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Autumn Music Festivals in Barcelona you can’t miss
Autumn is a great time to visit Barcelona. While slowly greeting colder temperatures the city is bustling of cultural activities aimed to reach the local public as well as visitors. You will find some of the best indoors music festivals to ward off the chill at the most representative concert halls and bars of Barcelona where you will be able to mix with the local crowd. 1 – Festival del Mil·leni When November 2017-May 2018 Where Palau de la Música , Gran Teatre del Liceu , Sala Apolo, BARTS (Barcelona Arts on Stage), Sala Razzmatazz, Teatre Tívoli, Palau Sant Jordi, Auditori Forum, El Molino If you are an eclectic music…
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: MUSEU NACIONAL D’ART DE CATALUNYA
Last 21st May we went through a magic night in Barcelona with all its museums open as a courtesy of The Art Factories, launched by Barcelona City Council’s Culture Institute. Next Saturday, 16th July the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (National Art Museum of Catalonia) and from now on MNAC, will also celebrate open doors from 8pm to 1am. The MNAC is located in Montjuïc hill, right next to Plaça Espanya and at the top of the stairway of Barcelona’s biggest ornamental fountain, the Magic Fountain. For five hours, you’ll enjoy an evening of open house with free entrance and accompanied by art, music, cuisine and circus performances. Among the…
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Neil Young in Concert in Barcelona!
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real will delight us with themes of The Monsanto Years at Poble Espanyol in Barcelona next 20th June! Of course, not the only. Neil Young always returns to his classics and the setlist of this tour includes legends such as Old Man, Out On The Weekend, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush and Harvest Moon. Last year, Neil Young joined “Promise Of The Real”, the band lead by Lukas Nelson, son of Willie Nelson, to edit his 36th album: The Monsanto Years. Within these lyrics Young sends out an open and direct criticism to the business of agriculture and transgenic industry.…
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Sónar 2016
What is Sónar? Next 16th, 17th and 18th June it will take place in Barcelona the music and technology festival pioneering the cultural events wordlwide: Sónar 2016. Since 1994 this festival is the melting pot of the most creative artists and the most cutting-edge technology applied to the music. This 2016 edition will promote five great artists’ new albums: James Blake, Anohni, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kaytranada and Skepta. There is something more than concerts & dj’s in Sónar that makes this appointment unique in the world. Sónar by Day, Sónar by Night and Sónar+D. The venue during the day light will be Fira Montjuïc in Espanya Sq. and it will start…
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Adele in BCN
Will you experience the exhilaration of Adele live? Within the extensive tour throughout Europe (Adele 25 Tour), which started in Belfast last February, Adele is now performing in Barcelona. The upcoming concert scheduled firstly for 24th May has featured another night (25th May) to present her new “25” album to all her fans in the city, an album which has become the fastest-selling release of 2015. You’d better had hurried up in getting the tickets because they are all gone since last year. This latest album of her “25” happens to be the thrid in studio recording. It has been an unprecedented success worldwide after selling over 2.5 million of copies…
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Primavera Sound 2016: New Artists in Barcelona!
Get ready. Only few days separate us from the Primavera Sound 2016 event in Parc del Fòrum of Barcelona. From 1st to 5th June we are hosting in the city the best eclectic artists of the music and some recently added new muscial lineups which promise to be a dense programme of events! For the Sound gourmets: the provocative and transgressor Canadian artist Peach will be performing on Thursday 2nd June. The historical component of the American band Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo will open this day with his new group “El Rayo”. The afternoon of Friday 3rd will be led by the folk music of the duo “Los Hermanos Cubero”…
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Welcome Back to Barcelona, Bruce Springsteen
Next 14th May, Bruce Springsteen is back onstage in Barcelona. As in 1988 and 2008, the legendary show will take place in Camp Nou, FC. Barcelona stadium. Unsurprisingly, tickets were already gone only few minutes after they were available online. Although online tickets are already sold out, you may be lucky and get one in resale in the streets of the city. For his distinctive voice and his lengthy and the energetic stage performances, the American songwriter and singer and musician and so on has received a big number of awards. For exemple: 20 Grammy, 2 Golden Globes and even 1 Oscar. The evening of 14th May will be unforgetable…
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It Rains Plans and More
We could actually say that in Barcelona it rains down 4 days in April. However, in one of those what seemed to be a sunny morning becomes a grey and overcast sky. Suddenly, instead of 4 drops, we are facing a tremendous downpour. Do not despair. We know you have been planning your trip for days and finally your getaway weekend and your plans have been boiled as the weatherman played a trick on you. Again, do not despair. In the following lines we are giving you some PLAN B to your scheduled visit to Park Güell, the wander down Las Ramblas to the Port… Still go have a drink!…
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Madonna in Barcelona
¡Last chance! Tomorrow 24th November Madonna is in concert in Palau Sant Jordi of Barcelona. This is the Queen of Pop tenth tour “The Rebel Heart” where Madonna has been pronouncing worldwide her thirteenth album “Rebel Heart” from the first days of September. As a curiosity of this new tour, Madonna called on a Zaragoza tailor to sew bullfighting suits for herself and her dancing crew. The well-known typical Spanish bullfighting suit Traje de Luces has been one of the thematic chosen by Madonna, who claims to always pick all her costumes consciously. Whether controversy arises or not around this, what is true is that one more time the singer…
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‘Mamma Mia’ the Hilarious Love Story
From Continental Hotels in Barcelona we are very pleased to announce the return of Mamma Mia Musical to our city. The worldwide cross-border phenomenon made up from the unforgettably catchy songs of ABBA is coming back to scene next 26th November in Teatre Tívoli. For three months you will be able to enjoy this delightful comedy while dancing, singing and laughing from the brightest side of life. ‘Mamma Mia’ is a love story which takes off in an idyllic Greek island with the upcoming wedding of Sophie, a 20-year-old girl whose father identity is yet to be revealed. All in all, the Musical is a rush of positive energy that…
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Barcelona, or one of the most photographed cities in the world
This autumn, Google Photos ranked Barcelona in the third place among the most photographed cities on the planet, only surpassed by New York and Paris. Google Photos is currently the largest online storage space where 100 million people let their pictures rest. Have you ever wondered why? If one thinks of Barcelona as a collection of iconic monuments and spots, it would be undoubtedly easy to understand the magnetic attraction exerted on tourists by historic streets like the Ramblas, commercial venues such as Passeig de Gràcia, temples like the Sagrada Famìlia, thrilling parks like the Park Güell or the incredible modernist façades that dot the whole city. YOU HAVE TO…
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U2 back to Barcelona
U2 back to Barcelona. The Irish group is immersed in his last tour 360º Tour. The tour will visit a total of 19 cities. The Innocence + Experience Tour 2015 U2 tour continues selling out in Europe and North America. U2 will perform in Barcelona on 4 concerts, we will see them back to Barcelona on 5th, 6th, 9th and 10th October at the Palau Sant Jordi. This is their only stop in Spain. You are still in time to buy your ticket for the concert of U2 in Barcelona. You can buy it online at Ticketmaster. * Tickets for the U2 concert in Barcelona are out of stock for…
