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San Miguel Primavera Club 2010

The fifth edition of the San Miguel Primavera Club will take place from November 24th to November 28th 2010 simultaneously in different venues of Barcelona and Madrid.
Some of the names that have been already confirmed for this new edition of the Primavera Club are: the alternative rock band from Glasgow (Scotland) Teenage Fanclub; Lou Barlow, American alternative rock singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (founder member of the groups Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion) presenting his solo work; the electronica band from Toronto, Holy Fuck; Edwyn Collins , an Ivor Novello Award winning Scottish musician from Edinburg, playing mostly electric guitar-driven pop; the Brooklyn based band Beach Fossils; the industrial/techno/jungle/music from the band  from Mieres-Asturies, Fasenuova; also from Brooklyn, New York, the Gothic/Minimalist/A'cappella band Frankie Rose & The Outs; the troubled gay singer John Grant from Denver, Colorado, (former frontman of The Czars) presenting his last solo work “Queen of Denmark”, a poetic album about being a perennial outsider; the self-described psych-pop combo band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jaill; the experimental pop Twin Sister band  from Long Island, New York; the punk rock band, Male Bonding, based in London, that have released their first full-length album, Nothing Hurts, in May 2010; the American "dream pop" and indie rock one-man band created by Jack Tatum, Wild Nothing, with his debut 2010 album, Gemini; the Corn Flakes, Barcelona's legendary band from the 90’s, after their comeback concert at the 20th anniversary of the BCore label; from Madrid Lüger, one of the most promising national bands presenting their recent album; and a long list that includes among others the Americans Ganglians, Guadalupe Plata with their primitive blues, Eat Skull, Homenatges, Los Massieras, M Ax Noi Mach, Mount Kimbie, Screaming Females, Smoke Fairies, Tamaryn, , Wavves, Zola Jesus and more names to be added to the list.

42 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona

The first concert announced for the 42 Voll Damm International Jazz Festival will take place in L’Auditori in Barcelona on November 3 presenting Sonny Rollins and his 80th Anniversary Tour.
Theodore Walter Rollins was born on September 7 1930, in New York City and grew up in Harlem. He started out playing alto saxophone but at the age of sixteen, he switched to tenor. He began to follow Charlie Parker, and soon came under the wing of Thelonious Monk, who became his musical mentor. Before he turned twenty he already was working with Babs Gonzales, and Miles Davis among others.
Sonny moved to Chicago. He reemerged at the end of 1955 as a member of the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet. In 1956, Sonny began recording the first of a series of landmark recordings issued under his own name: Valse Hot introduced the practice of playing bop in 3/4 meter; St. Thomas initiated his explorations of calypso patterns; and Blue 7 was hailed by Gunther Schuller as demonstrating a new manner of "thematic improvisation. Way Out West (1957), Rollins's first album using a trio of saxophone, double bass, and drums, offered a solution to his longstanding difficulties with incompatible pianists, and exemplified his witty ability to improvise on hackneyed material (Wagon Wheels, I'm an Old Cowhand). During the years 1956 to 1958 Rollins was widely regarded as the most talented and innovative tenor saxophonist in jazz.
When he returned to action in early `62, his first recording was appropriately titled The Bridge. By the mid 60's, his live sets became grand, marathon stream-of-consciousness solos where he would call forth melodies from his encyclopedic knowledge of popular songs. Rollins was brilliant, yet restless. The period between 1962 and `66 saw him returning to action and striking productive relationships with Jim Hall, Don Cherry, Paul Bley, and his idol Hawkins, yet he grew dissatisfied with the music business once again and started yet another sabbatical in `66.
In 1972, with the encouragement and support of his wife Lucille, Rollins returned to performing and recording, signing with Milestone and releasing Next Album. His lengthy association with the label produced two dozen albums in various settings – from his working groups to all-star ensembles (Tommy Flanagan, Jack DeJohnette, Stanley Clarke, Tony Williams); from a solo recital to tour recordings with the Milestone Jazzstars (Ron Carter, McCoy Tyner); in the studio and on the concert stage (Montreux, San Francisco, New York, Boston). Sonny was also the subject of a mid-’80s documentary by Robert Mugge entitled Saxophone Colossus.
He won his first performance Grammy for This Is What I Do (2000), and his second for 2004’s Without a Song (The 9/11 Concert), in the Best Jazz Instrumental Solo category (for “Why Was I Born”). In addition, Sonny received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 2004. In June 2006 Rollins was inducted into the Academy of Achievement – and gave a solo performance – at the International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles. Rollins was awarded also with the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class, in November 2009.
In 2010 on the eve of his 80th birthday, Sonny Rollins is one of 229 leaders in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts, business, and public affairs who have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More information in sonnyrollins.com

Digital Lancelona V 2.0 Festival

The 2nd Barcelona Lan Party will take place at the Palau Sant Jordi in the Barcelona Olympic Complex from the 9 to the 12 of October of 2010, in the same venue of the first edition of Lancelona V. 1.0 that was a great success.
The Digital Lancelona Festival is a unique event in Barcelona that is based on new technologies. The Barcelona Lan Party 2010 is a Digital Festival of entertainment and knowledge where the people is the protagonists of all these developments that change our lives. It is also a forum for people to share their hobbies and interests. In this new edition there will be again the Lan party zone and also a free zone.
The Lan parties are based on interconnection of computers. The word LAN stands for Local Area Network (LAN) and the word Party means that is a feast. The name Lan Party comes from the way computers are interconnected: through a local area network (LAN), allowing them to exchange data at high speeds. There are different variations of LAN, there is wireless and wired networks. Usually the connections are through wired networks as they get a lot more speed and performance and avoid interference own wireless networks.
A LAN party is an event that brings together a group of people with their computers to play games, share and exchange information, and to meet people, make friends and learn from others about technology.
The Lan Party is mainly organized to play LAN games, but there are many other activities to share files, resources, work, share information, courses, conferences, etc. In addition, these meetings are for users to meet face to face, since most of the time they meet only through the Internet.
Lan Party Barcelona 2010 is organized by Packet Loss, a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote new technologies in society. The goal is to create a linkage between citizens, businesses and public entities.

Festival BAM - Barcelona Acció Musical

Around September 24, day of City Patron  Saint Virgin Mercé (Our Lady of Mercy), once again Barcelona will celebrate its Annual City Festival. One of the clasic events of these days is the BAM (Barcelona Acció Musical).  The BAM Barcelona 2010, a festival of independent music, showcases the best from the Catalan and Spanish music scene along with out coming international figures in more than 70 performances at a dozen different venues being all the concerts free.
The BAM Music Festival brings together a variety of genres from different corners of the world, from folk to electronic, pop-rock, hip hop or rumba, merging different rhythms and cultures from the Mediterranean, Europe, America or Africa.
The organization of the BAM Music Festival 2010, in its 18th edition, has released the first confirmations for this year edition of the festival, to be held from September 23 to 25.
Some of the names are:  GOLDFRAPP at the Fòrum - BAM/MTV (British duo led by Alison Goldfrapp that prefers not to spend too much time on the same style. From their trip-hop specially pop beginningsthat turned into electronic glam, going through a pastoral floating pop, and now returned to their more dancing with thei work Headfrist); EL GUINCHO at the Pl. dels Àngels (Pablo Diaz-Reixa, better known as El Guincho, from the Canary Islands, will present his new album Pop negre –Black Pop-2010); HINDI ZAHRA  at the Plaça de Rei (Parisian muse singer of Berber origin, presenting her songs of American great influence- jazz, folk, blues- with vibrant rhythm that lead to emotional and shady areas); MAIKA MAKOVSKI at the  Pl. dels Àngels (rock singer from the Mallorca island that has restarted his career this year with a record that, despite being the third, it is called simply Maika Makovski); TULSA at la Plaça del Rei (band led by Miren Iza (former Electrobikinis) presenting the latest album, Espera la pálida); NUEVA VULCANO at Plaça Reial (rock band that combines the visceral energy with high fly poetic lyrics); and many other names like Nacho Umbert & La Compañía, San Leon, Belle & Sebastian, Me and the Bees, Anti-Pop Consortium and more names that will be added to the list.
Some of the new and old venues of the Festival are Plaça dels Angels, Plaça de Joan Corominas, Plaça Reial, Plaça del Rei, Parc del Fórum or l’Antiga Fàbrica Damm.

San Miguel Masi i Mas 2010 Festival

The San Miguel Mas i Mas Festival 2010, held from July 29 to September 1, offer a billboard  of over 160 concerts of different styles of music. The eighth edition of the Festival San Miguel Mas i Mas will take place at the venues of L’Auditori and the Palau de la Musica as well as other traditional venues like Los Tarantos, the Jamboree Jazz Club, The Moog techno dance club, Luz de Gas or the  Caixa Catalunya Auditori in the Pedrera building.
With the idea of providing first class cultural activity during the quietest month in the city, the Mas i Mas group, with the help of San Miguel beer, launched a festival in 2003 that has become a classic on Barcelona's summer nightlife scene, providing quality live music of all styles during August in Barcelona, jazz, roc, pop, blues, flamenco, techno, funk, gospel or classic music.
For complete information on all the artists that will participate in this San Miguel Mas i Mas Festival visit the organizers web masimas.com

Grec Festival of Barcelona 2010

The 34th edition of the Grec Festival will take place in 2010. The Grec Festival is the summer’s main annual date of Barcelona with theatre, dance, music and circus
Although the centre of the festival is in the Teatre Grec de Montjuïc, where the inaugural shows invariably take place, the Grec Festival also occupies other different sites and venues all over the city, that after so many years have become traditional for the Festival like the Plaça del Rei, the Teatre Lliure, the Mercat de les Flors, the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, L'Auditori together with another group of private institutions, both large like the Teatre Romea and Villarroel Teatre to small spaces like the Sala Muntaner and the Sala Beckett.
Other leading cultural institutions are also involved in the festival activities of the Grec Festival like the Library of Catalonia, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), the Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB), the Fundació Joan Miró and the CaixaForum art centre. New venues have been added in thesex last years to the Festival activities such as El Mirador del Teatre Grec, and centers dedicated to experimental art including the former Fabra i Coats factory, the Nau Ivanow and La Caldera.
In this new edition of the Grec Festival Japan will become the guest of a festival, with a selection of innovative productions, some directly from Japan and others clearly inspired by Japan's culture and its artists.
In Barcelona from June 17th till August 1st.

Sonar 2010 Barcelona

The 17th International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art Sonar 2010 will take place, for the first time simultaneously in the cities of Barcelona and A Coruña (Sonar Galicia) coinciding with the Xacobeo (Compostela’s Jubilee). The Sonar Festival confirmed dates are 17, 18 and 19 June, and presents a line-up that will be, to a large extent, shared by the two cities. In both cities the Sonar’s diverse artistic offer will split between the Sonar by Day activities (in Barcelona, the CCCB and MACBA venues) with a music line-up, and a multimedia and audiovisual area and the Sonar by Night (in Barcelona in Fira Gran Via M2 L’Hospitalet) that will feature the latest leading lights in electronic, together with some simultaneous concerts in special venues. In the Sonar Festival you can enjoy a selected program which combines the electronica headliners together with emerging artists and DJ’s representing the most updated music and new media trends within electronic culture, and it is also the meeting point for a worldwide audience looking for the newest, and also for professionals, looking for the perfect environment for business and networking.

For information  visit Sonar Festival

San Miguel PRIMAVERA SOUND 2010

From May 27 to May 29 the 10th edition of San Miguel Primavera Sound will be in the Parc del Forum of Barcelona.
In the list of names for this year edition there are names like Liquid Liquid, one of the most mythical formations of post punk, the New Zealand cult pop of band The Clean, one of the classics of American underground Shelac or the experimental indie rock of the Americans Polvo.
 Also some of the most renown and successful bands of these recent years like the solo project of Bradford Cox Atlas Sound, the duo No Age and their new twist to indie rock, the Apocalypse sound of the Lakers band Health,  the electronic music of Fuck Buttons or the experimental crossover of the New Yorkers Yeasayer will also be on stage during the three days of the festival.
An important moment of the festival will be the premiere of new show of the band Standstill, as a step forward that the group gives after of the success of the "Vivalaguerra” tour.
And as every other year special attention will be given also to fresh and new bands that have appeared in these last months like the British revelation The Big Pink or the icy electronic pop of Cold Cave and others.
For complete list of artist during the festival you can visit the organizers web:San Miguel Primavera Sound website 

Barcelona Asian Film Festival

This new edition Festival de Cine Asiatico de Barcelona (Barcelona Asian Film Festival) will take place in Barcelona from April 30 to May 9. Divided into different sections (Official • AS - Asian Selection • Focus in South Korea • SE Asia • Emerging • Anime • Special Session Baff) the festival this year will have a special emphasis in the Korean cinematography (with its special section) and supported by the KOFIC (Korean Film Council), who has worked a selection of key titles that have marked the emergence of the new wave of Korean cinema with some of the essential Korean film directors today like Ki-duk Kim, Bong Joon-ho, Park Chan-wook and Lee Chang-dong could not miss the Focus in South Korea.
The opening film of BAFF 2010 Barcelona Asian Film Festival, the movie from India LUCK BY CHANCE, directed by Zoya Akhtar is a journey full of color and plenty of sarcasm into the bowels of Bollywood.
The Awards given this year are: The Durián de Oro, Award for the best film of the Official Section with a jury formed by:  Aruna Vasudev (jury president) - President of NETPAC, an association that supports and promotes the Asian film and deliver the prestigious award that bears his name. NETPAC this year celebrates its twentieth anniversary; Desirée of Fez - film critic and journalist; Maggie Lee - Movie criticism of the "Hollywood Reporter"; Angel Hall - Director of International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia; Max Tessier - Journalist, specialist in Asian cinema
The NETPAC Award is granted by the organization of the same name (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema). A worldwide organization founded in 1990 in New Delhi with the support of UNESCO that aims to promote and support Asian films in the world. It is based in Singapore and is composed of critics, directors, festival promoters, distributors and exhibitors. This award will be presented by the same jury that awarded the Golden Durian
The Distribution Award Granted by the distributor Motion Pictures, in collaboration with Tribanda, which will acquire the rights of the film that wins the award for its commercial release in Spain.
The Award for Best Film at D-Cinema format, with a jury of this section formed by: Alejandro Vidal - visual artist, Alberto Tognazzi - Director of the Mobile Film Festival. And also the Audience Award through the public votes.
The Venues of the Festival are Rex Cinema, Aribau Club 2 Cinemas, The CCCB Auditori and the CCCB Hall. 

DE CAJÓN! 2010 FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA

The fifth edition of the Barcelona Flamenco festival DE CAJÓN! will close its edition this year with a very special concert  presenting Pitingo, Antonio Álvarez Vélez, with Juan Carmona Amaya, guitar, Fernando Soto and José Antonio Camacho ´Piripi´, clapping, Juan Carmona Reyes, percussion and Tere and Angela Bautista, choirs.
Born in Ayamonte (Huelva) in 1980, Antonio Álvarez Vélez, Antonio Pitingo, grandson and nephew of Cantaores is related to three of the best sagas of Flamenco artists: the Carpio, the Valencia, and the Pelaos de Triana. Even so Pitingo without renouncing to his Flamenco roots also had a great love for black music. And knowing very well both feelings he has generated a fusion of cultures in an original mix with soul and flamenco. He learned singing at home and listening to classical flamenco singers like Chacón, Vallejo, Marchena, Caracol, Tomas, Pastora, Mojama, Camarón and Morente, and also received gospel and soul from great masters like Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder, to mention some.
This merger began to take shape with his debut work at Universal, Pitingo con Habichuelas in 2006, produced by José Manuel Gamboa and accompanied with the guitars of the Habichuela brothers, Pepe and Juan, and the children of this last, Ketama Juan and Antonio Carmona.
After this combination a new way of expressing was born called Soulería, mixture between flamenco bulerías and soul sound, a complete new way of singing and feeling.
The Concert wii take place in the Palau de La Musica Catalana on April 15th
 

21 Festival de Guitarra i altres Acords

In Barcelona, from February to June, 2010.
The Guitar Festival is one year more in Barcelona on its 21st edition, having this year two of the most influential guitarists of the last decades for the Opening and Closing concerts; In between more than twenty concerts, mainly focused in the world of the six strings, but together with other thematic variations.
Pat Metheny will be opening the Festival on Sunday February 21st in L’Auditori, presenting his last work Orchestration, and months after Paco de Lucia, the most influential guitarist of recent history of flamenco, will close the festival on his return to the Liceu after 3 years, on Sunday June 20th.
Even though the complete program has not yet been published we can expect as years before an eclectic program with a long list of artists related to the world of the six strings.

Grec Festival 09

The Grec Festival of music, dance and drama is held every summer annually in Barcelona since 1976, organized by the Institut de Cultura of Barcelona City Council.
In its 33rd edition, The Barcelona Grec'09 Festival will start on 20 June and will take place till 2 August with more than 60 shows of theater, dance, music and circus.
The Grec Festival 09 brings on stage great artists, from national and international panorama, of music and dance and drama such as Calixto Bieito, Lluís Pasqual, Jordi Savall, Joan Ollé, Georges Lavaudant, Keith Jarrett, Amos Gita, Robert Lepage, Romeo Castellucci, Sylvie Guillem, Lluís Soler, Rosa Novell, Khaled, Jeanne Moreau, Mayte Martin and Eusebio Poncela, among others.
The main sites are the Teatre Grec, Mercat de les Flors, Teatre Lliure, L’Auditori,  Sala Muntaner, Sala Beckett, Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona (CCCB), Teatro Romea, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and Teatre Borràs  together  with Plaça del Rei, Biblioteca Francesca Bonnemaison, Biblioteca Jaume Fuster, Biblioteca Horta - Can Mariner, Biblioteca Mercè Rodoreda, Biblioteca Sagrada Família, Biblioteca Vapor Vell, CaixaForum, Fabra i Coats, Fundació Joan Miró, La Caldera, MACBA, Mirador del Grec, Museu Picasso and others.
This Festival will have Italy as invited guests, and Romeo Castellucci's trilogy on The Divine Comedy will be the center of the festival. The production of 'Inferno' will be on stage in the Greek amphitheater, while the 'Purgatory' and 'Paradiso' will take place at the Teatro Lliure and the Chapel of the MACBA, respectively.

Sonar Festival 2009 Barcelona

In June is time for the Sonar Festival with the Sónar by Day (CCCB, MACBA) from Thursday 18th to Saturday 20th June, and the Sónar by Night (Fira Gran Via M2) Friday 19th & Saturday 20th June 2009.
Two of the main attractions already announced are Grace Jones and Orbital.
Grace Jones, the Jamaican-born artist, muse of the 1980s, singer, model, actress and an icon of modernity far beyond mere music, returns, after almost twenty years of recording silence with an excellent new album, "Hurricane," produced by well renowned names including Sly & Robbie, Tricky and Brian Eno. The diva is back with her individual style bang up to date, with a mixture of electronic, pop, Jamaican and ground-breaking funk, and her continuous and stunning changes of costume and supported with a very solid band on stage.
Orbital is one of the most important groups in electronic dance music in the ‘90s and return to the international stage in 2009 with a tour that will give a fresh airing to all the major hits of their career. This will be an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate 20 years of cinematic techno anthems and symphonies. The Hartnoll brothers created dozens of legendary anthems between 1989 and 2004 and for their show at the 16th edition of Sónar, they will bring new audiovisuals to give a dash of colour to a sessionpacked with all their greatest hits.
More artists on the Sónar 2009 will be announced in the near future.
All Sónar 2009 tickets are available and on sale - the 3 Day Ticket and also both Sónar by Day and Sónar by Night tickets.

DE CAJÓN! 2009

DE CAJÓN!  2009 FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA January to April 2009

The fourth edition of the Barcelona Flamenco festival DE CAJÓN! comes this year with some changes. The first is a change on dates, instead of being during springtime this year the festival will go on through the winter opening on January 9th with a concert of Diego El Cigala and his group at the Gran Teatre del Liceu presenting also some special guests like Remedios Amaya and Moncho. Also the number of concerts has changed reaching to a total of 17 concerts, more than double that of the previous edition starting as mentioned on January 9th to April 3rd.
Adding to the traditional venues of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Sala Apolo and La [2] – Apolo, Luz de Gas, Bikini and the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona the festival will extend also to the cities of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Auditori Barradas) and Sant Cugat (Casa de Cultura).
The festival is full of popular names of the Flamenco Music and El Cante like Niña Pastori, Antonio Cortés Chiquetete, José El Francés and Chonchi Heredia, Montse Cortés. Enrique Bermúdez El Piculabe accompanied  by Juan José Suárez Paquete  playing the guitar and the percussion of Piraña with the guitars of  Pepe Habichuela, Josemi Carmona y Diego El Morao as guest artists and a many others.
Special this year also is the series of concerts dedicated to young Catalan flamenco artists like guitar player El Tuto or José Andrés Cortés, flamenco dancers Marta Martinez, Yolanda Cortés or David Romero or the group D’Callaos with a progressive Andaluz Rock.
For the closing night of the festival, friday April 3rd, at the Palau de la Musica Catalana the art of the gypsy and Andalusian flamenco dancer Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, Farruquito.

Estrella Damm Primavera Club 2008

Parc del Forum Barcelona - December 2008

The third edition of Estrella Damm Primavera Club will be held next December in Barcelona on the Stages of the Parc del Forum during the 12th & 13th of December and will be complemented also with a series of performances at the venues of Sala Apolo and La [2] de Apolo from December 10 to 13.
This new edition of Estrella Damm Primavera Club 2008 will be held also and for the first time in Madrid from the 11th to the 13th of December, in the following venues: Joy Eslava, El Sol and Nasti.
Names confirmed to appear on this new edtion of The Estrella Damm Club 08 in both cities, Barcelona and Madrid, are: Darren Hayman & Jack Hayter play Hefner songs, The Wave Pictures, The Thermals, Deerhoof, Giant Sand and The Extraordinaires.
More information for tickets can be found at t Estrella Damm Primavera Club website

40 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona

Fall in Barcelona is time for Jazz, October/November 2008

Since 1966 with only a lapse of three years the Jazz Festival has been present in Barcelona. This year the Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona comes to its 40th anniversary from October 23 to November 29.
The first visit to Barcelona of Al Green on October 24, the duo between the pianist Brad Mehldau and saxophonist Joshua Redman on November 9 (commissioned by the festival to celebrate the last two decades of history), and the presentation of the new disc of Matthew Herbert and his big band on November 13th are some of the confirmed concerts of the program of the Festival. The complete program of the Festival will not appear till the month of September.
A special cycle dedicated to the trumpet, the traditional family concert (this year with La Vella Dixieland group) and conferences from jazz critics and writers that will come from New York will form part of the extensive program of the Festival.
For the complete program of the Festival, calendar and venues visit the organizers web: theproject.es

Grec Festival

The Grec Barcelona Festival or “Grec Festival” is the traditional summer festival of Barcelona involving theatre, music, dance, circus and more. Is the season’s most important cultural event in Barcelona since the very beginnings in 1976.
This 32 Festival spreads out through the entire city with many popular street events.
The festival opens with a new version from Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale in the Greek Theater and from June 25 to August 2 the different events will be taking place in traditional places for the festival like the Plaça del Rei and adding new other venue to the long list.
For theatre the venues are: Teatre Lliure-Espai Lliure, Biblioteca de Catalunya, Mercat de les Flors, Teatre Romea, La Villarroel, Teatre Grec, Teatre Lliure-Sala F. Puigserver, Sala Muntaner, TNC-Sala Petita, CCCB,
For ballet: Teatre Grec, La Caldera, Mercat de les Flors, TNC-Sala Gran,  Teatre Romea
For music: CaixaForum, Plaça del Rei, Fundació Joan Miró, L’Auditori, MACBA, Palau de la Música Catalana, Teatre Grec, MACBA, La Caldera
And for the circus: Mercat de les Flors, Museu Picasso, and some of the public libraries of Barcelona from the Library network of Barcelona.

B-estival 2008

Barcelona Eclectic music festival, July 2008. 

On its third edition this summer Music festival adds to the traditional venue from the last past two years, the Poble Espanyol, the venue of the Espacio Movistar 2.0 in the new location at the Campus Diagonal of the Barcelona University.
10 concerts during the month of July will bring music and sounds from different styles and places of the world, and rhythms of new age, pop, soul, folk, jazz or hip hop.
The opening concert will be in the Poble Espanyol with the classics B-52s starting their Funplex Tour 2008 to present the new studio album after 16 years with no record.
The next concerts will put on stage Erykah Badu, Kevin Johansen & The Nada, Loreena McKennitt and others, to end up with a night of brasilian hip hop with DJ Dolores and Marcelo D2. In Barcelona from July 9 to 29

Summercase 2008

Parc del Forum Barcelona, July 2008

Summercase is a simultaneous festival in Madrid and Barcelona during two days. The two last editions were a great success of public in both cities. Summercase 08 continues with the original spirit: a same poster for the two cities at the same time, this year on July 18 and 19. Also the venues will be the same as in the past 2 years: in Madrid it will in Boadilla of Monte, and in Barcelona in the Parc de Fòrum, Rambla Prim 2-4.
The event will take place in several simultaneous scenes maintaining its original spirit: An amazing line up of consolidated artists and bands combined with the brightest new talents and hot tips for the future. For the moment some names have been already confirmed: The Breeders, CSS, M.I.A., Maxïmo Park, Mystery Jets, Pete & The Pirates or The Stranglers.

DE CAJÓN! 2008

FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA , May to July 2008

The third edition of the Barcelona Flamenco festival DE CAJÓN! will last from 29 May to 6 July.
Vicente Amigo with his guitar accompanied with a group and the voice of Rafel de Utrera will open the festival. The next concerts will bring on stage, between others, the voice of Diego el Cigala and his group, the Flamenco Dancer Juan de Juan with his show, the guitar of Tomatito and his group. The closing Concert will bring to Barcelona to Rosario, the daughter of the always remembered Lola Flores, presenting her last album “Dentro de mi”, even though her music is more a mixture of pop rumbero her feeling has always been pure flamenco.
The Palau de la Música, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Luz de Gas and the Club Sala Apolo are the venues where the stars of flamenco cante will be appearing.
More information about the concerts at: theproject.es

Sonar Festival in Barcelona 2008

Advanced music and multimedia art,  June 2008

As every other year in June in Barcelona is time for the Sonar Festival. The Sonar is a carefully curated electronic music festival and multimedia showcases.
Sonar is considered in European electronic panorama a festival of reference for artists of last generation, electronic professionals and a place were to see the most influential companies of the sector of music and arts.
The combination of concerts, DJs sessions, audio-visual areas of artistic experimentation and projections has called up the attention of the most demanding European and Spanish public during the 3 days without interruption on the different venues were the Festival takes place.
The dates for the 2008 Sonar Festival are June 19, 20, and 21. The artist and showcase lineup has yet to be announced.

Daydream Festival

Radiohead at the Parc del forum, June 2008

On June 12 it will take place in the Parc del Fòrum the first edition of this new one-day Daydream Festival. The main interest of this 1st edition of the festival will be to listen to the British rock band Radiohead, in the only concert that the band will give in Spain, on their tour presenting the last studio record “In Rainbows”.
This 1st editon of the festival has been programmed to give support to the music of Radiohead as all the groups and djs that will appear on stage together with the british band will have some type of musical influence with the group led by Thom Yorke or as inspiration or as mutual admiration.
Some of the names that will be on stage during the festival are Christoph de Babalon, Cristian Vogel, Knife, Faust, Four Tet Live, Bat lashes, Clinic, Liars, Low, Modeselektor live and M83.
In addition, it will be the opportunity to listen to the Ensemble Nacional de Musica Contemporanea de España, ENEMC, as a clear tribute to the 1997 album “Off Computer” from Radiohead, presenting from a different perspective through the sounds of an orchestra the music that was mostly written to be played by machines and also new material form Radiohead guitarist and composer Jonny Greenwood.

19 Festival de Guitarra i altres Acords

In Barcelona, from April to June 2008

The Guitar Festival is back one year more to Barcelona with the name of Guitar Festival and other chords, as during the festival the guitar will not be the only protagonist instrument of the festival. Known national and international names will form part of the program of the festival, from April 3rd to June 7th, and the sounds of flamenco, classic guitar, fado, jazz, soul, funk, rock, r’n’b, drum and bass or pop blues will be present on stage from countries all around the world.
Names like QUILAPAYÚN, PAUL ANKA, FITO PÁEZ, MILTON NASCIMENTO & JOBIM TRIO, THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS, JOSÉ MERCÉ, LUIS EDUARDO AUTE, AL KOOPER and many others will be on stage during the 24 concerts of the festival in the traditional venues of the Palau de la Musica, L’Auditori, Bikini and Luz de Gas, together with new spaces added like the Joventut Theatre from L’Hospitalet, The Auditori from San Cugat and the Auditori from Santa Coloma de Gramenet. 
Together with the festival there is the night for the students of different schools of Barcelona to show the work done through the year in the V Mostra de Joves Guitarristas. For more information visit the organizers website: theproject.es

Estrella Damm Primavera Sound 08

Parc del Forum of Barcelona, May 2008

As every year spring is time for the alternative rock music festival in Barcelona. A long list of artists and groups will be in the Estrella Damm Primavera Sound’08 Festival between May 29 and 31, at the Parc del Forum of Barcelona, a spacious environment with many different stages. The first list for this alternative rock festival counts with names of PORTISHEAD, MISSION OF BURMA, LES SAVY FAV, OKKERVIL RIVER, ERIC'S TRIP, MODEL 500, SILVER JEWS, CLIPSE, SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, SCOUT NIBLETT, PISSED JEANS, DEERHUNTER, SHIPPING NEWS, EDAN & MC DAGHA, HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS, THE FELICE BROTHERS, MV & EE WITH THE GOLDEN ROAD, FUCK BUTTONS, MAN MAN.. The spirit of the festival is to showcase independent and up and coming acts, as well as experienced bands with strong influence in the music that is done nowadays. Music, sounds and rhythms from different places of the world will sound in the full equipped, wide-open space of the Parc del Forum in Barcelona by the Mediterranean Sea.

Estrella Damm Primavera Club 2007

Parc Del Forum - Sala Apolo - Barcelona, December 2007

The second edition of Estrella Damm Primavera Club 2007 Festival will take place in Barcelona from December 4 to 8 at the venues of the Auditorium in the Parc Del Fòrum and the two spaces of the Sala Apolo.
Five of the names that have already confirmed their presence at the festival are the band of Dylan Carson, Earls; The Liars presenting their last record; the band from Atlanta Deerhunter with the charismatic voice of Bradford Cox; The group from New York Bishop Allen, presenting also their last album “The broken String”; and the young band from LA, The Little Ones.
Other names that will appear in the different days or the festival are: Von Südenfed, John Vanderslice, Bracken, The Ettes, Digital Mystikz + Loefahfeat. Mc Sgt. Pokes, Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts, Parts & Labor, Lagartija, Schwarz, The Right Ons, Sanjosex, Ruiz Pantaleon.

ELS GRANS DEL GOSPEL 9a EDICIÓ

Catalunya Gospel Festival, December 2007

During the month of December it will take place the ninth edition of the festival Els Grans of the Gospel, Festival de Gospel de Catalunya, that brings the best voices of international gospel to different places of Catalunya, from Barcelona to l'Hospitalet, Viladecans, Sant Cugat, Girona and Vielha. 
The program of this year brings the performance of Marlena Smalls & The Hallellujah Gospel Choir, the Black Heritage Singers, the Katie Graham Ensemble, the Joyful Gospel Choir, and the Soweto Gospel Choir. 
For more information of the days and places of the concerts visit the organizers website: theproject.es

Barcelona International Jazz Festival

Fall is time for Jazz in Barcelona. October to December 2007

The 38th Barcelona International Jazz Festival is one of the most respected events in Spain. It takes place during the autumn from October 28th till December 5th. The music comes in a wide variety of styles, from big bands and bebop to gospel and Latin jazz. In addition to the numerous concerts, there are a handful of workshops and master classes.
More than 30 concerts will take place during the 37th Barcelona International Jazz Festival. In the long list many known names as Jamie Cullum, Joan Monné & the Nou Nonet, Lucky Peterson, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack Dejonette, Cassandra Wilson, Chano Domínguez & the New Flamenco Sound, Avishai Cohen Trio, Brad Mehldau, Michel Camino & Tomatito, Christian McBride Band, Kyle Eastwood Band, Bebo Valdés & Javier Colina, Herbie Hancock Quartet, the Big Band de Badalona and many others. Special mention to a concert of Barbara Hendricks singing Billie Holiday at the Liceu Opera House with the ticket already sold out.
The venues of the festival will be the Palau de la Música, the different spaces in L'Auditori, the Luz de Gas Club and the Bikini Space, the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, the Zacarías Jazz Club, the Zorrilla theatre in Badalona, and The Liceu Opera theatre. The workshops and master classes will take place in the Zac Club and in the conference hall of the SGAE.

eBent'07 Accidental Expansions

Internacional Meeting of Performing Acts

The Internacional Meeting of Performing Acts brings from November 9 to December 1 artists from different places of the world to present there performing acts in Barcelona and Sabadell. Frédéric Ollereau and his car, YoungSoon Cho with Dry Fish staging a model and a few Korean guests who made the trip especially for this fashion show. Catie de Balmann and her clothes for travel presented by people from different places of the world. Melati Suryodarmo with elements of Butoh, traditional dance and visual art performance to talk about identity, energy, politics and relationships between the body and the environments surrounding it. The arrangement overtones to her performances were simple but give the pieces an edgy closeness to the audience. In her performances, she uses specific objects, which are abstracting her conceptual thoughts but at the same time bringing the public into the daily facts.
Different exhibitions and Actions of renowned artists like Li Wei, Ramón Guimaraes, Natalia Restrepo, Franco de Toledo y Rufino Mesa will take place also during the Festival of Performance Pasaje de la Paz.

2007 Wintercase San Miguel

Independent Music Festival - Barcelona, November 2007

The travelling winter music festival is presented by San Miguel Beer Company and Sinnamon Promotions and is bringing to different Spanish cities, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and Bilbao, the best of independent music, with upcoming new talents and well-known international artists and bands.
The next concerts in Barcelona on November 18, 20 and 24 will bring to Barcelona the energy of Super Furry Animals the adrenaline rush of The Editors and the singular sound of Spoon, with new groups like Ratatat, How I became the bomb and Explosions in the sky.
Comcerts will take place in Barcelona in one of the most important concert venues in the city, Sala Razzmatazz 1.

1st ASICS MUSIC FESTIVAL

Palau Sant Jordi - Barcelona , October 2007

The 1st ASICS MUSIC FESTIVAL, will take place on the 12 and 13 of October in the Palau Sant Jordi of Barcelona, and it will be more than 12 hours of direct music with the following artists on stage: Paulina Rubio, Antonio Orozco, El Sueño de Morfeo, Chambao, Hombres G, Mikel Erentxun and also Pet Shop Boys and Dover.
Together with these two days of concerts, the people that go to the venue of the Palau Sant Jordi will have access to more than 3,000 square meters in which the Japanese Multinational ASICS will recreate the city of Tokyo to a great extend; the commercial streets of Tokyo, the airport, the train, the zen gardens, as well as the houses of the geishas. The enclosure will have capacity for more than 2,000 people.

12 Festival of Music from Around the World

In Barcelona at the Auditori Concert Hall, September-October 2007

Eleven concerts that will give the chance to listen to Music from different cultures and places of the world as from Iran with Shahram Nazeri and the Sufi Music, CHIQUI DE LA LÍNEA and the flamenco sound, the Kurdish Aynour with her songs, blues from Mali with Boubacar Traeré, Cristina Branco mixing modernity and tradition with her “fados” or the Gnawa music from Morocco with the concerts of Abdeljalil Kodssi presenting his latest work and the Majid Bekkas Quartet wit African gnaoua blues.
The Yiddish songs will be on stage with the group Di Gojim, the World musictheatre show; Six musicians on stage, playing more than 25 instruments.  From Tunisia the Songs of praise of the Sufi tradition from the Maghreb with the group Ikhwan Al-Hadra (the siblings of the presence) under the guide of Fakhreddine Yacubi.
Other concerts will bring on stage to El Hadj N'Diaye Quintet from Senegal and Anwar Abudragh & Maqamat Ensemble with Maqam music from Iraq, one of the best-preserved religious music traditions of the Arab world

WEEKEND DANCE Madrid - Barcelona

Parc del Forum - September 2007

Weekend Dance is a brand new music festival that will take place in two cities on consecutive days: the 14th of September in Madrid and the 15th of September in Barcelona.
A music journey organized around one stage and two marquees and where will be acting the most representative and innovative artists from the dance and electronic music scenes.
In Barcelona on September 15th at The Parc del Fòrum from 18:00 hours with the presence of Massive Attack, Faithless, Nite Versions + 2manydjs, Deep Dish (Dubfire+Sharam), Sven Väth, Carl Craig, Vitalic (live), Hernan Cattaneo, Digitalism (live), Cedric Gervais, Wally Lopez, Undo et Vicknoise and many others

Mas i Mas Festival

Eclectic Musical Offering in Barcelona, July to September 2007

Festival for the summer nights, with programs that covers everything from jazz to electronic pop. Names like the Buenavista Social Club band with music from the isle of Cuba, the afro-Cuban artist Manolito Simonet, the Caribbean salsa rhythms of José Luís Cortés and NG La Banda or Lucrecia accompanied by the Barcelona Symphonic Orchestra. Also it will be possible to listen to the Orquestra Árabe de Barcelona with guests like Omar Sosa, Omar Faruk, Miquel Gil and Lucrecia. Other names like Wayne Shorter Quartet's for the jazz music or Alaska’s band Fangoria for the pop electronic music will be on stage.
The Mas i Mas concerts will be held in different venues throughout the city of Barcelona, including the Auditori, Liceu, Luz de Gas, Sala Apolo and the Grec Theatre, adding also a series of mini concerts at La Pedrera.

Barcelona Accio Musical 2007

Festival BAM - September 2007

The Festival BAM (Barcelona Acció Musical) will take place the next 21st, 22nd and 23rd of September.  On the occasion of 15th anniversary of this Festival in Barcelona  a special programming in different emblematic places of the city, like the pl. Joan Coromines, the Cathedral Ave., the Moll de la Fusta, the pl. del Rei, the pl. Sant Jaume, the Portal de la Pau and the Parc del Forum, is being prepared to bring the music from different corners of the world. 
Coinciding with the local feast of La Mercè, Our Lady of Mercy  (patron saint of Barcelona), these three days to listen to a combination of styles and influences, with different rhythms and cultures from the Mediterranean, Europe, America or Africa.
 

Barcelona Loveball 2007

European gay and lesbian festival, August 2007

Barcelona is ready to embrace Loveball’s forth edition, the most important European gay and lesbian festival, which will be held for the second time in Barcelona. This edition will last for a week (from August 1st to the 7th) and will feature music, sport activities, cinema, art, fashion and the most original way of leisure that you can imagine. Barcelona Loveball 2007 expects to join more than 30.000 people coming from all over Europe and also from other places such United States, Australia, South America, Israel or Turkey. Barcelona was not chosen by chance to celebrate the fourth edition of the Loveball. The Catalan capital proved, during the previous edition, to be an open, modern, multicultural and tolerant city, with a vibrant cultural and nightlife scene that draws in the many tourists flocking to the city throughout the year.

B-ESTIVAL 2007 in Barcelona

Festival de Ritmes al Poble Espanyol, July 2007

From July 4th to July 26th this second edition of B-Estival the Festival de Ritmes al Poble Espanyol of Barcelona with ten concerts of different well known national and international names as Bebel Gilberto, George Benson & Al Jarreau, Morcheeba, John Mayal & The Bluesbreakers, Carlinhos Brown, Nacha Pop, Alpha Blondy, Julieta Venegas, Youssou N’Dour and more.
After last year success the organizers are looking forward for this warm summer nights of music at the central square, Plaça Major of the Poble Espanyol in Barcelona.

De Cajón!

Festival Flamenco de Barcelona, June-July 2007

From June 1st till July 22nd this new chance to listen in Barcelona’s second Flamenco Festival De Cajón! to very well known flamenco stars like the last year Grammy award Winner Diego El Cigala in the open concert at the Palau de la Musica.
The following concerts will bring to Barcelona the new and promising voice of Maria Lopez Tristancho, Argentina, the well-known voice of José Mercé and the flamenco guitar of José Fernandez Torres, Tomatito, with his sextet. For the closing night at the Gran Teatre del Liceu two generations for the first time together sharing stage in Barcelona, Enrique Morente and his daughter Estrella Morente.
The name of the festival De Cajón! comes from the instrument that accompanies the Flamenco Music, a wooden box, that together with the palms y el zapateado (movement of the shoes) marks the rhythm.

Festival Internacional de Piano

In Barcelona at the Auditori Concert Hall, June-July 2007

The first International Piano Festival of Barcelona will take place from June 30th to July 15th at the Auditori of Barcelona, modern musical complex designed by  the architect Rafael Moneo and opened in March of 1999.
The 8 concerts of the festival will give the chance to listen to well-known names like Ivo Pogorelich, Dominique Merlet or Evgueni Koroliov and also to young figures that are starting their international careers. The concerts will take place in two of the spaces of the building Sala 1 Pau Casals and Sala 2 Oriol Martorell.  L’Auditori, C. Lepant 150, 08013 Barcelona.

Summercase 2007

In Barcelona  at the Parc del Forum, July 2007

Summercase is a simultaneous festival in Madrid and Barcelona during two days. The first edition celebrated in 2006 was a great success of public in both cities. Summercase 07 continues with the original spirit: a same poster for the two cities at the same time on July 13 and 14. The event will take place in the same venues of last year: in Madrid it will in Boadilla of Monte, and in Barcelona in the Parc de Fòrum, Rambla Prim 2-4. The event will take place in several simultaneous scenes where it will be possible to see to: Air, The Chemical Brothers, James, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Kaiser Chiefs, !!!, Badly Drawn Boy, Dj Shadow, Felix Da Housecat, The Gossip, Jarvis Cocker, OMD, Soulsavers feat. Mark Lanegan, Dragonette, Electrelane, The Glimmers, The Hours, How I Became The Bomb, Miqui Puig y El Conjunto Eléctrico, My Brightest Diamond, Ratatat, Perry Blake, Riotous Rockers, The Sunday Drivers, The Twang, Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, The Flaming Lips, PJ Harvey, Scissor Sisters, 2manydjs, Astrud, Editors, The Hidden Cameras, LCD Soundsystem, Lily Allen, Mika, Phoenix, 1990s, Amable & Gato, Belle & Sebastian Djs, Bromheads Jacket, Delorean, Fionn Regan, Guillemots, The Maccabees, The Pigeon Detectives, Sr. Chinarro,

Sonar 2007 in Barcelona

Advanced music and multimedia art, June 2007

L’Auditori in Barcelona will be the stage of one of the most special and exclusive moments at Sónar 2007. As part of the programming on Friday the 15th of June, there will be an experiment which will place electronic sound in contact with classical methodologies and which will bring together musicians from these two traditionally far removed areas once again, in the setting of two unprecedented concerts. Like last year's concert by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, the piano will be the main feature of this year's joint project between Sónar and L’Auditori. On this occasion, the classical instrument par excellence willl be submitted to various processes of transformation by the trio Alexander’s Annexe feat. Mira Calix and the duo formed by Tristano and Murcof.  Sonar 2007, June 14th, 15th, 16th. Photography:  Lejaren À Hiller  ©

Estrella Damm Primavera Sound’07

Spring is time for the alternative rock music festival in Barcelona. May-June 2007
 A long list of 69 artists and groups will be in the Estrella Damm Primavera Sound’07 Festival between May 31st and June 2nd, in the Parc del Forum of Barcelona, a modern and spacious environment with many different stages, each with it’s own personality. This alternative rock festival will count with well known and coming out figures like PATTI SMITH, SMASHING PUMPKINS, JONATHAN RICHMAN, NATHAN FAKE, KID KOALA. The spirit of the festival is to showcase independent and up and coming acts, as well as experienced bands with strong influence in the music that is done nowadays. Music and sounds from different places of Europe, North and South America, or Australia and rhythms of funk, pop, rock or folk mixed with techno and electronic sounds will sound in the full equipped, wide-open space of the Parc del Forum Site located in Barcelona by the Mediterranean Sea.

18 Festival de Guitarra de Barcelona

Vicente Amigo will open the festival at The Palau de la Musica

The Guitar Festival is back one year more to Barcelona. Known national and international names will form part of the program of the more than 20 concerts of the festival. The sounds of flamenco, classic guitar, fado, jazz, soul, funk, rock, r’n’b, drum and bass or pop blues will be joined by the sound of different guitars and voices from countries all around the world, from Japan or Australia, Brazil and Argentina, the USA, Cabo Verde and Portugal or Spain. The opening concert at the Palau de la Musica on March 22nd will be dedicated to the flamenco sound with Vicente Amigo, his guitar and his group. A labyrinth of emotion, melodies and rhythm. Names like RAIMUNDO AMADOR, NIÑA PASTORI, XUEFEI YANG, TOQUINHO, MARIZA, STANLEY CLARKE BAND, and many others will be on stage till the closing of the festival on the 8th of June. Together with the festival there is the night for different students of three different schools of Barcelona to show the work done on the IV Mostra de Joves Guitarristas. Six different proposals with a diverse program that it supposes an interesting route for the world of the contemporary classic guitar. Luz de Gas, L´Auditori, ZAC and Bikini will be the other scenes where the concerts will take place. Different spaces for different types of guitar music. 

EL FEILE ’07 - Saint Patrick’s Day in Barcelona

EL FEILE , March 2007

5 days of quality live performance professional and amateur in this Irish festival programme for St. Patrick’s Day.
El Feile prides to bring to Barcelona the very cream of Irish contemporary culture spanning everything from comedy to dance workshops; like one of Ireland's very best bands of the moment, BELLX1; or the traditional Arts in full effect led by The Causeway Classical Irish dance Company who will feature across the 5 day programme fusing performance and workshop; or the unique concert of Afro Celts lead singer Iarla O' Lionaird's new solo project and the current meteor award winner John Spillane. And the best of Irish Comedy with one of Ireland's true legends Kevin Gildea with Jarlath Regan.
Irish music, dance, comedy, workshops and sports in Barcelona.

VIII FESTIVAL DEL MIL.LENNI

Dance and Music Festival in Barcelona, December 06 - March 07

The 8th edition of the Festival of the Mil.lenni  continues in Barcelona during the months of January February and March with a varied proposal that will attract a very diverse public. The program contains different musical sorts of artists of national and international prestige. Still coming program includes the following artists: Tap Dogs, Salvatore Adamo, Labeque Sisters, Georges Moustaki, Falete, Ute Lemper, Pablo Milanese, Maceo Parker & WDR Big Band, the Boys of the Choir, Paloma San Basilio, Nena Daconte, Gilberto Gil, Jaume Aragall, Lucie Silvas and Goran Bregovic. The Palau of Catalan Music, the Teatre Tívoli and Barcelona Musical Teatre (BTM) are the scenes of 8th Festival of the Mil.lenni. You can get more information in  the official website of the festival:

37th Barcelona International Jazz Festival

Fall is time for Jazz in Barcelona. October to December 2006

From October 27th till December 5th, more than 350 musicians will be playing their music in the 41 concerts that will take place during the 37th Barcelona International Jazz Festival.
The Festival starts with a Concert of Phil Woods in the Palau de la Música Catalana in tribute to 50.º anniversary of the death of Charlie Parker. Maria Schneider, recently Grammy winner with its last record, Concert in the Garden,  Dave Brubeck with his quartet, back to Barcelona after 30 years of his last Concert in the city, Chick Corea, Stacey Kent, Chucho Valdes or Cesaria Évora are some of the names of the international singers that will appear through the Festival.
In addition to the traditional scenes of the Palau de la Música, L'Auditori, the Luz de Gas Club and the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, new scenes have been added this year to the festival like the Teatre Lliure, the Petit Palau and the Zacarías Jazz Club.

17 Festival de Guitarra de Barcelona 2006

Spring is time for the different sounds of the guitar. March to June 2006

An eclectic and cosmopolitan program with a nourished group of artists related to the world of the six cords form part of the 16 Concerts of this new edition of the Barcelona Guitar Festival, from March 22nd  till June 7th. The Festival starts with a Concert of Jackson Brown and guests specially prepared for the festival. Jose Mercé, Allan Holdsworth, Shemekai Copeland and Raphael Fays Trio will be the next concerts coming on. Different recently Grammy winner, as Dianna Reeves, will be also appearing on stage. Rhythms of funk, blues, rock, fusion or fado will be together with flamenco music or the classic Aranjuez Concert played by the known  guitar player Pepe Romero that will close the Festival together with Ichiro Suzuki that will play music from Frederic Mompou adapted for strings and guitar. Concerts will take place in the Palau de la Música, the Luz de Gas Club and Sala Bikini.