More feminism and more vindication, also passing through Portugal and Peru, but at the same time continuing the work of territorial articulation through culture. More songs, in short, is what Barnasants is proposing for the next edition, which was presented this Thursday. Pere Camps, director and alma mater of the festival, insisted on the vindication of the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal "when the reactionary and neo-fascist wave invades Europe, the result, among others, of little democratic memory". and that they will celebrate on April 13 with a collective show of their own production, El poble és qui mana, under the artistic direction of Névoa (Núria Piferrer) at the Teatre Joventut de l'Hospitalet, the same stage where this will be inaugurated 28th edition, in this case, with Les Kol·lontai, the group formed by the singer-songwriters Sílvia Comes, Meritxell Gené and Ivette Nadal, who return with a new proposal five years after being born at the proposal of the festival and which wants to be a "relentless, blunt feminist vindication".
In fact, Laura de Agorreta Camps, who takes over as deputy director, recalled that more than 40% of the planned events are led by women, a percentage that has grown over the years and that they hope will reach the half Thus, this year Clara Peya, Raquel Lúa, Escarteen Sisters, Kris Tena, Sandra Bautista, Liuba María Hevia, La Maria, Maio, Alidé Sans, Gemma Humet or Paula Valls will perform there, among many others. It also includes the celebration of Women's Day, 8-M, at the Casinet d'Hostafrancs with a concert by Paula Domínguez, accessible in sign language with the interpreters Eva García Codorniu and Anna Griera.
Among the nearly 120 scheduled performances, there will also be space for the celebration of other designated dates, such as the centenary of the death of Joan Salvat-Papasseit, with a show by the Valencian duo of Tomàs de los Santos and Elsa Tronchoni through songs and rhapsodies of the poet. Pere Camps explained that this own production has been made following an agreement with the Federation of Universities of Catalonia, so that it will go on tour in various spaces to achieve one of the objectives of Barnasants, "to articulate the territory from culture", because it wants to be a decentralized event, which is why there are several venues, such as the mentioned Youth Theatre, Barcelona's Harlem, La Cate de Figueres or the Ateneu Igualadí de la Classe Obrera, or the collaborations with Traditional ones that will be held at the CAT (Adolfo Osta, Carola Ortiz, VerdCel, Magalí Sare and Manel Fortià or Miquel Gil).
They will also celebrate musical anniversaries, such as the 20th anniversary of the career of Cesk Freixas (who recently announced that he will take an indefinite musical break in 2025), the 30th anniversary of Marc Parrot, the 40th anniversary of Gabriel Sopeña or the 50th anniversary of Rafa Xambó, who this 2024 will leave the stage with a show based on songs from poets such as Maria-Mercè Marçal, Vicent Andrés Estellés, Maria Josep Escrivà, Àngels Gregori or Teresa Pascual.
Other outstanding concerts are those of Rafa Pons, Alba Careta and Henrio – who recover nursery songs from the oral tradition within the Càntut project –, the historic Luar Na Lubre, Renaldo
This year the guest country will be Peru, and there will be concerts by Javier Lazo, Amaru Angoitia, Gaddafi Núñez, Myriam Quiñones, Luz Maria Carriquiry, Omar Camino, Juliette Robles, Gabriel Tito Iglesias and Chabuca Negra, many of them in collaboration with Casa America.
This edition of the festival will have a triple closing, with three consecutive concerts, on May 17, 18 and 19, by Gemma Humet and Toti Soler, Paco Ibáñez and Claudi Martí and Ismael Serrano.
Pere Camps wanted to insist that the festival has a multi-national vocation, because "diversity does not separate, but brings together", and "the normality is not only for Álvarez to sing here, but for singer-songwriters in Catalan to perform in places like Segovia or Valladolid" , and for this reason he directly asked the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, that "aid for festivals be linked to a percentage in the other languages of the Peninsula".
