The summer festival La Lluna en Vers returns in 2026 to Mallorca with a program of 14 nights of open-air culture spread across different points of the island and an image marked by the eclipse of August 12, which this year inspires the visual and symbolic narrative of the project.

Selva Nua is a group born in Lleida at the end of 2020, just before the pandemic. Adrià Garcia and Gerard Català were looking for a singer to form a band and met Joana Jové. They quickly realized they shared inspirations and ideas, so the lockdown pushed them to get serious about recording a self-financed album. "It was a somewhat casual start, but very exciting," recalls the group's vocalist. On Saturday, August 16, they will perform in the garden of the Llorenç Villalonga House Museum in Binissalem, as part of the Mallorca Literary Foundation's festival, La Luna en Verso. Musician Pol Mitjans joined the project after Gerard Català left.

Soleá Morente, daughter of singer Enrique Morente and dancer Aurora Carbonell, will spread the flamenco spirit that runs through her veins to every corner of the Sanctuary of Consolación de San Juan. The singer will perform during the big night of the La Luna en Verso festival, on August 9, with a double concert that will also feature the artist Niño de Elche. Soleá will arrive in Mallorca with a diverse repertoire: she will perform songs by Calm sea, of What you lack and other albums, as well as some pieces from the new album SIRIUS B, due out in September. She'll be accompanied by two guitarists: Rubén Campos, a flamenco guitarist from Granada, and Gonzalo Navarro, an electric guitarist from Huelva. "It will be a night to bare your soul, in an acoustic format, with very different emotions than those that appear when we do concerts with a band," the singer notes.

If he doesn't write, he sings; if he doesn't sing, he composes; if he doesn't compose, he reads or prepares some kind of performance, who knows in what format. Paco Contreras, known artistically as Niño de Elche, is an artist who works in different fields because he doesn't know how to do it any other way: he likes experimentation, contradiction, and, above all, knowing what he wants to say: "The format comes later, but it's important to know the message." On Saturday, August 9, he will be at the Santuario de Consolación de San Juan, along with Soleá Morente, during the great flamenco night of the Fundación Mallorca Literaria's La Luna en Verso festival. He's not presenting any album: he'll give a concert that will have two parts. "The first will be more focused on guitars, with a sound close to flamenco rock and progressive rock. The second part will be a session based on all the music I've developed from radishes, industrial music, and machine music."

The Consolació de Sant Joan mountain will be the stage from which the Murcian brothers who form the group Maestro Espada will showcase everything they've learned from Murcian folklore to make their eponymous album, released last September. After three years of working with Raül Refree and many vibrant reunions, they have worked with intuition and learning from experts in traditional music. The album is forged with the roots of the orchard where Àlex and Víctor Hernández grew up, and with the avant-garde that emerges from error and experimentation. On Friday, July 11, they arrive in Mallorca with Luna en Verso, the festival of the Mallorca Literary Foundation. We spoke with Àlex about the project and the new horizons that discovering his town's folklore has opened up for them.