Music will return one more year to the gardens of the Pedralbes palace by the hand of Nits de Barcelona, ​​the festival that was presented this Thursday in the same space on the Diagonal with some thirty dates that clear up the last question that remained to be discovered among the great Catalan summer festivals. Names like Natalia Lafourcade, Las Migas, Sebastián Yatra or Diego el Cigala will contribute their art between June 27 and July 26. An event that runs at the hands of the promoter Clipper’s, winner of the public tender organized last February by the Generalitat to grant management of the event for three years. La Vanguardia subscribers have a 10% discount on the price of tickets, provided they are purchased at Entradas de Vanguardia.
One of the novelties of this festival will be the division of the shows into two phases. The first will cover ten concerts, from June 27 to July 6, to be held in the garden area with a capacity of 800 people, while the second, from July 7 to 26, will take place in an auditorium located in front of the Pedralbes palace with a capacity for 2,400 attendees. A new format for a new era under the helm of Clipper’s accompanied by a name change with respect to the concert series that, since 2013, has been taking place during the summer at the former royal residence on Avinguda Diagonal.
“We have not looked at each other in the previous festival,” Juli Guiu, president of Clipper’s, has made clear. “We have been governed by a public contest” and the specific rules that it has set. In this sense, he has ruled out the existence of a rivalry with Concert Studio, and played down the importance of the presence of the name Pedralbes in two festivals. “When you do a festival, you put the name of where you do itâ€, he pointed out, making it clear, in reference to the Alma festival, that he considers “one more festival of the many that are held in Barcelonaâ€. Of course, Guiu pointed out that he, as a promoter, “would have put the name of Poble Espanyol”.
The other great protagonist of these Nits de Barcelona will be the Village, the gastronomic proposal that will be carried out by well-known names in Barcelona restaurants such as Deleito, Madrelievito, Kao, Casa Pepe, Camarasa, Nomo, Sauleda and Cal Blay Food Lovers, a varied offer that will be organized by White Summer.
The first phase of the Nits de Barcelona will be dominated by music of Catalan origin from its first concert, starring former Txarango Sergi Carbonell, who will present the songs from Refugi, his first solo work. Next, it will be the turn of artists like Sara Roy, the Delafé and Flores Azules duo, the winner of Eufòria, Mariona Escoda, or the rapper and judge of the same program, Lildami. There will also be a night for the pianist Meritxell Nedderman, the festive music of Buhos or the flamenco sound of Las Migas, winners of a Latin Grammy for best album Ffamenco por Libres, his latest work. And of course we cannot forget the rock melodies of Los Elefantes and the colorful choreographies to the hip hop rhythm of the Brodas Bros, who will present their show Ejército de la luz.
The most international names have been reserved for the Pedralbes palace stage, starting on July 7, such as the Mexican Natalia Lafourcade, who returns to the road with the album De todas las flores after taking a long break in on 2022. A main course that gives rise to a varied musical offer, from the most daring pop of Alizzz to the soprano voice of Ainhoa ​​Arteta. To these names must be added those of those artists who present a new album, such as Els Amics de les Arts y su Allà on volia, or David Bisbal, who will present a new tour and new songs, those of the album that will appear in the coming months. And regular Barcelona summer visitors such as Sebastián Yatra, Ara Malikian or Diego el Cigala could not be missing, either, who will accompany international artists such as the American Melody Gardot, the Colombians Morat, the Hungarian pianist Balázs Havasi or the veteran formation The Manhattan Transfer, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary on the Barcelona stage. A total of 30 “Nits†for a festival that from the outset has a clear objective of equaling or surpassing past and future offers for the Barcelona summer, a competition that will undoubtedly benefit those who decide to spend this summer in the Catalan capital.
