program 2016 - Barcelona.de

BLUES AND RELATED STYLES IN THE EUROPEAN MUSEUM OF
MODERN ART (M.E.A.M.)
c/. Barra de Ferro, 5. (next to the Picasso Museum). Barcelona
Entrance: 14 € (visit the museum and enjoy the concert. Reduced ticket for concerts are
for advance sale on the web MEAM).
Tickets: museum´s ticket office, web MEAM, offers on websites of Atrapalo, Dooplan,
Grupazo, Bcn.de...
Reduced ticket: Student card, pensioners, disabled, professors, groups (more than 5
persons)
Discounts with: Library card, Rainbow card, RACC, BCN Card, Bus Turístic, FNAC, La
Vanguardia, TR3SC (through its web), card friends of MEAM, www.bcnclub.net,
Free admission for children under 12 years old.
October- November- December 2016
Friday afternoons The European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) offers an
attractive program of blues and related styles concerts, in the incomparable
Palau Gomis, renaissance building of the 18th- century.
It is new way to enjoy Friday afternoons, the real pleasure to watch the best
modern figurative art, while listening an excellent blues and related styles
music, with a drink and in a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere.
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Friday 7 of October 18,00 h: Blues with:
IKER PIRIS & BLAS PICON
Iker Piris, guitar and voice. Blas Picón, harmonica and voice.
Iker Piris (Tolosa, 1979) visit Catalan lands to offer his talent as a guitarist,
singer and songwriter, formed on their records "My Time" (2012) and the recent
one "Do It Yourself" (2014). His repertoire includes suggestive versions of
classical blues and original compositions that demonstrate his versatility and
ingenuity in the field of creation.
On this occasion, Iker joins forces with singer and Catalan harmonica player
Blas Picón, for this exclusive concert, forming a proven chemical duo and
ensuring an original, dynamic and stimulating show.
Friday 14 of October 18,00 h: Swing & rhythm & blues with:
THE BIG 3
Augie Burr, voice. Big Dani Pérez, saxophone. Marc Ferrer, piano
The Big 3 hides nothing behind its name: it is a band formed by three of the
"heavyweights" of rhythm & blues made in our country. A voice, Augie Burr, one
of the most excellent and versatile active singers. Marc Ferrer, pianist of some
of the best bands of the genere, including "The Big Jamboree", an institution in
the Barcelona scene, next to the saxophone player Big Dani Perez, one of the
most celebrated and recognized "honkers" patriotic.
An unbeatable triad, reduced to its minimum expression, its purest essence, to
enjoy the most amazing and electrifying swing and rhythm & blues band that
you can imagine.
Friday 21 of October 18,00 h: From rural blues to urban blues with:
OSCAR LINARES TRIO.
Óscar Linares, voice, guitar. Miquel Grifell, guitar. Víctor Barceló, harmonica.
From one edge to another edge ... from the Mississippi River to Michigan Lake.
"Oscar Linares Trio" is the project of Oscar Linares accompanied by guitarist
and harmonica player Grifell Miquel Barceló Victor. The contribution and
expertise of both for Oscar Linares supposed to leave behind -for moments-the
Mississippi River and reach the shores of Michigan Lake. To change rural blues
into sophisticated and bright city blues. This shift makes an additive to the
repertoire and a personal form revisiting issues of bluesmen sort of Bluebird or
Chess among others. Themes of Tampa Red and Big Maceo Merriweather,
Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell, Big Bill Broonzy and Jazz Gillum, Robert
Nighthawk, Muddy Waters, Howlin 'Wolf, Elmore James, are in their repertoire.
Friday 28 of October 18,00 h: Roots ‘n’ Blues with:
ALEX GUITAR (Algeciras)
Alex “Guitar” García, resophonic guitar, harmonica
Alex "Guitar" Garcia formed the band Algeciras Blues Express in 1984 and
visited with it almost all Spain, playing in clubs and festivals of jazz and blues.
The band left recorded a couple of albums for the label Cambayá Records:
"Algeciras Blues Express" and "Guarantee of Origin", the last one unpublished.
After playing in several bands he decided to implement an idea that caressed
from years ago: playing solo. At the same time he was involved for three years
in an interesting cultural project consisting in spreading the blues through
concerts aimed at children in Andalusian schools. In December 2003, he
recorded his first solo album "Hooked on Blues", with the Seville harmonica
player and an old friend from the time of Algeciras Blues Express Manuel de
Arcos,.
Thanks to his knowledge of the resophonic guitar Alex was chosen to
participate in the recording of the compilation cd "Resophonica Players of
Europe 2005" which brings together specialists from across Europe. Alex
participates with the subject "Cipress Groove", belonging to his first solo album
"Hooked on Blues". The album was released in Europe in September 2005 and
in the US in 2006; He is the only Spanish musician contained in the project.
During the month of November:
V Friday’s Blues & Boogie-Woogie Piano Meeting
Friday 4 of November 18,00 h: V Friday’s Blues & Boogie-Woogie Piano
Meeting with:
CRISTIAN POYO MOYA & DANIEL FOLL
Cristian Poyo Moya, piano. Daniel Foll, piano, voice
Born in Rosario, Argentina, in musicians family, Poyo Cristian Moya began
studying piano as a child, has started classical piano career at the National
School of Music in Rosario and has finished the modern piano in L'Aula del
Liceu in Barcelona.
He has accompanied in several tours Andy Moss, one of the singers of the
legendary American band "The Platters" and several American bluesmen like
Patrick Hazell (Iowa) and Bob Margolin (guitarist of Muddy Waters) - In 2015 he
toured throughout Spain with Spanish-Argentinan band "Tota Blues band"
based in Barcelona in which he is a steady pianist.
He has taught piano blues and boogie-woogie, acting at the School of Blues in
Madrid with José Luis Pardo, recognizable Argentinan guitarist who lives in the
capital and the founder of the school.
Currently he performs concerts in Catalunya, Spain and the rest of Europe with
Tota Blues Band, Carlos Shelly's Rhythm & Blues Band, Exile New Tango and
The Rocking Stones (tribute to The Rolling Stones band).
New Orleans sound helped establish the foundations of blues and AfroAmerican music and its evolution during the first decades of the twentieth
century. Daniel's piano music brings us closer to this artistic expression born in
the mixed city of the southern United States, the birthplace of jazz and blues.
Influenced by pianists like Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, Pinetop Perkins,
Amos Milburn or Jay McShann and musical trends ranging from Chicago blues
to boogie-woogie or the swing of Louis Jordan, Daniel Foll offers a repertoire
with a stylistic personality marked by a sense of rhythm and festive
atmosphere.
Friday 11 of November 18,00 h: Friday’s Blues & Boogie-Woogie Piano Meeting
with:
DAVID GIORCELLI & ENMA FERNANDEZ
David Giorcelli, piano, voice. Enma Fernández, piano, voice
David Giorcelli is currently one of the leading exponents as far as Blues and
Boogie Woogie piano refers to our country both solo and with his band Wax &
Boogie. This allows him to participate in two of the most important Boogie
Woogie festivals in the world, Laroquebrou 2010 (France-Aurillac) considered
the Festival of Boogie piano, the biggest one, organized by Jean Paul
Amouroux, and the prestigious International Festival of Boogie Woogie 2011
Lugano (Switzerland), organized by Silvan Zingg. He also has the pleasure of
acting in big festivals such as Poland (Chuchlow) with the Boogie Boys, Les
Nuits de Jazz et Boogie Piano (Montparnasse-Paris) by Jean Pierre Bertrand,
or Boogie Piano Nights in the Caveau de la Huchette Paris, Barcelona,
Terrassa, Jazz Figueres, Sant Adrià are some of the common scenes, without
neglecting the great national festivals like Hondarribia Blues (editions 20082011), Cazorla (editions 2004 -2007-2011), Benicàssim, Cerdanyola, Marbella,
Sant Adrià, Roses. With Wax & Boogie in 2016 he represented Spain in the
sixth edition of the European Blues Challenge in Torrita di Siena.
With several albums released and more than twenty collaborations. Giorcelli
has one of the most powerful left hands gender, so his participation is a
guarantee of adrenaline at every concert.
Enma Fernández is a piano player, singer and conductor settled in Barcelona
with a very intense career on stage, where exactly shows what it is a pure show
and leaves no one indifferent.
Her first project "Lewis Enma & The BCN Fireballs" attributed to Jerry Lee
Lewis, was a hit live, where the staging and musical and gestural interpretation
of the classics of the 50s have led her to make more 100 concerts each year.
Following this success she has begun her most personal project where she was
been surrounded by the best musicians of the Barcelona scene and started to
form a solid formation.
Rhythm and blues, swing, jazz and traditional rock'n'roll there are some of the
influences she has had throughout her career.
Friday 18 of November 18,00 h: Friday’s Blues & Boogie-Woogie Piano Meeting
with:
DAVID SAM & JULIO LOBOS
David Sam, piano. Julio Lobos, piano, voice.
Self-taught and eclectic, David Sam quotes Jerry Lee Lewis, Stray Cat, Otis
Spann, Oscar Peterson or Chano Dominguez as some of his influences. From
Lluís Coloma and Julio Lobos received the imposed need to enter the
professional field. He considers that in our country there is currently an
incredible lack of musical culture, but not defeatist that in each town has almost
always found a corner where appears blues and a local with a piano. Will is
power and no one can ever take away from him the illusion of being able to
transmit and reflect his own life through this instrument (Eugenio Moirón. La
Taberna del Blues)
Julio Lobos is an experienced keyboard player, singer, composer, performer
and artistic producer. Since 1978 he has been a part or has been collaborated
with Carey Bell Blues Band, Manu Chao, Afrika Bambaataa, P.P. Arnold, Lluis
Lach, The Rebels, Sopa de Cabra, or Big Mama & The Blues Messengers,
among more than 200 formations and an extensive discography he has shared
the stage with groups or in jam sessions with Jimmy Page, Raimundo Amador,
Gary Grainger, Gregory K . Grainger, Bruce Dickinson, John McEnroe, Julian
Vaughn, Javier Mas, Raynald Colom, Carles Benavent, Fermin Muguruza and
Lluís Coloma among others, leading counted more than 4,400 concerts in 39
countries. He is the professor of Taller de Musics of Barcelona (Area Rock), has
developed a music education project for schools and has made JornadasClínics of African-American music in Altafulla aimed at keyboard players. In
2015 he recorded a solo album in a live concert from the MEAM`s main room.
Friday 25 of November 18,00 h: Friday’s Blues & Boogie-Woogie Piano Meeting
with:
ELENA LASCO & LLUIS COLOMA
Elena Lasco, piano. Lluis Coloma, piano
The great jazz pianist Elena Lasco -first jazz figure in Russia, the Nordic
countries and now also in Catalonia - is well known for her humorous and
contagious swing . In Soviet Union she came to have their own TV show and
became a celebrity. Virtual both classical piano and jazz, in 1989 received
praise from the American producer Quincy Jones, who considered her to be
one of most talented Russian jazz's interpreters. From 1990 to 1999 she lived
in Oslo, where she made numerous performances. Since 2000 she is living in
Spain, where she has been required to participate in various festivals of
classical music and jazz. She has traveled to London, the city where she
debuted in 2009 at the Conway Hall and the Pizza Express Jazz Club. In the
MEAM we will have the opportunity to discover a pianist who expresses herself
with impeccable swing and who also is one of the most representative names of
the prolific and unknown Russian jazz scene. In an orginal concert she will
share the stage with Lluis Coloma.
Una música fresca y directa que arranca ovaciones y crea una atmósfera
hipnótica capaz de transportar a la audiencia a los viajes apasionantes.
Sin duda una combinación explosiva de dos pianistas insuperables
Lluís Coloma creates in every concert a magical atmosphere from the start till
the end, making each performance a unique and unforgettable experience. With
his talent for improvisation Coloma gets a solid and convincing sound. Great
communicator, immediately spread his passion for this humorous music to an
audience. His great technique and virtuosity make him one of the best
examples of blues and boogie woogie piano player in Europe.
Luis offers a very personal music and a repertoire in which he perfectly
combines tradition and originality, fusing the New Orleans music, rhythm &
blues, boogie woogie ell rock, blues ...
An intense and full of energy show, where the surprising strength of his piano
surrounds and engages the audience that quickly catches rhythms, passion
and sense of the interpretation of Coloma, who lives each of his concerts as a
total act . A fresh and direct music that starts ovations and creates a hypnotic
atmosphere can transport the audience to the exciting trips.
Definitely an explosive combination of two unbeatable pianists.
Friday 2 of December: 18,00 h: Blues, country & swing with:
ROOM 69
Julio Vallejo, voice y guitar. Jaime del Blanco, violin. Daniel Nunes, contrabass.
Marc Thió, percussion
Room 69 is the name of a formation that gathered the best of blues, country
and swing. If we close our eyes we can identify the warm voice and guitar of
Julio Vallejo, alma mater of this group, the violin virtuoso Jaime White, the
showmanship and solidity of bassist Daniel Nunes and experience, swing and
joy drummer Marc Thió .
Among the dusty roads of a border place in America you will find a motel with a
room, ROOM 69. Come and enjoy the show.
Friday 9 of December 18,00 h: Classic vintage blues with:
HONKY TWO
Carlos Yañez, guitar, voice. Joan Ventosa, piano
De esta forma tamizan versiones de Ray Charles, Magic Slim, B.B. King, Otis
Rush, Freddie King, Duke Robillard o Junior Watson.
Guitarra y piano para construir veladas de auténticos “beer joint”, donde lo
importante es el sentimiento no la pirotecnia que se utilice, como si de una
primitiva “juke box” se tratara.
Duo formed by two veterans of the music scene, Joan Ventosa at the piano and
Carlos Yañez on guitar and vocals, for years dedicated to each other tasks and
finally decided to join forces to launch a long-term project.
Their proposal involves performing versions of classic blues of a very austere
and personal way, from acoustic blues of the Mississippi to the electric blues of
Chicago, without neglecting the West Coast and the sound of New Orleans.
With a sketch almost extracted from the "Barrelhouse" and "honky tonk" New
Orleans sound is sincere and intimate, full of feeling, very close and always
looking for feedback from the public. In this way perform versions of Ray
Charles, Magic Slim, B.B. King, Otis Rush, Freddie King, Duke Robillard or
Junior Watson.
Guitar and piano evenings to build a real "beer joint", where what matters is the
feeling.
Friday 16 of December; 18,00 h: Italian swing with:
RIVOLTA A BARCELONA.
Matteo Rivolta “Don Matteo”, voice. David Sam “Don Davide”, piano y voices.
Roberto Olori “Don Roberto”, drums and voices
Rivolta to Barcelona is a trio that makes a journey through the Italian music of
the 30/40 recalling great songs like "Volare", "Piccolissima serenade"
Buonasera ", etc ... always with a Swing that gets to sing and dance all the
public. An original and different concert that will surprise more than one.
Friday 23 of December 18,00 h: Swing, lindy-hop & jazz with:
THE LINDY HOPPERS DUO featuring ISMAEL DUEÑAS
Mireia Feliu, voice. David A. García, guitar. Ismael Dueñas, piano
The Lindy Hoppers is a group of swing formed in Badalona specialized in dance
music called style "lindy hop", a dance for couples and music with African roots
born in New York and popularized in the United States during the 30s. This time
will give a concert with Mireia Feliu, singer, and David A. Garcia on guitar,
accompanied by Ismael Dueñas, pianist and composer, formed in the jazz
world, who has recorded five albums under his own name and worked in
various creative projects of high artistic quality.
The repertoire they offer is extensive and varied. Swing not stop moving your
feet and transport us to the decade of the 30s and 40s, but also jazz standards
or even bossa blues to listen and enjoy. Thanks to Mireia´s warm voice and a
lot of years of work, listening to them becomes a big pleasure.
Friday 30 December 18,00 h: Blues & dixieland with:
CASI EL MEJOR TRIO DE TU VIDA
Mikha, violin, banjo y voice, Artem Hul`yev, saxophone, Maria Puertas, tuba
It is a new musical band that has stunned this ones who had the chance to
listen them on live. Very difficult to classify, his personality is based on the
cultural miscegenation that provide three musicians from different countries and
cultures, with three very different concepts of what the blues and AfricanAmerican music is and three different instruments. Intense, irreverent way,
mixing banjo, tuba and saxophone to deploy a repertoire of Dixieland and blues
what surely is a hurricane of entertainment.
(Coordinación y programación: Vicente y Roser Zúmel)
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