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.

 

It started with one lifer (Svenonius) and grew to include a gang of small time bandits. How do they describe their sound? Something they just found. They dug it up from the ground. Essential to that soil: guitar, drums, organ, saxophone and chants; paying off our collective debt to the universe. There are songs with a driving locomotive engine (“Reparations,” “Interview with the Chain Gang”), a full-on choir of the disenfranchised (“Cemetery Map,” “Deathbed Confession,” Trash Talk”) and disentangled, soul-influenced invitations to a celebration (“Room 19” and “Unpronounceable Name”)

 

 

 

Debate in English about Catalan nationalism, and more. Run by the Barcelona Metropolitan magazine, the blurb goes as follows: "Two representatives of Catalan political parties will explain their parties' positions on the proposed new version of the estatut and Catalan nationalism. Nito Foncuberta of Ciutadans (C's), which is opposed to Catalan nationalism, and Marta Rovira from Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, which supports it, will be joined by native English speakers and long-time Barcelona residents, Charles Ablett, a scholar of Catalan history who isn't in favour of local nationalism, and Erik Jeffries, who owns a business here and supports Catalan nationalism. Each speaker will have 10 minutes, then the floor will be opened to questions from the audience. The forum will be moderated by Richard Schweid, a founding editor of Barcelona Metropolitan."

 

British artist, with a degree for the Fine Arts of England, and a master in Fine Arts of Europe. Set-up in Barcelona where he has explored his artistic talents.

 

 

The mythical Café Vienés in the five star Hotel Casa Fuster, a national monument, has made itself a reference point for blues and jazz sessions throughout the Barcelona spring and summer months. The night has become known as "Café Vienés Jazz Club".