Candlelight concerts in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Candlelight is Fever’s own concert format, and in Las Palmas it has one home: the Gabinete Literario on Plaza de Cairasco, in the Triana district. A string quartet plays the music of one composer, band or theme in an hour without an interval. Most programmes are tributes, and Fever says on the listings that they are not linked to or sponsored by the artist. The line-up on 10 November 2026 runs from Queen vs. ABBA, Hans Zimmer and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to Coldplay and Ed Sheeran, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Phil Collins and Adele, with Spanish programmes for Leiva and Joan Manuel Serrat.

The evening starts at the door. Doors open 45 or 60 minutes before the concert, depending on the listing, and close 5 minutes before it starts; nobody is let in afterwards. Seats are not numbered. You buy Zone A, B or C, and staff seat you within it in order of arrival, so friends should arrive together. The candles are LED, Fever says, so there is no flame or heat. Concerts begin at 19:30 or 21:30 and last about 60 minutes. Phones stay on silent, and photos and video without flash are allowed only during the last piece.

The Queen vs. ABBA set runs through Dancing Queen, SOS, Money, Money, Money, Bohemian Rhapsody, I Want to Break Free, Waterloo, Mamma Mia, Don’t Stop Me Now, We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions. The Hans Zimmer programme goes from Time (Inception) and This Land (The Lion King) to Cornfield Chase (Interstellar) and suites from Dune and Gladiator. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is played complete, with La Folia to close.

The building is half the reason to go. The Gabinete Literario is a society founded in 1844, in a theatre built on the site of a former convent and remade towards the end of the 19th century, with a modernist front by Fernando Navarro and Rafael Massanet. Fever names the Salón Dorado, the old ballroom on the first floor, as the room on its Vivaldi and 80s listings, and says the salons hold up to 250 people.

The one we would book first is Queen vs. ABBA: on Fever on 10 November 2026 it was the best-rated of the three Las Palmas programmes with more than 100 reviews, 4.78 from 378, and it has seats on 9 December 2026 at 19:30, in Zones B and A from 36.22 euros with fee (Zone C had gone). Sessions are on sale to 11 March 2027, and Fever’s from price of 19 euros, 19.95 with fee, applies to later dates. Hans Zimmer is the safest second choice, with the most reviews, 4.68 from 742, on 14 January and 12 March 2027 at 19:30 from 26.25 and 19.95 euros in Zone C. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons holds 4.68 from 404 and is the classical choice, on 2 December 2026 at 21:30 and 5 February 2027 at 19:30.

This is an evening for the three hotels in the city. Hotel Veintiuno is a 7-minute walk away, Santa Catalina, a Royal Hideaway Hotel is 5 minutes by taxi and Bull Reina Isabel & Spa 7. From the south the sums are different: 56 to 60 km and 46 to 49 minutes without traffic from Maspalomas, Meloneras and Salobre, and 74 km and 58 minutes from Hotel Cordial Mogán Playa, so a 60-minute concert means about two hours in a car. If you are staying south, make a day of it: our walk through Vegueta and Triana, with a tapa stop, starts close by.

On zones: Fever prices them by view and closeness to the stage, and Zone C costs less than half of Zone A on the cheapest dates (19.95 against 40.95 euros with fee). Nearer dates cost more, so Zone B is the value pick when Zone C has gone or costs 26.25.