Municipal music schools of Barcelona!
Plaça de Sant Jaume
Friday 7 at 18.30 h
For the second year in a row, the municipal music schools are going to fill Plaça de Sant Jaume with melodies! Students of all ages will delight passers-by with their best pieces which they have worked on through long-term programmes, workshops and different musical activities.
Walk with Joan Amades: Santa Eulàlia
Setting off from Fossar de les Moreres
Friday 7 and Sunday 9
Free activity
You will discover the corners and places in the city related to the legend of Santa Eulàlia alongside the Joan Amades Cultural Association. Accompanied by live music, enjoy the explanations of a guide who will reveal all the secrets of the saint’s story.
Advance registration on the website required: www.joanamades.cat
Group 1 leaves on 7 February at 6.30 pm
Group 2 leaves on 7 February at 7 pm
Group 3 leaves on 9 February at 5.30 pm
Group 4 leaves on 9 February at 6 pm
The Eagle’s Protocols
Sets off from Plaça Sant Jaume
Friday 7 at 8 pm
Route: Plaça de Sant Jaume, Carrer de Jaume I, Plaça de l’Àngel, Carrer de l’Argenteria, Carrer dels Sombrerers, Placeta de Montcada, Passeig del Born, Carrer de Santa Maria, Fossar de les Moreres and Plaça de Santa Maria.
8.40 pm: Honours of the Coronela de Barcelona and Trabucaires at the Fossar de les Moreres.
9 pm: Entry into Santa Maria del Mar Basilica with the Marxa de l’Àliga de la Ciutat (March of the City Eagle). Dance of the giants of Santa Maria del Mar, the Lleó de Barcelona (Lion of Barcelona) and the City Eagle inside the basilica.
The City Eagle leads a solemn parade accompanied by the Coronela de Barcelona, the Espremulls Minstrels, the Lion of Barcelona, the giants of Santa Maria del Mar and the Perot Rocaguinarda Trabucaires [blunderbuss troupe].
The Eagle's Protocols, which open and announce the start of Barcelona’s annual winter festival, end with one of the most moving and important acts of the Santa Eulàlia Festivities: the traditional Dance of the Eagle in the presbytery and before the high altar of the Santa Maria del Mar Basilica.
Tradicionàrius and Santa Eulàlia
Plaça de Sant Jaume
Friday 7 at 20.15 pm
Tradicionàrius
The 38th edition of the Tradicionàrius International Folk Festival will once again descend from the Vila de Gràcia to the centre of Barcelona to offer two new activities as part of the Santa Eulàlia Festivities.
At 8.15 pm, La Sonsoni will offer an enjoyable folk dance session with a traditional repertoire from the Pyrenean counties of Cerdanya and Alt Urgell to the beat of the diatonic accordion and violin.
At 9.30 pm, Germà Negre will unveil their new show called Puja aquí dalt i balla. It is an immersive experience in sound and language through local popular and traditional tunes, with a repertoire of songs from the oral and folk tradition. Through this new musical experience, the audience will visit soundscapes with Catalan roots fused with contemporary energy.