Palounge: From Monday, 2nd of August till Sunday 29th, from 21 to 22h, the Plaça del Palau will offer nights of Cuban music (Monday), tango (Tuesday), sogwriting music (Wednesday), rumba (Thursday), Brazilian sounds (Friday) and Celtic (Sunday).
Free access.
To check the program, click here.
Last July it became possible to see the metropolitan area of Barcelona from the air. The flight is arranged by a service named BCNSkytours and leaves from the heliport located at the Moll de Barcelona, immediately after crossing the Puente Europa (Europa Bridge).
This is a treat for people who do not suffer from a fear of heights. The trip lasts about ten minutes and costs 70 Euros per person. Each helicopter can accommodate up to five passengers and reaches an altitude of 500 metres above sea level. It is the perfect distance to escape the city noise while still enjoying clear visibility from the air.
Jazz
Barcelona has a flourishing jazz community comprised of local talent as well as musicians from NY, London, and elsewhere abroad. Jazz can be found through out the city very night at Jamboree in Plaza Real. Monday night is their Jam Session, 3€. Make sure if you’re going, you get there early (10:30pm) before it gets too packed. The Jazz Room isn’t quite as centrally located, but it’s always worth the trip (Cova del Drac C/Vallmajor, 33; FCG Muntaner). Bel Luna on Rambla Cataluña just above Plaza Cataluña is a jazz restaurant with live music nightly. Dos Trece in El Raval has live music downstairs with a jazz jam session Tuesday night (c/Carme 12am). The Harlem Jazz Club doesn’t stick strictly to its name. On c/Comtessa de Sobriadiel, 8, near the often sketchy Plaza George Orwell, has great music every night, but it isn’t always jazz, with no cover charge during the week.
Rock and Concerts
Big concerts in Barcelona from Clapton to Madonna are held in the Palau de San Jordi on Montjuic. ServiCaixa and Telentrada or visit FNAC for tickets. Razzmatazz (Almogavers 122, tel:93 320 82 00) has medium sized shows for the likes of Anni DiFranco. Bikini (Deu i Mata, 105 behind L’Illa mall), Luz de Gas, and its neighbor Sala B (Muntaner 246, 244) have live music of variety of sorts most nights around 12, later transforming into discoteques, as does La Boite on Av. Diagonal, 477. Irish pubs such as George & the Dragon (c/Diputación with Paseo de Gracia), Irish Winds in Port Olympic, and the Filharmonic (Mallorca, 204) tend to have live rock music almost ever night usually without a cover charge where you can enjoy a pint or 3 with your live music in a smaller setting.
| Free outdoor jazz & classical concerts in BCN parks |
Event dates: June to end August 2010
Event location: Various parks in Barcelona
“Música als Parcs.” From the last week of June until the end of August every year you can enjoy free outdoor concerts in many of Barcelona’s parks. The concerts are called “Music in the Parks” and are organized by the Barcelona City Council. The program of summer concerts in parks was started more than ten years ago with the aim of bringing high quality music for everyone during the summer nights. All concerts are free and intended for all audiences.
The first concert of 2010 Musica als Parcs is with Sant Adreu Jazz Band – the youngest big band in Europe on – Wednesday 2nd June at 20.00 in the Jardins del Teatre Grec
The auditorium of the Botanical Gardens of Caixa Girona, situated in an exceptional location next to the sea, host the Jardins de Cap Roig Festival for another year running. The festival was created by Caixa Girona Foundation, with the intention of creating a summer festival that showcases different stylistic genres on the Center of the Costa Brava.
Dance, world music, opera, jazz and classical music form the basis of the festival program, which seeks to offer rigor, quality, originality and creativity, in addition to its diversity. These qualities underlie performances that are aimed at a wide public audience. Great figures from the world of theatre have brought, and will continue to bring, their art to the Cap Roig auditorium, a benchmark amongst summer festivals.
Well consolidated and endorsed by a public audience that fills the auditorium year after year, the Jardins de Cap Roig Festival has become a meeting point where the complicity between artists and spectators create singular and special nights.
30 july Rosana
31 july Diana Krall
01 august Sinéad O’Connor
02 august Roger Hodgson
03 august Antonio Orozco
04 august Marlango
05 august Julio Iglesias
06 august Julio Iglesias
07 august Ainhoa Arteta with the Vallès Symphony Orchestra
08 august The Little Magic Flute
10 august Macaco
12 august Boeing Boeing
13 august Diego ‘El Cigala’
14 august Pasión Vega
15 august Stars of the New York City Ballet
16 august Charles Aznavour
17 august Charles Aznavour
More info: www.festival.caproig.cat
Large venues: discovering the city
Sunday 1st August 2009 to Wednesday 1st September 2010
Although the Mas i Mas Group was originally founded on the idea of providing regular live music in small venues, in early 2000 it felt it necessary to export part of their musical activity to larger venues, in an effort to publicize a host of artists who triumphed in our venues and bring our work to new audiences as well as expand the group’s business to the artistic promotion sector. This was, among others, one of the triggers that lead us to consider an annual festival in the city of Barcelona during the month of August.
The highlight this year will be a free concert in Plaça Reial as a tribute to the Jamboree club which celebrate 50 years of music in 2010. The festival takes place in various venues in Barcelona. The Palau de la Musica chamber music room will host three Latin and jazz concerts daily during the festival. La Pedrera takes part with three classical concerts a day (not on the roof though). Tarantos flamenco bar will have six flamenco sessions a day. And there will be concerts and sessions at Moog, The Auditori, Luz de Gas and Jamboree.
More info: www.masimas.com
This summer from the 17th until the 19th of June get electrified with one of the most important world advanced music and multimedia art festival. This year don’t miss performances by The Chemical Brothers, Roxy Music, Air, LCD Soundsystem, Plastikman, Jónsi, Dizzee Rascal, 2manydjs, Booka Shade, Hot Chip, Fuck Buttons, Aeroplane, King Midas Sound, Broadcast, The Sugarhill Gang, Matthew Herbert’s One Club, Flying Lotus, Pete Tong, Joy Orbison, Zomby, New Young Pony Club, Roska, Necro Deathmort, Mary Anne Hobbs, David M, John Talabot, Bradien, Speech Debelle, Emilio José, Uffie, Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu, Hudson Mohawke, Carte Blanche (DJ Mehdi & Riton), Nosaj Thing Visual Show, Delorean, The Pinker Tones, Noaipre, Sandwell District, bRUNA, Bomba Estéreo, Cora Novoa, Cluster, Mike Slott, Aufgang, bcn216 + Tristan Perich, Bflecha, The Slew featuring Kid Koala, Caspa feat. MC Rod Azlan, Eclair Fifi & John Computer, Machinedrum, Cabo San Roque & Orquestra Mecànica de la França Xica, American Men, The Blessings, Elektro Guzzi, Zigmat, dp-S, Lesley Flanigan, Post War Years, bcn216 + Cristian Vogel, Ricard Marxer & Oscar Sol: Japó, Robot Koch, Larytta, Round Table Knights, Goldielocks, Tim and Puma Mimi.
Sonar Festival Tickets
Tickets are on sale now.
The Barcelona Urban Jungle is a new concept in adventure space: An urban adventure park. Now there is no need to leave the city to enjoy sporting and adventure activities: Ziplines, netting, swinging ropes, bungee jumping, bridges and trunks on platforms up to 9m high are some of the more than 50 attractions on the different circuits that are suitable for children and families as well as thrill-seekers. Official web site: http://www.barcelonaboscurba.com
Ask for circuits, tariffs and reservations by phone calling +34-93 117 34 26
Sunny Singh, the choreographer and dancer born in Mumbai, India, transmits the most authentic and original spirit of Bollywood, the film industry and Indian dance. With an experience of more than a decade in Bollywood film industry .. Participation in over 53 films, several foreign productions in Hong Kong and London. Also as an expert choreographer offers the most faithful style and sense of current and modern Bollywood dance. Currently in Spain has its own set of artistic, BAILAMOS BOLLYWOOD, teaching Bollywood dance classes to anyone who wishes.
Come and enjoy a Bollywood dance Class!!!
Where: Escuela de baile “asisebaila” (Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes, 432)
More info: Ph. 687 93 17 87 www.asisebaila.com
Vicente Ferrer organization, founded by a former Jesuit priest, has been working for over 50 years to better the condition of the “untouchable” class and other disenfranchised people in India. The foundation is based in Anantapur, a remote region in the Andra Pradesh region, devastated by constant drought. In that region, the most marginalized in Indian society live in the midst of a dry and rocky landscape. Forty years ago in that rural, abandoned region, Vicente Ferrer dedicated himself to planning the “miracle seed,” as he termed it, giving the farmers their first rupees through microloans. Through these means, the first wells were built, crops were planted and the first businesses started. In 1969, before he received international awards such as the Prince Asturias prize, Ferrer wrote, “I’ve declared war on pain and suffering.” Those words help start a peaceful war that motivated millions of people.
The foundation has developed a colossal organization that today supports 2,278 villages and benefits 2.5 million people. Today, Anantapur has three hospitals, an HIV/AIDS center, and 11 rural clinics, more than 1,180 schools where 100% of the local children are enrolled, 21,000 homes for the poor and 1,000 homes for the disabled.
Foundation’s website (only in Spanish): www.fundacionvicenteferrer.org
Information in English: download PDF
image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace
