“Thank you, I have been very happy. I believe that everything begins and everything must end, and I better be the one who chooses when it ends,” he said Joan Manuel Serrat in Sant Feliu de Guíxols. The Porta Ferrada festival hosted on Saturday what, if there is nothing new, will be the singer-songwriter’s last concert on the Girona stage.
As part of his last tour, Serrat offered “a party, a farewell, but a party” in which he reviewed the sentimental soundtrack of half the country.
Asking the audience to park the nostalgia because “from now on there’s only the future” he started with Time was time, The Guardian Angel and The Carousel of the Furowhich was the nickname of his grandfather and whom he turned into a bully in this song.
“The songs are not true or false, they are fantasies mixed with a drop of reality,” he said, claiming that “we would all be poorer” without fiction and envying the luck of the characters, “who never grow old.”
He went on to reveal topics such as Romance of Curro el Palmo, Señora or I go on foot, premiered in 1967 in Sant Feliu, precisely.
They also played in a night to remember chance is capriciousperformed with Úrsula Amargós, Matinee song, The lullabies of the onion or For freedomd, while images of Barcelona, sea waves or olive fields were projected on a giant screen behind the stage.
Great Serratian classics like I do nothing but think of you, Mediterraneo or Cantares they were also part of the repertoire, but the Poble Sec songbook is so long that they were left out of the concert Penelope, Lucia o Now that i am twenty years oldwhich were demanded by the audience.
“I already listen to them and I would be singing them all night, but one has its limitations”, he joked about the requests before saying goodbye to a land, the Empordà, which has been “a great nutrient” for the his career, according to him.
love words it was the last song heard in Sant Feliu. “Thank you, it was a pleasure to have met you,” assured the musician.
And 99.9% of the people who filled the old Vilartagues football field could have said the same. Thank you and see you forever, Serrat.