Nits de Tànit: two concerts at the foot of Dalt Vila for ten euros
Two things about the last week of August in Ibiza are usually true at once: the island is at its fullest, and almost nothing worth seeing costs less than a hundred euros. The Nits de Tànit festival is the exception, and this year it has two nights that are worth planning a day around.
Rodrigo Cuevas plays on Friday 28 August. Valeria Castro plays on Sunday 30 August. Both start at 22:00, both on the open ground beside the former military headquarters at the foot of Dalt Vila, and both are run by the Consell d'Eivissa as part of the festival's twelfth edition.
The tickets, and the catch
Fifty extra advance tickets per concert went on sale at ten euros through the island's own ticket site, and fifty more per night are held back for the box office on the day at fifteen euros. That is the whole allocation on release — this is a small venue and it sells out, so the advance batch is the one to chase.
There is also a free minibus from Multicines Eivissa, leaving between 19:30 and 21:30. Take it. Parking below Dalt Vila in late August is a sport for people who enjoy losing.
Who is playing
Rodrigo Cuevas brings La belleza. He won Spain's National Award for Contemporary Music in 2023, and what he does is hard to file: Asturian folklore pulled through electronic production, cabaret staging, comic timing and a fairly sharp line in social commentary. It is a show, not a set — closer to theatre than to a support slot.
Valeria Castro brings songs from El cuerpo después de todo. She is one of the clearest new voices in Spanish-language songwriting, an Ondas winner in 2025, and the show is the opposite of the first one: quiet, plainly sung, and built to be heard rather than watched.
Booking both is not a contradiction. Sequencing them across a weekend is a good way to hear where Spanish music currently sits.
Building the evening around it
Doors at ten leaves the whole day free, and the venue does the planning for you: it sits directly under the old town, so everything in Dalt Vila is a walk away.
- Late afternoon. The walls face west and hold the light for an hour after the streets go into shade. A golden-hour photography tour of Dalt Vila puts you on the good side of them at the right time.
- Before dinner. A walking tour of the old town is the fastest way to stop seeing Dalt Vila as a pretty hill and start seeing what it was built to survive.
- Dinner. Eat inside the walls before nine or you will be eating after midnight. The tapas night route through Ibiza Town is timed to end where the walk up begins.
If the two dates do not fit your week
The rest of the island's live music in late August splits between things that cost a great deal and things that happen in someone's garden. Two of the second kind: an evening of jazz and wine in a country garden, and a flamenco night at a traditional finca — not an Ibizan tradition, strictly speaking, but performed by people who take it seriously and sized for a room rather than an arena.
Practical
- Where: the open ground beside the former military headquarters, at the foot of Dalt Vila, Ibiza Town.
- When: 28 and 30 August, 22:00.
- Price: ten euros in advance online, fifteen at the box office on the night.
- Transport: free minibus from Multicines Eivissa, 19:30–21:30.
- Bring: something with sleeves. The site is open and the sea breeze arrives around midnight even in August.