2023-08-16 17:00:16
If it’s August 15, it’s time for a major holidayand this is what he must have thought Porta Ferrada festival when he programmed for the mid-August a double concert with the mestizo music of Macaco and one of the most representative bands of the popular celebrations, La Pegatinain full commemoration of its twentieth anniversary.
In charge of opening fire on this night dedicated to festive music was Macaco, who left behind the collection of his latest album, blow my heart awayto mark-se nearly two hours of concert designed to keep the hooked audience dancing between the bombardment of slogans in favor of the defense of the planet, multiculturalism and taking life calmly.
Live it (your way), Moving, Fly o Love is the only way they moved the 1,300 spectators at the Guíxols Arena, converted into a dance floor for the occasionbefore Dani Carbonell invited everyone to “a real trip low cost for which you only need attitude, act with your heart and sing loudly” towards “the roots of the world” with Afro.
He changed the register to become solemn with Blue (tiny blue planet), inspired by the farthest photo ever taken of the Earth and which invites you to put everything into perspective, and more introspective with love me wellthe “backbone” of his new album, focused on relationships and love.
It was not a small truce, because he proposed to compensate for the intensity by dancingwith an improvisation that took the audience to Sicily, Have i with the hand raisein which this Barcelona native who defined himself as “Catalan and also from the world” took the opportunity to poke fun at the uproar surrounding the candidacy for the Catalan rumba to be declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco.
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«Controversy is real nonsense, we are full of dogmas and impositions and art does not understand this. The rumba is a music of roots and born here, it is mixed, of all and with a vocation to open borders», he affirmed criticizing the possibility that the last name «Catalan» leaves the official name of the candidacy as proposed by the Ministry of Culture.
with Coincide i I dance the pain to the encores, after a taste of flamenco by dancer Raquel Vicente, vto give way to the performance of La Pegatina, who promised “a party” while shooting confetti and streamers.
Those of Adrià Salas, who add up to more than a thousand concerts, are celebrating two decades this year by playing on stages all over the world. Before closing the celebration with three dates in the autumn, one at the Wizink Center in Madrid and the others at the Sant Jordi Club in Barcelona, they set out to light the Porta Ferrada with themes such as And fly, I want to dance, Miranda o Gat rumberu. A whole arsenal to jump and move to the rhythm of festive music that, indisputably, could serve as the soundtrack for every August 15th.
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