreá, Esencia, Repicando and El Callejón.
The feria de día is a Spanish summer staple that holidaymakers often walk straight past, and that's a shame. The idea is simple: a band sets up in Plaza Adolfo Suárez every afternoon, the local merchants throw open food and drink stalls, and people drift in to eat, dawdle and sing along until the heat eases. Over these six days you'll catch the likes of Trenzao, Kalima, Alboreá, Esencia, Repicando and El Callejón, mostly flamenco-pop and Spanish bands that get the older crowd dancing in the square.
It's run by the traders' association rather than a big promoter, so it has a neighbourly feel, more Tuesday-afternoon catch-up than tourist spectacle. There's no ticket and no fuss; turn up, grab a cold drink and a plate of something fried, and settle in. It ties in with the late-June San Juan fiestas, so the whole town is in the mood anyway.