This is what Barcelona sounds like
A new edition of the Sons de Ciutat cycle fills Barcelona's public spaces with the most diverse musical styles, between 5 October and 30 November.
Jazz, funk, classical sounds, rock, electronic, folk… All of these styles and more will be ringing in your ears as you stroll along the streets from 5 October, in a new six-monthly edition of the Sons de Ciutat music cycle. The artists are waiting for you in the public space and will perform for you the soundtrack of the Barcelona of today.
Sons de Ciutat is a programme of concerts from a municipal initiative that takes place throughout the year, between 5 October and 22 March, and is spread across venues in the city’s ten districts. The complete programme is made up of three different cycles: the late-autumn cycle that is starting now (until 30 November), a second Christmas cycle between 7 December and 3 January, and a spring programme between 1 February and 22 March.
In total there will be around two hundred concerts by around sixty of the most interesting artists, groups and emerging bands of the moment, distributed among some eighty specially selected venues, which will be scattered, as we say, throughout the different neighbourhoods of the city.
This Barcelona soundtrack provided by Sons de Ciutat makes a stop in this late-autumn edition at the rumba, a genre born in the 20th century and which, precisely, has Barcelona as its epicentre. Plataforma per la Defensa de la Rumba Catalana (Platform for the Defence of Catalan Rumba) has taken part in the rumba programme, becoming a new musical agent in it. This new musical style is added to the incorporation in the previous edition of opera and lied, which will continue to sound in the streets thanks to Fundació Victòria dels Àngels and Fundació Òpera Catalunya.
In addition, Sons de Ciutat has the support of major Barcelona festivals, including Primavera Sound, BAM, Terrats en cultura, Say it Loud, Primavera Labels, Jazz I am and L’hora del Jazz, as well as the music schools ESMUC, Jam Session, Conservatori Superior del Liceu and Taller de Músics. These schools and these festivals have collaborated in bringing together musicians from scenes ranging from rock and electronic to lyrical music.
If you don’t want to miss a series of concerts in public venues that showcase the city’s most interesting emerging bands, come and take a tour of Barcelona following the itinerary of the Sons de Ciutat series.
Check out the complete programme of Sons de Ciutat on their website and go for a walk with your ears wide & ready.