The Backpackers Hostel Blog

Tue 8 Jul

10pm at Pavelló Olímpic Badalona (C/Ponent, 143-161) Buy tickets

Lenny Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arranger whose “retro” style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk, and ballads.

In addition to singing lead and backing vocals, Kravitz often plays all the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and percussion himself when recording. He won the Grammy Award for “Best Male Rock Vocal Performance” four years in a row from 1999 to 2002. He has sold an estimated thirty million albums worldwide.

(Taken from www.lennykravitz.com and www.wikipedia.org)

Tue 17 Jun

8pm at Gran Teatre del Liceu (La Rambla, 51-59) Buy tickets (Sold out)

Jose Carreras born in Barcelona, studied music in his hometown. In 1970 he started his professional career in the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona in NABUCCO and LUCREZIA BORGIA.

His meteoric musical career resulted in early debuts at the world’s most prestigious opera theatres and festivals, including the Theatre alla Scala of Milan ; the New York Metropolitan Opera House; San Francisco Opera; the Vienna Staatsoper; London’s Royal Opera House; the Oper of Munich; Chicago’s Lyric Opera; and the Festivals of Salzburg; Aix en Provence; Edimburgh and Verona. This is a tribute to Josep Carreras to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu

Works by Eduard Toldrà, Francesco Paolo Tosti, Giacomo Puccini and others.

(Taken from www.josepcarreras.com and www.liceubarcelona.com)

Sat 14 Jun

9pm at L’Auditori (Lepant, 150)  25 a 45€  Buy tickets

Chenoa is a famous Argentine-Spanish female music artist who became successful after appearing on the TV contest “Operación Triunfo“. Her music style could be described in the United States mostly as “pop”.

Most of her music is in Spanish, although a few tracks on each album were recorded in English. Although her albums are not readily available in the US record shelves as they are in Spain and Latin America, they can be found on the Internet. She has sold more than 1,000,000 records since 2002. (Taken from www.wikipedia.org and http://cancionesarolete.com)

Wed 25 Jun – Sat 2 Aug

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Click here to see complete programme Click here to Buy tickets

This is the 29th edition of the Barcelona Grec 2008 Festival , with a huge programme of more than 40 theatre, dance and music performances.

Many of the bigger music events take place in the Poble Espanyol, with artists such as The Brothers Size, Vanessa da Mata, Hiroaki Umeda, as well as international pop stars. Other big name highlights include Marianne Faithfull at the Teatre Grec, and the highly acclaimed contemporary dance maestro Trisha Brown. It is recommended to book your tickets well in advance.

(Taken from www.barcelonafestival.com; http://gothamist.com; popnewss.files.wordpress.com; www.eu-japanfest.org; www.icatfm.cat).

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1 The Brothers Size (Theatre)
2 Vanessa da Mata (Music)
3 Hiroaki Umeda (Dance)
4 Nit de Circ (Circus Night)

Mon 23 Jun

Picture by Marcelo Aurelio

The Saint John’s Festival is the midsummer solstice celebration. It is celebrated on 23rd June every year and is also called “La Nit de Sant Joan” – Saint John’s Night.

The summer solstice is the day of the year when the night and day are of equal length and in ancient times this was considered the most important event of the solar year.

Fire use to be the symbol of abundance, purity and fertility; that is why fire is the central element of this Festival in the form of fireworks and bonfires on the beaches.

At midnight, everybody can participate in the ritual of fire purification. The tradition is, that you should write on a paper the things you want to change in your life, throw it into the flames and then jump three times.

Each “barrio” has its own firework display and all-night bonfires. The biggest celebration is at Montjuic with a fabulous fireworks display and a massive bonfire. (Taken from www.arte-redes.com and www.barcelonayellow.com)