The Catalan town of Tiana, in the province of Barcelona, hosted the first edition of the CAN REON Festival last Saturday, May 27, with an audience that discovered "landscapes, sounds and flavors becoming a delicatessen evening", the event highlighted in a statement.
According to the same writing, music, dance and the visual arts "made a perfect symbiosis with an unbeatable natural environment" that paired with Dutch-Catalan cuisine and wines from the D.O. de Alella "created a new experience for all the senses".
Those in charge of welcoming the attendees were the robotic woodpeckers by the artist Marco Barotti and his installation The Woodpeckers, which were activated with the mobile phones of the visitors.
On Saturday afternoon it was also possible to enjoy performances in unique spaces, such as the dance of the Miquel Barcelona company or the performance of the soprano Glòria Lorente accompanied by the saxophonist Pere Norrès inside an empty swimming pool.
For her part, Genevieve Murphy, an English artist living in Amsterdam, accompanied by a great band of musicians, did not leave indifferent an audience that was able to discover this great artist to the rhythm of dance music, electronic pop songs and free improvisation.
Likewise, the video creations of Cristina Lucas, Marjan Laaper and Herwig Ilegems were also present at the event and occupied different spaces in the Tiana Casino farmhouse, showing surprising and captivating audiovisual pieces.
Carles Viarnès and Alba G. Corral were in charge of closing the festival by presenting their latest album Hyer_O with an enveloping concert with the hyperorgan as the leading instrument and with the visual creations of Alba G. that gave the final touch to a great day of this first Catalan festival edition.
CAN REON was opened in May 2022 by Renny and Leon Ramekers, an internationally recognized couple of Dutch origin within the design and music industry. Their experience has led them to create a site "that brings together their passion for the arts, design, wine, gastronomy and music in a new contemporary farmhouse experience." Renny, as co-founder and director of Droog Design, and Leon, as former director of music company Mojo, along with a team from Tiana, will ensure that the CAN REON program is "always full of exciting activities."
The CAN REON project is in constant evolution and in the next phases a rural accommodation and a gastronomic winery will be built by the prestigious architecture studio BIG. They have already begun to recover the abandoned vineyards and they have begun to produce their own wine, using modern methods and design thinking in winemaking.
CAN REON thus embarks on an exciting program of events and experiences to bring together wine, gastronomy, art and contemporary music in and around a vineyard.
