A lot is going on in Valencia and suburbs — I wish I had more time to go around!
- 5 July: Barana Teatre @ Parc de l’hort del Comte d’Albalat, Albalat dels Sorells, Valencia
- A local mime trio presenting Mut! (“Mute!”). My favourite sketches featured rude flight assistants distributing newspapers and a chainsaw guy unsuccessfully trying to scare (also local) children running around the lawn.
- 6 July: Sés, Tesa, Amparanoia, Miss Bolivia & Tremenda Jauría @ Jardines de Viveros
- I went to this concert mainly to see Amparanoia. It turned out to be a seven-plus-hours-long celebration of feminist bands which I thoroughly enjoyed, although I wish it were less dominated by rap. Galician folk/rock/blues singer Sés (María Xosé Silvar) was a real discovery.
- 7 July: Abbas Cantadas @ Espai Cultural, Albalat dels Sorells
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Originally planned to be staged in the patio of the Castle of Albalat, it was moved to Espai Cultural because of the torrential rain. And a good thing too, for I was able to see the most of it after the movie (something I wouldn’t be able to do if the show started as scheduled). The Valencian a cappella group Octàmbuli presented the songs of ABBA as I (and probably you) never heard before. Featuring María Tamarit (soprano), Araceli Batalla (soprano), Sara Lliso (contralto), Aida Correia (contralto), Sergi Bosch (tenor), Javi Piquer (tenor), Miguel Ángel Ariza (baritone) and Agus Casanova (bass).
- 19 July: Borriana Big Band @ Parc de l’hort del Comte d’Albalat
- A big band led by saxophonist Juanjo Carratalà featuring young Cuban singer Dayana Emma (singing effortlessly in Valencian).
A group of elderly ladies behind me provided additional entertainment in form of non-stop chatter and comments such as “¡Muy bien!”, “¡Otra valenciana!”, “¡por Dios!” and so on. I took it that they approved of the music.
- 27 July: Carolina Araoz @ Nazaret, Valencia
- The XXIII Festival de Jazz de València, of which I saw surprisingly little this year, for the first time arrived to the neighbourhood of Nazaret (Natzaret in Valencian). According to Wikipedia, the name of this barrio has nothing to do with the Palestinian city of Nazareth but is a corruption of a Valencian word llatzeret (lazaret), i.e. hospital for contagious patients. Such hospital indeed existed here since 1720, although by now no physical trace of it has left. In any case, this concert was an historical event. The Peruvian musician Carolina Araoz (saxophones and vocals) was accompanied by Ivan Cebrian (guitar), Aliya Cycon (backing vocals, oud), Patrick Duke Graney (percussion), Sergio Martínez (percussion), Eve Matin (backing vocals, harp), Ricardo Osorno (double bass) and Albert Sanz (keyboards).
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