More than 12,000 people have gone through the sixty activities programmed in these three months of the Folk International Tradicionàrius festival, a 36th edition that has paid tribute to its founder, Jordi Fábregas, and which has attracted 20% more spectators that in pandemic and prepandemic seasons. The closing of the festival will take place this Friday with the traditional parade of the Colles Culturals de Gràcia that will leave at 7.15 pm from the Plaza de la Vila and travel through the streets of the Barcelona neighborhood to the Plaza de Anna Frank. Then the youth OMAC, the Traditional Roots Music Orchestra, formed by young people between 16 and 22 years of age, will perform and will premiere Transatlàntic, a session of danceable pieces designed for the young audience that includes genres such as bolero, chachachá, tango or rumba.
Over the course of these three months, the Tradicionàrius festival has offered new proposals around traditional music without closing itself to experimentation with formats such as trap or electronica. Thus, the performance of the rapper Tesa and Jonatan Penalba has coexisted with performances such as the Grand Ensemble of Traditional Music of the ESMUC with Eduard Iniesta; Los Malagatos; the Sereia Festival (Forró) or Maestro Espada.
During this time, 18 new recording works and shows have been presented, working together with the Barnasants festival or the Trad d’autor cycle. These collaborations have produced the concerts by the Alba Careta Group, Miquel Gil and Noelia Llorens Titana, Joana Gomila and Laia Vallès or Arnau Obiols and La Maria. Especially notable has been the collaboration with the Palau de la Música, which has allowed the concerts of Marala and Tanxungueiras to be held, with more than 2,000 attendees.
After the closing of the festival, CAT Tradicionàrius starts the Trad Primavera’23 with a folk cycle of activities and concerts during the months of April, May and June with concerts by Samfaina de Colors, Alba Careta and Pep Gimeno Botifarra, as well as resuming the cycle of concerts Arran d’Escenari, as well as the 26th edition of La Taverla del CAT, which will feature book presentations and talks.
