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Motörhead - The World Is Yours

To coincide with the release of their upcoming 20th studio album, The World Is Yours, Motörhead will embark on a UK tour in November 2010 and on a European tour in December 2010, being on stage in Barcelona on December 17 in the Sant Jordi Club concert stage.
The British  group Motörhead is a rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Ian Fraser Kilmister (the only  constant member of the band) , known mostly by his stage name Lemmy. The rock/heavy-metal band,  usually a power trio, had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Top chart and the albums Overkill, Bomber, Ace of Spades, and particularly No Sleep 'til Hammersmith cemented Motörhead's rock reputation.
The sound of Motörhead is typically classified as heavy metal, even though, Lemmy dislikes the label, preferring to describe the band's music simply as "rock n' roll" and usually opening live shows with the line "We are Motörhead; We play rock and roll". Motörhead's approach has remained the same over the band's career with their appreciation of early rock and roll and the lyrics cover current topics as war, good versus evil, abuse of power, promiscuous sex, substance abuse, and "life on the road"
Motörhead current members of the band are Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister / vocals, bass, Phil Campbell / guitar, backing vocals and Mikkey Dee / drums, percussion.
Motörhead  will be in Barcelona in the Sant Jordi Club, a medium size concert space opened in 2007 equipped with the very latest light and sound equipment, used for concerts of small or medium capacity that can accommodate up to 3.000 people, that forms part of the Palau Sant Jordi Sports Arena complex on the Montjuic Mountain right next to the Olympic Stadium.

Lady Gaga - The Monster Ball Tour

The Monster Ball Tour is the second worldwide concert tour by Lady Gaga in support of her second studio album, The Fame Monster. The Monster Ball Tour began November 27, 2009, four days after the release of The Fame Monster album, and a month later that her previous concert Tour with rapper Kanye West, titled Fame Kills, was suddenly canceled.
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born in New York in March 1986) is an American recording artist, better known by her stage name Lady Gaga. She began performing in the Lower East Side rock music scene of New York City's in 2003 and enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. During her early time, at Interscope Records, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists.  Her vocal abilities captured the attention of Akon (Aliaune Badara Akon Thiam) Senegalese-American R&B singer-songwriter, rapper, business man and record producer who signed her to his own label, Kon Live Distribution. Lady Gaga debut album, The Fame, released on August 2008, reached number one in the UK, Canada, Austria, Germany and Ireland, and she won the award for "Best New Artist", while her single "Paparazzi" won two awards for "Best Art Direction" and "Best Special Effects in the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
The Monster Ball Tour show is divided into five segments with the last one being the encore. Each segment featured Gaga in a new dress and was followed by a video interlude, portraying Gaga in Gothic and artsy poses, to the next one.
Gaga has been influenced by glam rock artists such as David Bowie and Queen (The Queen song "Radio Ga Ga" inspired her stage name, "Lady Gaga"[) as well as pop music artists such as Madonna, Britney Spears and Michael Jackson and has also stated fashion is a source of inspiration for her songwriting and performances, considering Donatella Versace her muse. Lady Gaga has her own creative production team (that creates many of her clothes, stage props, and hairdos) called the Haus of Gaga, which she handles personally.
The Monster Ball Tour is dated to end on May of 2011 after a total of 181 shows through North America, Europe, Oceania and Asia. Lady Gaga will be on stage at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona on December 7, 2010.

Shakira Live in Concert - Barcelona

Shakira Live In Concert, the Tour of Earthly Delights, is the fifth concert tour by Colombian singer-songwriter, Shakira. The tour is in support of her sixth and seventh studio albums, She Wolf, due out in October 2009, and Sale El Sol, that will be released on October 2010. The tour starts on September 15, 2010, in Canada, continues with several concerts in the United States and arrives to Europe in November being in Barcelona on November 24th at the Palau Sant Jordi.
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, known professionally as Shakira, is a Colombian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist who emerged in the music scene of Latin America in the early 1990s. She was  born February 1977 and raised in her hometown of Barranquilla where she  revealed many of her talents in school as a live performer, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Middle Eastern influences and her own original twist on belly dancing.
Shakira is the only artist from South America to reach the number-one spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, the Australian ARIA chart, and the UK Singles Chart, and she has already won two Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammy Awards, twelve Billboard Latin Music Awards and has been Golden Globe-nominated.
This year Shakira has also released, on May 11, the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)", featuring South African group Freshlyground, both performing  at the 2010 FIFA World Cup Kick-Off concert in Soweto on June 10 and at the final on July 11.
Through her successfully career she has also developed a philanthropic and humanitarian work founding in 1995 the Pies Descalzos Foundation, a Colombian charity with special schools for poor children all around her country, performing also at a large number of benefit concerts and  that also been designed as an International UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Recital Jonas Kaufmann at the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona

The German tenor Jonas Kaufmann accompanied on the piano by Helmut Deutsch will give a recital in The Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona on October 10 with songs by Richard Strauss, Franz Schubert and others.
After his notable successful debut in the 99th Bayreuth Festival in August 2010 on the role of Wagner’s Lohengrin, staged by Hans Neuenfels and conducted by Andris Nelsons, and before coming to Barcelona he will be playing the role of Maurizio in Francesco Cilea’s Adraina Lecouvreur at the German Opera of Berlin in a concert performance and the song cycle, from Franz Schubert, Die schöne Müllerin accompanied on the piano by Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper unter den Linden of Berlin.
Jonas Kaufmann, born in Munich in 1969, began his professional career at Staatstheater Saarbrücken in 1994 and was soon invited to make debuts in other German theaters, such as the Stuttgart Opera and Hamburg State Opera, as well as international debuts at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opéra National de Paris, and La Scala de Milano. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1999 in a new production of Busoni's Doktor Faust and returned to the festival in 2003 as Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail and for concerts of the Beethoven's Ninth with the Berlin Philharmonic. He performed in the Covent Garden in 2006/2007 the role of Don José in Bizet's Carmen to critical acclaim, and the role of Alfredo in La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera and the Covent Garden in 2008, together with his role debut as Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca in Covent Garden. He has already played different roles like Tamino of a new production of The Magic Flute in February 2007 in Zurich, Florestan in a new production of Fidelio at the Opera Garnier in Paris, Des Grieux (Manon) in Vienna, Verdi's Messa da Requiem followed under Daniel Barenboim in Paris and Milan or his role debut as Massenet's Werther at the Opera Bastille in Paris.
Jonas Kaufmann is, after a long wait, a German singer that can sing the song sheets of a Lohengrin and Walther von Stolzing as beautiful with the sustained lyricism of Verdi and Puccini. Wagner's ideal of a connection between German depth of expression and Italian vocal culture. Kaufman is a tenor with a seductive-voice that has the color (darker) of a baritone mixed with bright trebles that can handle a wide vocal range, from quiet, intimate tone to the dramatic eruption of the lyrical intimacy of Prince Tamino on the tone of a heroic Siegmund to the painful incarnation of Parsifal.

Manuel González - Mestres de la Guitarra Espanyola

Within the 2010 Concert Season Masters of the Spanish Guitar (Mestres de la Guitarra Espanyola) Manuel González presents a very interesting program formed by different pieces from some very well known Spanish Composers such as Joaquin Rodrigo (Aranjuez ma pensée), Isaac Albeniz (Asturias and Sevilla from the Suite Espanyola), Ferran Sor (Introducció, tema i variació, op. 9), Francesc Tarrega (Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Gran Jota Aragonesa) and Gaspar Sanz with arrangements by himself (Fantasia Española).
Manuel González is a guitarist, born in Barcelona, considered worldwide one of the best classical guitar performers of today and one of the leading specialists of Spanish music in the world.
Organized by Poema SL (Produccion y Organizacion de Espectáculos Musicales y Artisticos) the Concert Season takes place in some important architectural and historic landmarks venues of Barcelona like the Capella de la Sang or the Crypt of the Basilica Santa Maria del Pi (Gothic Church from the 14th Century) or the Sant Jaume Church (on the former site of a synagogue) together with the magnificent Modernist Concert Hall the Palau de la Musica Catalana (declared Unesco Cultural World Heritage in 1997).
Manuel Gonzalez future concerts at the Palau de la Musica Catalana will take place on September 4th, 11th, 18th and 28th, October 1st, 9th and 22nd and November 10th. For more information visit the Palau de la Musica website.

Michael Bublé - Crazy Love Tour

Michael Bublé will start on September 24 in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin the second group  of the European concerts of his Crazy Love World Tour and will be in Barcelona at the Palau Sant Jordi on October 30, 2010, and in Madrid at the Palacio de Deportes on October 31 in the two only concerts he will give in Spain.
Michael Steven Bublé was born in 9 September 1975, and is a Canadian singer, actor and songwriter. He has won several awards, including two Grammy Awards (2008 for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album – Call me Irresponsible and in 2010, the Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden  DVD for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album multiple) several Juno Awards, a World Music Award in 2005, and others Awards together with many more nominations including several nominations for the Brit Awards.
Michael Bublé, the singer's debut album, was released on February 2003 featuring a range of standards from various eras including "Fever", "The Way You Look Tonight", "For Once in My Life", "Moondance" and "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine", and the album reached the top ten in the UK and Canada. Bublé's second studio album, It's Time, was released on February 2005, and included other standards like "You Don’t Know Me", "Feeling Good", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Save the Last Dance for Me", "Song for You", and "Quando, Quando, Quando" (a duet with Canadian pop singer Nelly Furtado and included also an original track, "Home", co-written by Bublé, his musical director Alan Chang, and Amy Foster-Gilles. Bublé's third studio album, Call Me Irresponsible, was released on May 2007 included new songs from different eras such as Always On My Mind, Dream, I've Got The World On A String, and Comin' Home Baby (a duet with Boyz II Men). Everything". "Me and Mrs. Jones. The fourth studio album, Crazy Love, was released on October 2009. The album contains 12 tracks (and 1 bonus track), including two original songs co-written by Bublé, "Haven't Met You Yet" and "Hold On".Most of the tracks off the album were recorded live because Bublé did not want his album to sound overproduced and slick.
Michael Bublé has been described as having a vocal style similar to that of Frank Sinatra even as being an heir to Sinatra.

Guns N'Roses - Democracy World Tour

Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy Tour is the current concert tour to promote the group's long-delayed album Chinese Democracy. The tour first leg in 2001featuring three U.S. dates and a Brazilian one, while the 2002 tour included Asian, North American and a few European dates. The third leg did not start until May 2006, when it toured North America again and performed a major tour of Europe. The band's tour continued in 2007 with shows in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Mexico and their first show after the release of Chinese Democracy (Nov 23, 2008) was held on Dec  2009 in Taiwan. For the remaining of 2009 they also played South Korea for the first time, as well as two dates in Japan. The tour continues throughout 2010 with concerts in Canada, South/Central America, Europe and Australia.
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in 1985. Led by front man and co-founder lead vocalist  Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose, Jr.), the band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album while going through numerous line-up changes and controversies since its formation. The current lineup comprises Axl Rose, lead guitarists Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal and DJ Ashba, rhythm guitarist Richard Fortus, bassist Tommy Stinson, keyboardists Dizzy Reed and Chris Pitman and drummer Frank Ferrer.
The band will give 4 concerts in Spain in Madrid at the Palacio Vista Alegre, in Bilbao at the Anoeta Stadium, in Zaragoza at the Pabellon Principe Felipe and in Barcelona on October 14th at the Pavello Olimpic de Badalona.

Peter Gabriel - New Blood Tour

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950  Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter, soundtrack composer and innovator in visual presentation of music, music videos and digital methods of recording and distributing music. He became popular being the lead singer and flautist of the  rock band Genesis. Gabriel founded Genesis in 1967 with fellow Charterhouse School pupils Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, and drummer Chris Stewart..
After several years of success of the band Gabriel's departure from Genesis was the result of different factors, but mainly his stature as the lead singer, and the added attention garnered by his flamboyant stage persona, led to tensions within the group as Genesis had always operated more or less as a collective.
After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. He published his first four solo albums (77-85) refusing to title any, and all were labelled Peter Gabriel, but his greatest popularity was achieved with the songs from the 1986 album called So.
In 1989, Gabriel released Passion, (soundtrack for Scorsese's movie The Last Temptation of Christ). For this work he received his first Grammy Award. He won two other Grammy Award  in 93 and 94  for the videos "Digging in the Dirt" and "Steam" respectively, and a fourth in 1996  for Best Long Form Music Video for his Secret World Live video. In 2008, Gabriel contributed to the WALL-E soundtrack with several new songs.
In February 2010 Peter Gabriel released his eighth solo album Scratch My Back. The album is made up entirely of cover songs including material written by David Bowie, Paul Simon , Lou Reed,  Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Neil Young,  Randy Newman and more. The concept for the record is that Gabriel covers songs by various artists and those artists in turn will cover Gabriel songs to be released on a future follow-up album called I'll Scratch Yours.
The New Blood Tour supports Gabriel’s album Scratch My Back and features only a 54-piece orchestra as the album has only orchestral instrumentation with no guitars, drums, or electronic elements that are usual attributes of Gabriel records.  The tour started in Paris March 22 going after to Berlin, London,  Montreal's Bell Centre, two concerts May 2 and 3 at the New York's Radio City,  and in May 7  at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.  Peter Gabriel with the New Blood Tour will be in Barcelona at the Palau Sant Jordi on September 29.

Supertramp - The 70-10 Tour

To celebrate 40 years in the business, since the release in 1970 of their first album “Supertramp”, Rick Davies and some of the members of group are back on stage with their European 70-10 Tour.
Supertramp, a British progressive rock band, released a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1969, Roger Hodgson, joined Rick Davies in the formation of the group with other members including Richard Palmer (guitar, balalaika, vocals) and Robert Millar (percussion, harmonica). Initially, Roger Hodgson sang and played bass guitar (and, on the side, guitar, cello and flageolet). The band was called Daddy from August 1969 to January 1970, and before releasing their first album the name was changed to Supertramp.
This 70-10 Tour tour will begin on September 2, 2010 in Halle, Germany and will include thirty-five shows in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, England and Ireland.
Joining one of Supertramp’s founders, lead singer and keyboardist, Rick Davies, are other members of the band, John Anthony Helliwell, saxophones and woodwinds, and Bob Siebenberg, drums. Veterans of past Supertramp tours, Jesse Siebenberg, lead vocals, guitars and percussion, Cliff Hugo, bass, Carl Verheyen, guitars and Lee Thornburg, horns, will round out the lineup. Co-founder and composer Roger Hodgson will not participate.
The band will be presenting the Supertramp 70-10 Tour in Barcelona at the Palau Sant Jordi on September 18.

Roxy Music at Sonar 2010

The English group Roxy Music will be performing in Barcelona during the Sonar 2010 Festival. The group formed in 1971 by art school graduate Bryan Ferry, the group's vocalist and chief songwriter, Phil Manzanera on the guitars, Andy Mackay playing saxophone and oboe, Paul Thompson on the drums and percussion  and Brian Eno with the synthesizer and "treatments" attained popular and critical success in the UK and Europe during the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1983 Ferry dissolved the band and they devoted themselves to their solo careers.
In 2001 Ferry, Manzanera, Mackay, and Thompson reunited to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band and toured extensively for 2 years. Since then they have given several concerts and toured also in Europe to places they had never visited before. The Barcelona Sonar concert will be the only concert in Spain and it will happen nearly after three decades of their last show in Barcelona.
For more information on Sonar Festival visit the Sonar Festival website

Aerosmith in Barcelona

Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock Tour 2010
The rock band Aerosmith will be in the Palau Sant Jordi of Barcelona on Sunday June 27 for the only concert that the band will perform in Spain. The rock band is celebrating the 40 years of the group, and in this concert they will review their entire career with their best hits like 'Dream On' and 'Sweet Emotion'.
Aerosmith is an American hard rock band many times  referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston” which through the years has gone from their roots blues-based hard rock mixing with elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues. Through their long life as a band they has inspired many rock artists that have appeared later.
The band was formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970 by Guitarist Joe Perry and bassist Tom Hamilton together  with singer Steven Tyler, drummer Joey Kramer, and guitarist Ray Tabano. In 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford.
They have released a string of multi-platinum albums, beginning with their 1973 eponymous debut album. Aerosmith has become the best-selling American rock band of all time having sold 66.5 million albums in the United States and more than 150 million albums worldwide. The band has hold the record for the most gold and multi-platinum albums by an American group.

Sebastian Cruz-Raul Cantizano

The young voice of Sebastian Cruz will be singing in Barcelona accompanied on the guitar by Raul Cantizano in a Concert organized by the Sociedad Flamenca Barcelonesa El Dorado on April 15.
Sebastian Cruz Marquez, born in 1977 in Beas, province of Huelva, is a singer from family tradition. Since he was 12 years he has been singing in parties, clubs and festivals and he was   awarded with a scholarship from the Cristina Herdeen Foundation where he could receive lessons from maestros in the Flamenco art like José de La Tomasa, Calixto Sánchez, Paco Taranto o Esperanza Fernández. In 2003 he started his solo career at the same time that he kept collaborating in Tablaos Flamencos and  in these last two years he has been guest vocalist singer (cantaor) on the National Ballet of Spain and also active with his concerts in Peñas de Andalucia. He is currently preparing his first record.
Raul Cantizano is an atypical Flamenco guitarist as before playing flamenco he got a Bachelor of Fine Arts on Sculpture by the University of Seville in 1999, and after several years of study and research in the field of experimental music he gets into flamenco through a grant from the Fundación Cristina Heeren de Arte Flamenco in 2000. Since then he is usually playing in tablaos in Seville and has participated in several festivals and Flamenco Peñas throughout Spain and has also played in different festivals in many countries like USA, Turkey, Holland, France, England, Japan and Portugal.
The Sociedad Flamenca Barcelonesa El Dorado is a cultural association with the aim to implement a permanent space to spread the Flamenco Art in Barcelona, with a wide program of activities and cultural events that cover various aspects: Flamenco concerts, lectures, films, exhibitions and workshops, so as to contribute to the dissemination and knowledge of the Flamenco Art.
The concert will take place in the New Municipal Complex Centre Civic Parc-Sandaru in 21 Buenaventura Muñoz street corner with Napols.

Pat Metheny, The Orchestrion Tour

Pat Metheny will open then 21 Guitar Festival of Barcelona, on Febrary 21 in L'Auditori, presenting his new project, entitled Orchestrion, in which he develops a new idea: the "solo ensemble”. Metheny alone on stage offers a very special journey with a new technology developed through the work of a complete year, and that forms part of his last album, recorded in this format.
The Orchestrion Project is a leap into new territory. This project represents a recently developed conceptual direction that involves the merging of an idea from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries with the technologies of today to create an open-ended platform for musical invention and performance.  "Orchestrionics" is the term that Metheny uses to describe a new performance method to present music alone onstage using acoustic and acoustic-electric musical instruments that are mechanically controlled using the power of modern technology.  The principle instruments, a large palette of acoustic sound-producing devices, have been designed and built to enable Pat Metheny to create his solo Orchestrion.

Eros Ramazzotti returns to Barcelona

Presenting his last studio album Ali e Radici Eros Ramazzotti will be in the Palau Sant Jordi on February 15th after his concert in Madrid on February 13th. Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti (born on October 28, 1963), known simply as Eros Ramazzotti, is an Italian singer and songwriter and one of the most popular artists in Italy and not only well known in most non English-speaking European countries but also in most of the Spanish-speaking countries as he has released most of his albums in both Italian and Spanish.
In this world tour that will take Eros Ramazzotti throughout Europe and America he will present this last album, recorded in Los Angeles with first-rate musicians as drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and guitarist Mike Landau. After the silence of four years Ali e Radici is the 11th studio album of Eros and contains 11 new songs. Through the tour will be accompanied on stage by great musicians: Claudio Guidetti (guitars), Michael Landau (guitars), Gary Novak (drums), Reggie Hamilton (bass), Everette Harp (winds), Nicola Peruch (keyboards), Luca Scarpa (piano and keyboards), Vergati Chiara (vocals), Sarah Bellantoni (vocals), Romina Falconi (vocals). The songs of this album have been produced by Eros Ramazzotti and Claudio Guidetti and composed Adelio Cogliati (letters) and Guidetti and Eros (music). Six themes have as co-producer Michele Canova (producer and collaborator Tiziano Ferro Laura Pausini). Paul Buckmaster (producer of classic albums by Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis and David Bowie, among others) has written the song arrangements L'Orizzonte and has arranged and conducted the orchestra in other subjects. David Rossi (arranger of strings of Viva la Vida by Coldplay), has also collaborated on some songs on the album.
In the past 25 years, Eros Ramazzotti has sold worldwide over 50 million copies of the various albums he has published. Thorug the years the Italian star has done duets with several prestigious artists such as Cher, Tina Turner, Andrea Bocelli, Patsy Kensit, Anastacia, Joe Cocker, Luciano Pavarotti, Laura Pausini, and Ricky Martin. 

Soweto Gospel Choir

Within the Barcelona Gospel Festival, Els Grans Del Gospel, in its 11th edition the Soweto Gospel Choir will be performing in Barcelona on the 17th of December in the Palau de la Musica Catalana.
Formed in November of 2002, by promoters/presenters Andrew Kay, David Vigo and Clifford Hocking, in association with Executive Producer/Director Beverly Bryer and Musical Director David Mulovhedzi, Soweto Gospel Choir’s has achieved already several major music awards, in between others two Grammy Awards in different years, a Helpmann Award, Australia’s prestigious Performing Arts Award or the American Gospel Music Award for “Best Choir”.
Thei voices have accompanied all major developments in the recent history of South Africa and even more they have been the first South African group that performed at the Oscars. They play strong African music with an explosion of rhythm and color, strength and vitality.
Their music celebrates African Gospel music in a truly inspirational way, magically combining the earthy sounds of their percussion and the wondrous harmony of their a cappella voices.

Madonna - Sticky & Sweet Tour

Madonna is back to Barcelona with the Sticky & Sweet Tour. Is the eighth concert tour by this American singer and songwriter to support her eleventh studio album Hard Candy.
THE TOUR that started in August 23 of 2008 and was a major success in 2008, and it’s Madonna's first major venture from her new recording and business deal with Live Nation, following the Hard Candy Promo Tour. The tour gained many achievements in 2008, including becoming the highest grossing tour by a solo artist, breaking the previous record that she had achieved with her 2006 Confessions Tour.
During August and September 2008 the tour was in Europe in cities like Berlin, Zurich, Amsterdam, Rome, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna and up to 16 cities with record sellouts like On September 11, 2008, Madonna performed to a sell-out crowd of over 74,000 fans and a gross of over $12 million USD and surpassed all previous grosses at both the old and the new Wembley Stadiums.
During October and November of 2008 the tour went to North America visiting among others New York, Boston, Montreal, Chicago, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Las vegans, Atlanta, Miami and Mexico City.
On December 2008 the tour moved to South America visiting, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, with several concerts in each city.
After a break the tour is back in Europe this July and August starting in London on July 4 and visiting more than 20 other European cities being in Barcelona on July 21 at the Olympic Stadium and Madrid July 23 at the Vicente Calderon Stadium together with other cities like Prague, Marseille, Helsinki or Warsaw.

U2 - 360 degrees Tour

The U2 360° Tour will visit 14 cities across Europe including dates in Barcelona, Milan, Paris, Nice, Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, Gothenburg, Gelsenkirchen, Chorzow, Zagreb, London, Sheffield and Glasgow before finishing at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on August 22.
U2 will open the tour with two concerts,  June 30 (sold out) and July 2, In Barcelona at the Camp Nou featuring an innovative stage design for fans to enjoy the show from every angle. The U2 360º tour is sponsored by Blackberry and it is the first stadium concert since the Vertigo Tour in 2005/06. The tour follows the release of their last album, No Line On The Horizon, their 12th studio album, already number 1 in the UK, Ireland, France and Germany and with many other charts to be announced.
U2 show director Willie Williams has worked again with architect Mar Fisher (ZooTV, PopMart, Elevation and Vertigo), to create a 360 degrees stage which affords an unobstructed view for the audience. It is the first time a band has toured in stadiums with such original structure.
The European tour will be followed by dates in North America beginning at Chicago's Soldier Field on September 12th, 2009.

JOAN MANUEL SERRAT

Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa is a Catalan singer-songwriter, born in December 27 of 1943 in Barcelona,
Considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both the Spanish and Catalan languages, Joan Manuel Serrat started singing only in Catalan and after he had established him as one of the most important artists inside the Nova cançó movement in Catalonia, he opened also to sing in Spanish. He became involved with music at the age of 17, when he got his first guitar, to which he dedicates one of his earliest songs, "Una guitarra."
In 1965, while singing in a radio show called Radioscope, host Salvador Escamilla helped him secure a record deal with local label Edigsa, where he recorded his first LP, as well as joning the band Els Setze Jutges.
In 1969, Serrat released an album that brought him immediate fame in all Spain,singing in Spanish containing songs with texts of Antonio Machado, a well known poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98, born in Seville. His decision to sing in Spanish was severely criticized in some nationalistic Catalan circles.
Joan Manuel Serrat's first live stage performance at the Palau de la Música Catalana was in 1967. After celebrating his 65 birthday on December 27 of 2008 Joan Manuel Serrat is back once more at the Palau with the tickets sold out, for an only concert (for the moment) on February 11, with the same expectation as ever.

JOAN MANUEL SERRAT , Palau de la Música Catalana, February 2009

Queen + Paul Rodgers

The new Tour 2008-2009 started on September 12 at the Freedom Square in Kharkiv and they will be in Barcelona on October 22 at the Palau Sant Jordi.

This English Rock and Hard Rock Band band was formed in 2004 as result of the collaboration between Paul Rodgers (former lead singer of Bad Company, Free, The Law and The Firm) and Brian May and Roger Taylor (two former members of the group Queen). Previously Guitarist Brian May had  performed with Paul Rodgers in the concert of the 50th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster guitar in London, September 2004, and a few weeks later, Paul Rodgers joined Brian May and Roger Taylor, to interpret versions of 'All Right Now' and 'We Will Rock You' at the ceremony in which the band was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame.
The three are the the principal members of the band, and are supplemented on tours with Spike Edney,keyboard player (Queen's former touring keyboard), Jamie Moses, rhythm guitarist (formerly on bands like The Pretenders, The Hollies or the Brian May Band) and bassist Danny Miranda (formerly in the Las Vegas production of the musicla We Will Rock You and the band the Blue Öyster Cult).
The first public appierence was in March 2005 at a concert in South Africa in support of Nelson Mandela, followed by a 2005-2006 tour Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour that started with a concert in the "Brixton Academy" of London with tickets sold mainly to members of the official fan club of Queen, and continued in UK and Europe with concerts in the Wembley Arena, the Cardiff International Arena, Le Zenith in France, in Portugal at Estadio do Restelo, at the Rhein-Energie Stadion in Cologne/Germany, at the Gelredome in Arnhem/the Netherlands and also at Hyde Park. After the European tour, Queen + Paul Rodgers continued  with a series of concerts in the fall of 2005, in places like Aruba, Japan and in the United States (performing in places like the Hollywood bowl or the American Airlines Arena in Miami) and a sold out concert in Vancouver, Canada.

LENNY KRAVITZ

Pabellón Olimpico de Badalona, July 2008.

Jenny Kravitz will be presenting this first studio album in four years at the Badalona Olympic Pavilion on July 8th.
The success of It Is Time For A Love Revolution, Kravitz’s eighth studio album has undoubtedly been fuelled by fan anticipation for what Rolling Stone has called “the best album Lenny Kravitz has ever made — a visceral, expertly tailored blend of late-’60s and early-’70s classic rock…”. It has already spawned two red-hot singles “Bring It On,” which was featured in the NFL Superbowl Highlights video, as well as in the promo spots for the new season of Survivor, and “I’ll Be Waiting,” whose video has been added to VH1, VH1 Soul, Fuse, BET, and MTV Hits, and currently sits at No. 7 on Billboard’s European airplay chart.

Bon Jovi - Hard Rock Band

Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys - June 2008

The hard rock band Bon Jovi from Sayreville, New Jersey is coming to Barcelona in the only concert in Spain, to present its last album “Lost Highway”. On June 1st of 2008 they will be in the Estadi Olimpic “Lluis Companys” in Montjuic after 5 years of their last visit to Barcelona. Jon Bon Jovi and his band started this worldwide tour last October in Newark, New Jersey, with 10 concerts and more than 150.000 entrances sold.
The group formed by lead singer Jon Bon Jovi, guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, bassist Alec John Such, and drummer Tico Torres has more than 20 years on stage, many top ten hits and some platinum and double platinum albums.
 

WOODY ALLEN & HIS NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND

New Year Concert - Gran Teatre del Liceu, January 2008

The popular New York director Woody Allen will offer in Barcelona on January 1st a concert of New Year in the Gran Teatre del Liceu. His well-known passion for jazz and for the clarinet, instrument that Allen use to lead his New Orleans jazz Band, brings him to Europe with an extensive Tour.
This European Tour will take Woody Allen and the New Orleans Jazz, among other cities, to London at the Hammersmith Apollo, to Paris at the prestigious Châtelet Theater, Athens, Luxembourg, Budapest, Brussels and Lisbon.
In addition to the Barcelona concert, the film director has confirmed two only performances in Spain, San Sebastian and La Coruña.
Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band comprise Woody Allen (Clarinet), Musical Director Eddy Davis (Banjo), Conal Fowkes (Double Bass), Robert Garcia (Drums), Cynthia Sayer (Piano), Simon Wettenhall (Horn) and Jerry Zigmont on Trombone.

TAKE THAT in Concert - Beautiful World Tour 2007

Pavello Olimpic de Badalona - Barcelona, October 2007

The group of Manchester TAKE THAT that were so popular in the 90’s, is back with the Beautiful World Tour 2007. The UK boy band par excellence formed at the present time by Mark Owen, Jason Orange, Howard Donald and Gary Barlow, has confirmed that the next October 20th will be at the Badalona Olympic Pavilion.
They will on stage with their number ones from 90’s and also from their return to the scenes in the 2005, like "Shine"(tenth of their career). The show counts also with a great overproduction. The tour of last year did not leave Great Britain, but this year they have confirmed dates for the United Kingdom, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Sweden and Denmark, and Spain.

Police in Barcelona

The Police at the Olympic Stadium, September 2007
The english musical band The Police a rock band, strongly influenced by reggae music, become one of the most popular groups in the world in the early 1980s. Formed in 1977 and, even being very popular, they stopped playing together in 1985.
They reunited again after 21 years apart, on February 11th 2007 to perform at the opening act of the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. After this performance the three member of the band Sting (Gordon Summer), Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland announced a world tour during 2007. They will also be playing at the Live Earth concert in July. And on September 27th they will be at the Olympic Stadium of Barcelona.

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Barcelona

Zubin Mehta –Palau de la Musica Catalana. September 2007

The European Festival Tour of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will end up in Barcelona with 2 concerts at the Palau de la Musica Catalana on September 18th and 19th. Conducted by one the most internationally acclaimed orchestral and operatic conductors of our age, Maestro Zubin Mehta, Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra since 1969, will be playing Beethoven, Mozart, Dvorak, Schoenberg, Schubert and Bardanashvili.
Zubin Mehta is considered one of the world's foremost interpreters of the great symphonic literature. His vast repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary music, and audiences worldwide are thrilled by his sensitive, yet powerful, musical statement. A truly universal personality, Maestro Mehta is equally renowned for his brilliant operatic performances. Since September 1998 he has been General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera. 

Premonicion Tour 07 in Barcelona

David Bisbal - Palau Sant Jordi, September 2007

The singer is presenting his third album “Premonicion” that appeared on September of last year. This Premonicion Tour 07 started on March, and the first three months David Bisbal has been on tour through different countries of South and Central America going from Chile and Argentina to Mexico with more than 30 concerts.
During these next four months, from June till ends of September David Bisbal will be touring Spain with more than 50 concerts in different places of the country. In Barcelona he will be presenting his show at the Palau Sant Jordi in the Olympic Area of the Montjuich Mountain on September 14th.
On October he will be back to America to continue his concerts on the United States and other countries of Central America.

El tren de los momentos en Barcelona

ALEJANDRO SANZ - Palau Sant Jordi, September 2007

Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz has suspended the American tour to present his last album, “El tren de los momentos”. He had already been in Chile, Peru Argentina, Uruguay and Mejico and was still missing the concerts in United States Puerto Rico and Republica Dominicana.
Sanz will retake the tour “El tren de los momentos” in August 4th in Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, north of Spain) to continue with more than 20 concerts through Spain during the months of August and September; and will be in Barcelona on September 4th in the Palau Sant Jordi in Montjuich. The presentation of the El tren de los momentos of Alejandro Sanz in the U.S.A. will have to wait till the month of November.

Norah Jones & The Handsome Band

In Barcelona at the Palau de la Musica, July 2007

First European tour of Norah Jones & The Handsome Band presenting Norah’s third and most personal album “Not Too Late”, collection of 13 original songs, all of which are either written or co-written by Norah herself.
This American pianist and singer has enchanted the world with her warm intimate voice, with her simplicity and with her enormous talent. Already with his first record in 2002, “Come Away With me” was able to sell more than 20 million copies and won 8 Grammy Awards, including "Better recording", "Better song" and "Better album". Her music combines elements of jazz, soul and country.
In Barcelona at the Palau de La Musica Catalana on July 20th.

Amar es Combatir - Mana

In Barcelona at the Palau Sant Jordi, June 2007

Maná returns to Barcelona to present in direct "Amar es combatir", the last and successful album of the group, with their particular Hard rock/Latin pop sound. After three years of absence of the scenes Maná is back with this World-Wide Tour in more than 100 cities and around more than 40 countries during 2007. They are without any doubt one of the most popular Mexican band of all times.
Maná is a three-time Grammy Award and five-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Mexican rock band from Guadalajara whose career has spanned almost three decades. The band was first organized in 1980 under the name of Sombrero Verde and reorganized under the name of Maná in 1986.
In Barcelona at the Palau Sant Jordi on June 26th. 

The Rolling Stones in Barcelona

At the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys, June 2007

The Rollings are back on stage.With the ‘A BIGGER BANG’ TOUR 2007 they will be visiting through the summer more than 20 European countries and 30 concerts, starting on June 5th in Wercher, Belgium.
This will be the time for all the European fans to see Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood y Charlie Watts on stage and even more for all the ones that could not see them last year when they were forced to cancel some concerts.
4 concerts in Spain: Madrid, San Sebastian, El Ejido and in Barcelona at the Olympic Stadium on June 21st. 

La Petite Bande

In Barcelona Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concertos, June 2007

During the month of June La Petite Bande (Belgium) directed by Sigiswald Kuijken, viola and violoncel 'da spalla', will be playing the Integral of Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concertos through Belgium and Spain.
The orchestra takes its name and constitution from Baroque Composer Jean Baptiste Lully's own orchestra at the court of Louis XIV. All its members are internationally renowned specialists in the early music field. For more than 35 years, by using authentic instruments and the original way of playing them, both in interpretation and sound quality, the orchestra strive to revive baroque music as faithfully as possible without lapsing into rigid academics.
La Petite Bande has recorded instrumental as well as vocal music, including operas and oratorios from the Baroque and Classical periods and has performed in a multitude of international festivals and concert series, in Europe, Japan, Australia, South America and China.
In Barcelona playing Bach Brandenburg Concerts on June 5th at the Palau de la Musica Catalana.

Beyonce in Barcelona

B’Day at the Palau Sant Jordi, May 2007

R n'B singer Beyoncé will be in Barcelona presenting her second studio album B’Day, released on September 4, 2006 worldwide. The album's title comes from the fact that September 4 is Beyoncé's birthday. B'Day was nominated for various Grammy Awards and won for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards.
The album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 with first week sales of 541,000 copies and at number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles is an R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, fashion designer and model. Knowles rose to fame as the creative force and lead singer of R&B girl group Destiny's Child, the world's best-selling female group of all time, with over fifty million records sold.

Luis Miguel

At the Palau Sant Jordi, April 2007

The Mexican singer Luis Miguel is coming to Spain to celebrate his 25th Anniversary of his Musical Career. He will be singing in 9 different cities of Spain an on April 30th he will at the Palau Sant Jordi with his fans from Barcelona. Even he has Mexican passport he was born in Puerto Rico and his parents are from Italy, Marcela Basteri, and Spain, Luis Gallego. He recorded his first album at the age of 12, and through his career he has received several Grammy Awards.

Recital Montserrat Caballé

At the Liceu Opera House, February 2007

The Concert initially scheduled for  November 26th 2006, will finally take place on 7 February 7th 2007 at 21.30 pm.It is always a pleasure and an honour to have Montserrat Caballe  singing in Barcelona and more even in the Liceu Opera house. With the company of Manuel Burguesas at the piano she will offer music from composers like Haendael , Cherubini, Niedermayer, Nicolai or Catani in the first part or Brahms, Massenet, Saint-Saëns or Goundod in the second half.Born in Barcelona, her international debut  began in New York with a substitution in Lucrezia Borgia in the Carnegie Hall. Montserrat Cabelle has sung all the great rolls of the repertoire in the greater scenes of the world. Her  interest on recovering important operas like  Gluck ‘s Armide, Salieri ‘s They Danaïdes, Pacini‘s Saffo or the Vestale has been very important.