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Barcelona limits music festivals in Parc del Fòrum to 30 days a year
Only 15 festival nights will be allowed to run past 11 pm, while the other 15 will have to end by that time
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Barcelona Beach Festival 2023 canceled after not being granted license
Organizers claim Sant Adrià de Besós council does not grant permission to hold music festival
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La Mercè: Barcelona’s top festival adds Camp Nou and Park Güell as music stages
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Barcelona mayor casts doubt on summer festivals in post-coronavirus ‘transition phase’
Ada Colau says major events gathering thousands will be last to be approved to take place after crisis passes
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Primavera Sound is back with an impressive line-up and more than 190,000 fans expected in Barcelona
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Strong international line-up at Barcelona’s 2014 Primavera Sound Festival
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A free warm-up of the Primavera Sound Festival with 22 concerts in Barcelona bars
‘Primavera als Bars’ is a pre-festival date of the city with one of its main music events, the Primavera Sound. This free show will bring 22 international and local music bands to fifteen bars, restaurants and hotels around the city of Barcelona. These concerts kicked off on the 24th of April and will finalize on the 18th of May. All these concerts are free and offer the chance to get to know young local artists like Núria Graham or to international bands such as the Americans Purling Hiss.
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New music festival in Barcelona during the summer with Josep Carreras and Julio Iglesias topping the programme
The Festival ‘Jardins del Palau de Pedralbes’ will take place between the 20th of June and the 8th of July in the Catalan capital. Josep Carreras, Julio Iglesias, Antony and the Johnsons, Natalie Cole, Roger Hodgson, Earth Wind & Fire and Crosby, Stills & Nash are some of the artists that will play at the first event. The private company Concert Studio is behind the initiative, which has the support of Barcelona City Council and the Catalan Government. Public funds will only cover 2% of the festival’s budget. Concert Studio have already organised the Cap Roig festival and the Festival del Mil·leni. According to them, they wanted to fill “an empty space” in Barcelona’s musical season.