The Porta Ferrada festival already has the first names for the next edition, the 62nd, with a representation of artists of national and international stature to accompany the summer of Sant Feliu de Guíxols. Names like Julieta Venegas, Toquinho or Tom Jones will perform at the Guíxols Arena alongside Hombres G, Amaral or Robe Iniesta. Tickets will go on sale this Thursday, December 21 at 12 noon and Club Vanguardia members have a 15% discount if they buy tickets through the Vanguardia Tickets website.
On July 26, Julieta Venegas will present the songs from Tu historia, the album with which she won the Latin Grammy for best pop vocal album. The author of Limón y sal returned to the studio in 2022, seven years after Something Happens, to confront her past in an album designed during the months of the pandemic. Another fruit of confinement is Se nos vamos el viento, Robe Iniesta's fourth solo album (August 10), where rock is mixed with violins to adorn the lyrics that characterize the Extremaduran musician who ended his relationship with Extremoduro in bad ways. after canceling his last tour as a result of covid.
The list of Spanish artists includes the Hombres G (August 14), who will bring to the Porta Ferrada the successful tour with which they celebrate 40 years on stage performing classics such as Marta has a pacemaker, Venezia or Suéltate el pelo with which They became the soundtrack for an entire generation of teenagers. From another generation, although equally identifiable, are the tunes that Amaral will perform (August 11) to celebrate in this case the artistic silver wedding of Eva Amaral and Juan Aguirre, authors of classics such as Estrella de mar, Moriría por vos or Todo la night on the street
Catalan music and in Catalan will be represented by Antonia Font (August 8), the Majorcan band that, after breaking a years-long silence with the album Un minut stroboscópica, have not stopped filling stages thanks to concerts full of energy and magic. The Ludwig Band, the sextet from Espolla that has managed to carve out a niche in the musical scene with its folk songs where traditionalism is seen with humor in songs like Contraban, El meu amor se ni ha de holidays o The oldest man in Espolla has died. The sextet from Emporda will perform on August 15 accompanied by Guillem Gisbert.
The list of confirmed performers is completed with the salsa singer Gilberto Santa Rosa (July 12), known as El Caballero de la Salsa, who makes his debut in Sant Feliu de Guíxols. Tom Jones also makes his debut (July 26), the Welsh tiger, who at 83 years old continues to dominate the stage with the unmistakable voice with which he reinterprets classics such as Sex Bomb, Delilah or It's not Unusual. Proof that seniority is a degree, as will also be demonstrated by the Brazilian Toquinho (July 28), father of bossa nova and partner of Vinícius de Moraes, who next summer will perform hits like Aquarela or Eu sei que vou te amar accompanied by the voice of Camilla Faustino.
