Fito Páez, Simple Minds, Sebastián Yatra and The Tyets: the Cap Roig Festival line-up is announced
There will be 24 concerts from July 12 to August 18, one third of which will be in Catalan.
BarcelonaArgentine Fito Páez will inaugurate the 25th Cap Roig Festival The festival will be held on July 12th and Joan Dausà will close the event with two consecutive concerts on August 17th and 18th. In between, five weeks of summer with performances by such popular names as Simple Minds, Silvia Pérez Cruz & Salvador Sobral, Sebastián Yatra and Ana Belén. Nine of the artists on the bill will make their debut at Cap Roig, there will be eight bands singing in Catalan and seven women on the bill. 51,000 tickets will be on sale at an average price of 66 euros. The festival budget is 3.7 million euros. The unique thing about this year is that, to celebrate the first quarter of a century, the festival organised by CaixaBank and the Clipper's Group has announced that all the concerts will be charity concerts, with part of the proceeds going to social organisations in Girona and Baix Empordà.
This year, Catalan bands will occupy more than a third of the scheduled dates. The Sopa de Cabra (who will present) will take to the stage of the Cap Roig Gardens Soul), The Tyets with their new album, Nil Moliner, Els Catarres, the revelation group of 2024 Figa Flawas, the return of Lax'n'Busto with the original line-up, Antonio Orozco, as well as Pérez Cruz and Sobral (who will premiere their show together) and Joan Dausà. There are a total of ten concerts with Catalan DO, to which we must add the one dedicated to the children's audience with El Pot Petit.
Among the international bands there are classics such as UB40, Tom Jones, Simple Minds, Franz Ferdinand, trendy rhythms such as those of the Colombian Sebatián Yatra, singer-songwriters such as James Blunt and Natalia Lafourcade, as well as Fito Páez, who will review his entire suit. The state artists will be Amaral with his new album, Dolce Vita, the violinist of Lebanese origin Ara Malikian, Rosario, the Sevillian rumberos Siempre Así and Ana Belén.
Antonio Orozco, who performed at the presentation that took place this Friday at the CaixaBank headquarters in Barcelona, joked: "It's the first time that I'm happy when the bank calls me." "The year that you're in Cap Roig means that you're doing well, if you're not, it means that you don't exist. When they give you the first opportunity to perform, it's because you get older," he explained, after playing a single from the new album that "I've never played alone with a guitar and at this time" [in the morning].
The restaurant space is renovated and will be offered by 21deMarzo. The brothers Sergio and Javier Torres (who have three Michelin stars in Barcelona) will once again take care of the festival restaurant and a special aperitif with a view.
