Joan Baez
Buy ticketsThe big lady of soul and protest song icon
After her big success in the 16 Banc Sabadell Festival Mil·leni with two unforgettable concerts in the Palau de la Música, Joan Baez is coming back to Pedralbes to perform her immortal songbook. She will surely sing her emblematic songs in Spanish, in a repertoire that changes in every tour in order to let her fans to listen to their favourite tunes.
During this tour she has re-released “Diamonds And Rust In The Building” (1989), a live album recorded in the Bilbao bullring. The A side features covers of Bob Marley, Leonard Cohen and The Beatles, and the B side remembers Miguel Hernández, Mikel Laboa, Violeta Parra and “No nos moverán”, a good example of her current concerts repertoire.
On January 27th she celebrated her 75th anniversary and a 55 year career with a concert in New York accompanied by Jackson Browne, Judy Collins, David Crosby, Emmylou Harris, Paul Simon, Mavis Staples, Richard Thompson, Indigo Girls and Damien Rice.
Deeply touched by the Paris terrorist attacks and violence in the Middle East, she quotes the Koran, “Anybody assassinating an innocent person is assassinating all humankind”, Jesus , “the one who uses the sword will kill for it” and Gandhi, “an eye for an eye and the whole world will go blind”.
Recommended Discography:
“Farewell, Angelina” (1965)
“Any Day Now” (1968)
“Diamonds And Rust In The Bullring” (1989)
MARIA ARNAL I MARCEL BAGÉS (Village Stage – 20.30h)
They have only released a couple of EPs, but everybody is already talking about them. The Badalona singer Maria Arnal and the Flix guitar player Marcel Bagés are stepping strongly in the music scene. Their original proposal takes work songs, nanas, fandangos, jotas and Iberian oral tradition musics to another dimension, extracted from Alan Lomax´s archive and from music libraries, adapting them to their style with naturalness and respect.
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