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

 

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.

 

BCNWeek interviewed this guy and discovered this gem: "Lawrence Hayward has penned heaps of perfect pop songs, and yet none of his bands – Felt, Denim, and the latest, Go Kart Mozart – has ever delivered a massive crossover hit. According to Lawrence, this is due to two things: his unfailing ability to never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity and simple bad luck. This is his first concert in Barcelona EVER."

 

With the 2007 disc "A Little More Blue", we discovered a new side to Portuguese actress and director María de Medeiros. The performing talent that she had demonstrated in numerous theatre and film productions – "Pulp Fiction", "Henry & June", "Huevos de Oro", "Airbag"- was placed at the service of music to pay tribute to Brazilian artists of the likes of Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, who faced the military dictatorship in their country on the basis of poetic genius and a spirit of resistance. Thanks to this debut album, Medeiros travelled throughout Europe, South America and Africa leading a splendid jazz trio and was able to collaborate with musicians in the countries she visited and discover new repertoires. It is from these encounters that the singer’s second album, "Penínsulas & Continentes", is born, a musical journey highlighting the exchanges and links that there have been between the three continents throughout history. This work shows how the distance between the poem of a mediaeval troubadour, an Angolan lament in Kimbundo and a song by the brilliant Chilean poet Victor Jara is not so great as might seem at first glance.

 

Welcome to some of our obsessions... says the aBoca guys. One of the main premises was to emphasize the manic nature of the five traumas. Thus the overall introspective tone is occasionally broken with absurd and often humorous situations.

 

 

Don't know how they are all gonna fit on the tiny Marula stage...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rehearsals of the OBC. Pupils can attend part of the rehearsals of the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. This is an activity in three parts: thirty minutes of initial explanation, approximately forty-five minutes of attendance at the rehearsal and fifteen minutes of final comments. The programme and the duration of the rehearsal may be modified depending on the conducting, and it is not possible to guarantee the presence of soloists and/or choirs on the day of the rehearsal.