Tradicionàrius. Annual local folk festival. Well considered, with a strong emphasis on Catalan traditional music.

 

Annual Irish-themed festival for expats and locals alike which always features a few interesting musical acts. In previous years Kila, John Spillane, Dublin Workingman's Band, Garrett Wall and more have performed.

 

This is the tenth year of this festival focussing heavily on all things flamenco. De Cajón forms part of an association of flamenco festivals, along with the Festival of Jerez, the Malaga Festival and Flamenco Festival Caja Madrid.

 

A long-running festival which takes place in some of Barcelona's finest music venues, bringing some of the most famous exponents of guitar playing in the world to our doorstep. A welcome annual event. 2010 is the 21st edition.

 

Musically Florence and the Machine's sound is generally referred to as soul-inspired indie rock. Florence and the Machine's music has received praise across the music media, especially from the BBC who played a large part in Florence and the Machine's rise to prominence by promoting her as part of BBC Introducing.

 

THE NEXT BIG THING ??? The Scottish know a thing or two about stand-up comedy. Stereotypically more renowned for transvestite tendencies, having the worst diet than anyone on the planet, even the starving, the worst musical instrument in the world, beautiful women, the world's worst football league, eating deep fried bagpipes dipped in heroin whilst drinking the average European poof not just under the table but deeper, close to Australia. Not to mention a climate that forces the cattle to become hippies and refuse to cut their hair. Oh and thanks for the Banks!!!! Comedy is, lets say, in the genes.

 

 

This young chamber line-up has been winning fans since it debuted in France in 2002. At the Auditori, we will be able to enjoy one of its specialities, Latin American music, with a programme that often conveys us to traditional dances as backdrops and which also features the new introspective music of Jordi Cervelló, whose 75th birthday we will be celebrating.

 

 

 

 

 

Combining the melodic jangle of post-Smiths indie guitar pop with the lilting, trance-inducing sonic textures of late-’80s dream pop and adding a slight Celtic tint, the Cranberries became one of the more successful groups to emerge from the pre-Britpop U.K. indie scene of the early ’90s. Led by vocalist Dolores O’Riordan, whose keening, powerful voice is the most distinctive element of the group’s sound, the group initially made little impact in the United Kingdom. It wasn’t until the lush ballad "Linger" became an American hit in 1993 that the band also achieved mass success in the U.K. Following the success of "Linger," the Cranberries quickly became international stars, as both their 1993 debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, and its 1994 follow-up, No Need to Argue, sold millions of copies and produced a string of hit singles. By the time of their third album, 1996’s To the Faithful Departed, the group had added distorted guitars to its sonic palette and attempted to make more socially significant music, which resulted in a downturn in the band’s commercial fortunes. Originally, the Cranberries were a band called the Cranberry Saw Us. Brothers Noel and Mike Hogan (guitar and bass, respectively) formed the band in Limerick, Ireland, with drummer Fergal Lawler in 1990.