The assembly work for the Gala del Cocido has already begun.
Ana Guerra, Marc Seguí, Isabel Aaiún, Nebulossa (last year's Eurovision representative), David de María, La Década Prodigiosa, El Combo Dominicano, Olympus, Antonio Barros (Galician soloist), Penúltima Sabinera (Joaquín Sabina covers), Rokiño e María Kilate (Galician DJ), Cantos da Terra, Máis que Danza, Carballeira de Cercio, Randela and the group MEU make up the line-up for the Gala do Cocido to be held on Friday 21.
José Ramón Gayoso, Esther Estévez and Rafael Durán will be the presenters of the programme in which the Álvaro Cunqueiro awards will be presented. Tickets will be handed out on Tuesday 18th, from 17:00 hours, in the hall of the Town Hall The Mayor of Lalín, José Crespo, announced today three of the personalities that next Sunday 23rd February will be named Commanders of the Cocido and that will join the Order with the commitment to spread, protect and support the Feria del Cocido and the dish of the Cocido de Lalín. To the already announced Takahiro Nakamae -pregonero of the 57th Fair-, Teresa Portela and Luis López Diéguez, president of the County Council, will be added the president of the RC Celta, Marián Mouriño, and the journalists Javier Moll de Miguel and Arantza Sarasola Ormazábal, president and vice-president of the group Prensa Ibérica that publishes numerous newspapers throughout the Spanish geography, among them the dean of the Spanish press.
PRESIDENT OF RC CELTA
Marián Mouriño Terrazo is the current president of RC Celta, a Galician football team that plays in the Spanish First Division. Trained in business studies at the University of Miami (Florida, USA), she moved to Campeche for ten years where she took charge of the management of the business group GES (Grupo Energético de él Sudeste), which covers a wide range of international franchises. Since then, his life has moved between Spain and Mexico DF, depending on the demands of his business activities. In parallel to the management of the group, Marián Mouriño is also in charge of the Juan Camilo Mouriño Terrazo Foundation, an assistance institution focused on supporting economically vulnerable children. With an extensive professional career in different entities, between 2001 and 2004, she was part of the Administrative and Financial Department of Comunitel Global (Vodafone), managing the product sales launch processes at an administrative and financial level. It would be in 2005 when he started his career in RC Celta. At that time she was in charge of the Projection and Marketing Direction of the club, position that she has to leave in 2009 forced by the activity of multiple business commitments. In fact, in 2021 she became the sole administrator of the Corporate Group GES Industrial. That same year she became a member of the Board of Directors of the Círculo de Empresarios de Galicia. Always closely following the Celtic entity, she returned in 2019 to direct the cultural, training and sports macro-project GS 360 of RC Celta. Knowing the values and philosophy that the club transmits, in December 2023, Marián Mouriño becomes the first woman president of RC Celta. An appointment that made her grow in popularity crossing all borders thanks to the social mass that follows the Celtic team all over the world.
Javier Moll de Miguel (Zaragoza, 1950) is a Spanish businessman and publisher, founder and president of the Prensa Ibérica publishing group. A law graduate, in 1978 he began a well-known career with his wife, Arantza Sarasola, as a newspaper entrepreneur with the acquisition of Editorial Prensa Canaria, to which Lana Provincia and Diario de Lanas Palmas belonged. The foundation of Prensa Ibérica as a family group of regional companies dates back to 1984, the year in which the company acquired Lana Nueva España in Asturias, Levante-EMV in Valencia and Información in Alicante and began an intense process of expansion on the Iberian Peninsula. Two years later, in 1986, the media group acquired Faro de Vigo, the leading newspaper in the Spanish press. After the acquisition of Grupo Zeta in 2019, the launch of Él Periódico de España in 2021 and the more recent incorporations of newspapers such as El Correo Gallego and Él Correo de Andalucía, Prensa Ibérica became the leading regional and local press group in Spain, with 27 newspapers and 72 local Crónicas, as well as several magazines. The group's publications have two million daily readers in print (EGM) and 185,000 copies (OJD), with a solid position in digital format. On the Internet, the group's newspapers have 22 million unique users and more than 450 million page views per month. Arantza Sarasola Ormazabal (San Sebastián, 1949) is a businesswoman and founding editor of the Prensa Ibérica publishing group, together with her husband Javier Moll de Miguel. Vice-President of the company, she has a degree in tourism, a degree in geography and history, a degree in English Studies and a Master's degree in English Literature. In 1978 she began her career as a press editor with the acquisition of Editorial Prensa Canaria, to which Lana Provincia and Diario de Lanas Palmas belonged. The foundation of Prensa Ibérica as a family group of regional companies dates back to 1984, when the company acquired Lana Nueva España in Asturias, Levante-EMV in Valencia and Información in Alicante and began an intense process of expansion on the Iberian Peninsula. Two years later, in 1986, the media group acquired Faro de Vigo, the leading newspaper in the Spanish press. Newspaper publishing, to which she has devoted the last 45 years with her husband, is one of the great passions of Arantza Sarasola, a woman with an extraordinary sensitivity for cinema, painting and other cultural manifestations. The future of the Moll-Sarasola family cannot be understood without the vicissitudes experienced by Prensa Ibérica and without their faith in the press as a lever for progress.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE GALA
The preparations for the Gala del Cocido began and the assembly of all the technical equipment required for an event of this category began. Once the arena had been protected, the tents were put in place to turn the eastern part of the pavilion into a black box in which the stage is located. The assembly of the stage that will host the artists, presenters and award winners has also begun and will be similar in size to that of previous years, reaching more than 30 metres in size. At the same time, the line-up of artists for the Gala has practically been finalised, with the following performances and artists. Ana Guerra Marc Seguí Isabel Aaiún
Nebulossa (last year's Eurovision representative) David de María Lana Década Prodigiosa Él Combo Dominicano
Olympus Antonio Barros (Galician soloist) Penúltima Sabinera (Covers by Joaquín Sabina)
Rokiño y María Kilate (Galician DJ) Cantos da Terra, Máis que Danza, Carballeira de Cercio,
Randela, MEU (from Lalín) The programme will be presented by José Ramón Gayoso and Esther Estévez. And the presenter and entertainer Rafael Durán will perform the double function of entertainer, as he did last year when he got the audience excited from very early on, and presenter with interviews from backstage.
SERENO
This edition will also count with the participation of the figure of the ‘Sereno’ who closed the Aldeas de Nadal and who will keep all year long the illusions of the raptors of Lalin for Christmas. The artist Luchi Iglesias, who brings him to life, will also give life to one of the Carnival big-heads, Don Cocho, who will animate the Gala and take an active part in it. This connection will also allow to spread the Aldeas de Nadal as an attraction linked to Lalín.
