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When: Every Monday
Time: 22.00 h - 00.30 h
Where: Sidecar Factory Club, Plaza Reial 7
Price: 7€ (with Cons.)
A karaoke like no other, where everybody can be turn into rock stars and, over the course of 3 hours, create an exciting show where no two nights are ever the same.
Jan 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13 & 19
Strauss Festival Orchestra
The Strauss Festival Orchestra is in reality the Symphonic Orchestra of the Minsk National Opera that takes this name during the travels during the New Year’s Eve Great Concert.
The programme features famous waltzes, marches and polka’s of Johann Strauss, music that is typical for the imperialistic 19th century
Tue Jan 10
Georges Moustaki
Georges Moustaki is a singer and songwriter from France of Greek Sephardic origin, best known for his poetic rhythm, eloquent simplicity and his hundreds of romantic songs. He has written songs for Edith Piaf, Dalida, Barbara, Brigitte Fontaine and Herbert Pagani.
He became worldly famous with his first album ‘Le Métèque’. After twenty years of career, he has more than 20 albums, he has written more than 300 songs for himself and other artists, as well as for the cinema, theatre and TV. Now he is coming to share his last album ‘Vagabond’.
Fri Jan 11
Babyshambles
Babyshambles is one of the most promising bands in
Mon Jan 14
Iron & Wine
Iron & Wine is the stage and recording name of folk rock singer-songwriter Sam Beam. He released his first Iron & Wine album, The Creek Drank the Cradle, on the Sub Pop label in 2002 in his home studio. Featuring acoustic guitars, banjo, and slide guitar, the album’s music has been compared to that of Nick Drake,[2] Simon and Garfunkel,[3] Neil Young, Elliott Smith, and John Fahey.
Beam’s second album, Our Endless Numbered Days (2004), was recorded in a professional studio with a significant increase in fidelity.
The third full-length Iron & Wine album, titled The Shepherd’s Dog, was released September 25, 2007. Contributors included Joey Burns and Paul Niehaus of Calexico, as well as jazz musicians Matt Lux and Rob Burger.
Tue Jan 15
JawaJean /trip-hop
This duet composed with the actress and singer Najwa Nimri and the producer Carlos Jean, started in 1997 with “Like Those Roses”.
Now they are promoting their new album “Till it breaks”.
Tue Jan 15
Helloween + Gamma Ray + Axxis
Axxis -
With the experience of over ten years, Axxis play melodic hard rock with a high degree of creativity, lots of perseverance and the unconditional ambition to draw audience interest to their music.
Gamma Ray -
Delivering high class, diverse, brilliantly executed Heavy Metal with a dominating catchyness and a ‘Made In Germany’- mark of quality.
Thu Jan 17
Miriam Makeba
9:30pm Palau de
As a Guinean delegate to the United Nations, she won the Dag Hammarskjöld Peace Prize in 1986. Nelson Mandela persuaded her to return to
Thu Jan 17
Lorin Maazel
Lorin Maazel is one of today’s pre-eminent conductors, appearing regularly at concert and opera houses throughout the world. During the past thirty years, Maestro Maazel has conducted more than one hundred and thirty orchestras in over four thousand opera and concert performances.
He has served as Artistic Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Music Director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (1965-71), Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra (1972-82), Principle Guest Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London (1976-1980), General Manager and Artistic Director of the Vienna State Opera (1982-1984), and Music Director of the Orchestre National de France (1988-1990), as well as being the Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 1988. In September 1993, he assumed the position of Music Director of the renowned Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra of Munich.
His discography encompasses over 300 recordings. The recipient of ten Grand Prix du Disque awards, he is presently completing the recording of all operas by Puccini. He has recorded the complete symphonic works of Beethoven, Mahler, Rachmaninov, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky.
Notably among the innumerable decorations, honorary doctorates and awards for achievement with which Lorin Maazel has been honoured are the Legion d’Honneur in France, the Commander’s Cross of Merit in Germany and the Commander of the Lion in Finland. He was named an honorary life member of the Israel Philharmonic in 1985 when he conducted their 40th anniversary concert.
Maazel will continue to serve as Music Director with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra until 2002. He is also taking a year out to dedicate more time to his career as a composer. Today, Lorin Maazel is at the zenith of his career…conductor, composer and violinist - a legend in his time.
Thu Jan 17
Obituary
Obituary is one of the pioneering bands of the death metal genre. The band came from Tampa, Florida, and was founded as Xecutioner in 1985. Shortly before the release of its first album, they changed their name to Obituary. It still remains an influential band of the Florida death metal movement that arose in the late 1980s.
Its 1992 release The End Complete has also more than 103,378 copies in the United States alone. Obituary’s reunion album, Frozen in Time, was released in 2005. The band’s first live DVD, Frozen Alive, was released in January of 2007.
Obituary is currently signed with Candlelight Records for its seventh album Xecutioner’s Return, which was released on August 28, 2007.
Sat, Jan 19
Magnetic Tango - Piazzola’s Magic
This is a homage to Astor Piazzola, one of the greatest tango composers of all times. The concert-dance-musical performance features several musicians and performing some of Piazzola’s most emblematic songs and compositions.
The programme includes pieces like “Milonga del Angel”, “Preludio para el Año 3001″, 5 Tango Sensations, “Jacinto Chiclana” and “Balada para un Loco”.
Sun, Jan 20
microBCN+La explosión 8bit (chiptune music)
This name chiptune music was given to the lo-fi style created on old computer processors found in Gameboys, Commodore64, Ataris, etc. Until recently it was categorized as experimental music, but now it is experiencing a radical and creative rebirth in all musical genres.
MicroBCN (micro barcelona) is the Spanish HQ of Micromusic, a global community with more than 30 branches throughout the world. It’s Barcelona members are a local collective working in music production, visuals, circuit bending, clothing, workshops, exhibitions and live shows that promote 8bit culture.
Wed, Jan 23
The Commitments, Dublin’s Saviours of Soul
Following a worldwide media tour in 1991 to promote the global success of the Alan Parker film of Roddy Doyle’s acclaimed novel, the band went their separate ways. During the promotion, there were so many requests for the band to tour, that by 1993, The Commitments had been reborn as a real, working band, playing their special “Dublin Soul”.
Their live concerts feature all the great soul classics from the film & multi-million selling soundtrack & live albums: Mustang Sally, Try A Little Tenderness, Mr. Pitiful, Destination Anywhere, Chain Of Fools, Take Me To The River, In The Midnight Hour & many more!
Wed Jan 23
Emir Kusturica + The No Smoking Orchestra
Emir Kusturica born in Sarajevo in 1954 is a filmmaker and actor. He moved to USA where he used to be a Professor at Columbia University. After going back to Bosnia he got involved with the musical group The No Smoking Orchestra.
The No Smoking band (Zabranjeno Pusenje in their original Serbo-Croatian language) was born in Sarajevo in 1980 and soon became the most significant musical expression of “New Primitivism”, a cultural resistance movement created in the transition years of post-Tito Yugoslavia.
After two years of live performances in small Sarajevo concert halls, in 1984 the No Smoking (which musical critics have defined as a Gypsy techno-rock band) recorded their first album, “Das ist Walter”. One of the songs in the album, “Zenica blues”, was soon to hit the top charts in Yugoslavia with more than 100,000 copies sold.
After his tour ‘Life is a Miracle’ they are coming back with ‘Time of the gypsies’.
Thu, Jan 24
Orquesta Sinfónica de Pittsburgh
Actually, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is considered one of the “Big Five” better orchestras in the United States of America.
The Director Rafael Frühbeck from Burgos, who has a solid and international career, will be directing the orchestra.
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will perform the music of Wagner and Brahms.
Fri, Jan 25
Toquinho
Antonio Pecci Filho, Toquinho, is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. He is well-known for his collaborations, as composer and performer, with Vinicius de Moraes.
His first big hit was composed in 1970 with Jorge Benjor, “Que Maravilha” (What a Wonder). That same year he was invited by Vinicius de Moraes, co-writer of the worldwide hit song “Garota de Ipanema” (The Girl from Ipanema), to participate in a series of shows in Buenos Aires, forming a solid partnership that would continue for 11 years and produce 120 songs, 25 records and over a thousand shows.
After the death of Vinicius de Moraes in 1980, he went on to pursue a solo career, often performing with other talented musicians like Paulinho da Viola, Danilo Caymmi, Paulinho Nogueira and Chico Buarque. His last album (1996) ‘Toquinho e Suas Cançoes Preferidas’ (Toquinho and his Preferred Songs), is the compilation of his greatest hits.
Wed, Jan 30
The Golden Gate Quartet
The Golden Gate Quartet is the most successful of all of the African-American gospel music groups who sang in the jubilee quartet style. Founded as the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet in Norfolk, Virginia in 1934 by A. C. “Eddie” Griffin, Robert “Peg” Ford, Henry Owens, and Bill Johnson, they began as a traditional jubilee quartet, combining the clever arrangements associated with barbershop quartets with rhythms borrowed from the blues and jazz.
The makeup of the group changed over the years, as some members were drafted during the war and new members were brought in to replace those who had retired or left to join other groups. The Quartet appeared in films such as Star Spangled Rhythm (1942), Hit Parade of 1943 (1943), Hollywood Canteen (1944), and the Danny Kaye film A Song Is Born (1948). In the latter film, they performed the songs “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho” and part of “A Song Is Born” with Louis Armstrong and Virginia Mayo.
The Golden Gate Quartet was inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998.
Jan 30, 31. Feb 1, 2, 3
Joaquin Cortes, “Mi Soledad” (My Solitude)
Joaquin Cortes (born in Cordoba, Spain in February 22, 1969) is a classically trained ballet and flamenco dancer from Spain. In 1984, he was accepted as a member of Spain’s prestigious national ballet company. He traveled the world with the Spanish National Ballet, performing in important venues such as the Cosmopolitan Opera House of New York and the Kremlin Palace in Moscow. During his stint with the Spanish National Ballet, he also became a principal solo performer known for his phenomenal stamina and athleticism.
Cortes formed the Joaquin Cortes Flamenco Ballet company and launched his first international tour ‘Cibayi’ in 1992.
In 1995, in addition to being featured in two international films- ‘La flor de mi secreto’ (The Flower of My Secret) and Carlos Saura’s ‘Flamenco’, he embarked on ‘Pasión Gitana’ (Gypsy Passion). ‘Pasión Gitana’ marked the beginning of Cortes’ recognition for not only his prowess as a dancer, but also as a choreographer and artistic director.
In “Mi Soledad” a minimalist setting and an intimate light give rise to a spectacle in which through their own personal experience brings in the deeper of the human being to begin a trip through their emotions.
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Time: 6pm
Place: Moll de La Fusta to Montjuic
This is a popular cultural tradition in Spain and Latin America. Barcelona chooses to celebrate the event at sea and crowds gather at the harbour steps of the Moll de Fusta to witness the glorious arrival of the three Wise Men.
The first sightings of the kings’ boat are met with fireworks and a riotous cacophany of fog horns from a flotilla gathered in the port, while a 21-gun salute welcomes them to dry land. A colourful procession, led by the mayor and the metropolitan guard, heads towards the city centre past some of the city’s major monuments, culminating at the floodlit fountain of Montuic, where classical music written especially for the event is played.
It’s a great spectacle that you shouldn’t miss!
image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace