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The famous rock band Crowded House will give a concert in Barcelona's Nightclub Razzmatazz. This Australian / New Zealand band became at the latest very famous thanks to its number 1 hit "Recurring Dream". After a break-up in 1996, the group reunited with a new drummer in 2006.

 

 

During 3 days in June, the city of Barcelona will be full of Harley Davidson motorbikes. The reason is the Barcelona Harley Days where thousands of Riders from all Europe will gather in the city. In 2008, more than 300 000 visitors attended this event.

On three different places concerts, shows and guided routes are organised during these days. These places are "Av. Reina M. Cristina", "Plaça de l’Univers" and "Port of Barcelona".

 

 

The SonarKids is a festival for kids where concerts, workshops, body art, skateboarding, fingerskating, graffiti and dance are organised for children. This festival, which took places for the first time in 2009, is a very good opportunity to share a nice moment in family. The aim of this festival is to open up tiny minds with a winning formula of music, technology and education.

There are for example the Finnish multi-instrumentalist Jimi Tenor and the Majorcan Joan Miquel Olivier making music. Electrotoylets is a Catalan group which will play a mixture of electro music and traditional Catalan music on toy instruments.

 

World environment day is held by United Nations every year on the 5th of June. Its purpose is to stimulate awareness that world is changing in bad way. There will be held some lectures about how we can change the world to be better place for us all. The message is simple "many small changes make the big difference".

If you are interested in this day, you can look a French movie "HOME", which was made for WED.

 

The 2nd of june, Alicia Keys will be in Barcelona for a concert in Palau Sant Jordi. The famous artist has chosen the catalan capital for her only show (excluding Canary Islands) in Spain.

Buy tickets here :

http://www.worldticketshop.com/concerts/alicia_keys_tickets/72710_alicia_keys_barcelona

Adress :

Palau Sant Jordi
Passeig Olimpic 5-7
28038, Barcelona, Spain,
 

Berlin's hottest Techno Dj is playing for one night only in Nitsa on the 9th April. Known for mixing some of the best techno and electro, drop by on Friday night for a taste of Berlin's huge nightlife. Dj Fra is supporting her so you can be sure it will be a good night.

Nitsa
c/ Nou de la Rambla 113
08003
Barcelona

Have a listen to Ellen Allien.

 

 

Hot Chip are playing for one night only in Nitsa in Para-lel. The British DJ's have a new album out and after the success of their last one you can guarentee this will be a great gig.

Nitsa
c/ Nou de la Rambla 113
08003
Barcelona

Listen to Hot Chip

 

KISS, one of the most influential band of the world is going to be in concert in Barcelona the 24th of June. With more than 35 years of career and 80 millions records sold, the famous group is currently in Europe for numerous concerts in some of the biggest city of Europe.

24/06/2010 at 19:30

 

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Address :

Palau Sant Jordi
Passeig Olimpic 5-7
28038, Barcelona, Spain

 

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Sonar 2010 is a huge three days and nights music festival arranged now 17th time in Barcelona. Its described as introducing advanced music and multimedia art performing. There are a lot of different artists, mainly unknown to the big public. Annually there are about 80 000 visitors.

During day time its held in MACBA and CCCB just right near famous street Las Ramblas. When night arrives to Barcelona Sonar Festival changes its location outside of the city. There will be coaches arranged for transportation the public.

 

Every year during summer, the grec festival takes place in Barcelona. For this occasion, more than 45 events such as music, dance, theatre and circus performances can be seen in different places of Barcelona. The Grec Theatre, which is a Greek-style amphitheatre on the flank of Montjuïc hill is the main venue for this festival and it is really amazing.

13/06/2010 to 01/08/2010

Palau de la Virreina
Rambla, 99
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"las Personas y las cosas"  (people and things) is a photographic exhibition with a video projection included in the Loop festival, in which venezualan artist Ángela Bonadies gives new meaning to multiple disconected archives of her country.

The exhibition is a collection of 80 photographs about places that collect and classify things and the people that work there, examples of a collective memory stored in boxes.

 

The 28th Comic festival Barcelona takes place in May. with comic displays from global artists in many different Genres. A must visit for comic fans everywhere

Fira de Barcelona
Montjuic
6th-9th May 2010
Entrance:6€

Official website

 

Melody Gardot has a new album out My One and Only Thrill. She is playing on the 14th April in the Palau de la Música. She is an American jazz singer who blends jazz with blues and Latin rhythms.

The concert is on the 14th April at 9pm.

Palau de la Música
C/ Palau de la Música 6-5
08001
Barcelona

Listen to Melody Gardot

 

 

Maceo Parker is playing in the Palau de la Música Catalana on 8th April 2010. He is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist who is most well known for his work with James Brown in the sixties. He has been touring since the nineties and makesa a stop in Barcelona for one night only.

Palau de Música
c/Palau de la Música
08003
Barcelona

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Nit de Sant Joan is a festival in Barcelona and Spain which is a celebration of midsummer solstice and therefore it takes place during the midsummer's eve on 23rd June. There are bonfires, fireworks, concerts and dances organised. Old furniture is burend in bonfires this is a rite of bringing everyone together round the fire. Especially the open-air celebrations are very enjoyable which last from sunset on 23rd June to sunrise on 24th June.

 

Every year, in June, Sitges celebrates the Corpus Christi in his own way. People are plucking the petals off Carnation flowers and place them on the patterns on the road. For at least 24 hours major streets are closed. During the day people gather in the main plaza before an altar and a mass of carnation petals is there released.
This is a very nice transformation of the town and therefore it worse to see it.

 

Corpus Christi is celebrated in Barcelona with 16th-century tradition L'ou com Balla (dancing egg). Egghells are perched above the water jets of the fountains in the city so that it looks like dancing eggs in mid-air.

The fountains are decorated beautifully for the occasion, with fragrant flowers in red in pink. You should also have a look for the parades of giants and big-headed carnival figures (cabezudos) that converge around the cathedral.

 

 

James Roper is an English artist who mimics the complex bodily structures found within nature by constructing abstract bodies formed from multiple elements. His work has been shown in London, Milan, Los Angeles and New York and has been published in Dazed and confused magazine and Art Review. He has an exhibition at Rojo@artspace during may and June, well worth checking out.

 

Antonio Pitingo is a singer and song writes who fuses many different genres of music together. He mixes flamenco with pop and soul. He is known to do covers aswell, his 2008 album featured a version of "Killing Me Softly". He is performing as part of the De Cajón! Flamenco Festival.

Palau de la Música
C/ Palau de la Música 6-5
08001
Barcelona

Listen to Pitingo

 

Mi Refugio is running from the 1st April to 8th April 2010 in The Zero Art. It complies a selection of fashion photographs from a group of young artists called "Falfeli" along with some disigns and music from Borrissol who is a member of the Catalan group Mine!.

It opens at 8.30pm on the 1st April

The Zero Art
Carrer del Regomir
08002
Barcelona

Visit Falfeli's work

 

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