"This is popular song made now", says Maria del Mar Bonet before performing S'aigo no, one of the songs from the magnificent album L'aigua no cansa that she has just released. When she sings the verse "Make all Valencians be able to return to their homes", the audience at the Palau de la Música applauds the gesture that recalls the victims of the 2024 flood. And the applause is louder when she says "May the responsible politicians who never served any purpose and have made the disaster worse be removed soon". Indeed, popular song made now by a captivating Maria del Mar Bonet, in a state of creative and interpretive grace.

Like water that springs forth, Maria del Mar Bonet, does not stop. After six decades dedicated to music, poetry, and stages, she returns with the album L'aigua no cansa (Blau/Discmedi, 2026), new songs in homage to the Mediterranean, popular tradition, and poetry. The album will be presented on May 23rd at the Palau de la Música as part of the Guitar BCN program, the starting point of a tour that will include a stop at the Olympia in Paris on October 11th.The album's title is no accident. "The Majorcan poet Pare Rafael Ginard used to say that popular music was like water that never tires," Bonet explains at Espai Mallorca in Barcelona. An image he has made his own and which underpins everything, with the help of Toni Pastor as producer. For the singer, "all the songs have meaning" and were made possible thanks to the lute, castanets, and dobro played by seven Majorcan musicians.

A serene emotion, great performances, and the desire to stand firm against cultural destruction and wars characterized the tribute he received. Joan Ramon Bonet Saturday at the Teatro Principal in Inca. "It was very exciting and I had a great time," Bonet said at a brief press conference after the event, seated between Maria del Mar Bonet, his younger sister, and Joan Manuel Serrat, a friend since the days of Setze Jutges.

More than 100,000 tickets are on sale. This is the projected capacity for the 2026 edition of Guitar Bcn, the festival organized by the promoter The Project and directed by Judit Llimós. With 85% of the lineup finalized, there will be 47 concerts in 14 venues of varying sizes, from the Palau Sant Jordi to La [2] at the Apolo. "With artists like Valeria Castro, who is making her debut at the Palau Sant Jordi, and other emerging acts like Roserona and Depol," explains Llimós.

Another impressive concert by Maria del Mar Bonet? Yes, another impressive concert by Maria del Mar Bonet. This time, at the Oriol Martorell Hall of L'Auditori de Barcelona to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the performance at the Olympia in Paris, which was immortalized in an album that has just been reissued. But just enough nostalgia because, as she sings in To alenarThe Mallorcan singer's entire journey "will be to move forward," and she maintains her voice, her intention, and her enthusiasm for moving forward. It's hard to find an artist like Maria del Mar Bonet in the world, so majestic and attentive to the popular and poetic legacy, and so influential on young musicians. This is corroborated by Maria Hein, 21, for whom Bonet is an inspiration, "not only as a singer and songwriter".

"It was a fantastic spring in Paris," recalls Maria del Mar Bonet about April 27, 1975. On her 28th birthday, the Mallorcan singer performed at the Olympia. "It's a somewhat cumbersome theater, not as welcoming as the Palau de la Música, but you still feel the weight of history, of all the musicians who have passed through," she explains at a luncheon with the press at the Moka restaurant on Barcelona's Rambla. On the table is a vinyl copy of the brand-new, in both form and substance, reissue of the album. At the Olympia recorded on April 27th fifty years ago. There is also a copy of the vinyl that Ariola released in 1975. They look similar, but they are not the same because María del Mar Bonet wanted to make "a new vision of the album."

This edition of Primavera Sound, starting this Thursday at the Parc del Fòrum and lasting until June 12, is meant to be a celebration of the return of pre-pandemic conditions, especially for the concerts held this weekend and on the 9th, 10th and 11th. Euphoria is the feeling the music industry is chasing and Primavera Sound is in a position to facilitate it: over 650 concerts spread over the 16 stages of the Fòrum and the 14 venues and halls across the city. Everything is set to break records because capacity is growing (up to 80,000 people a day) and because the new distribution of the two main stages, next to each other as in Santa Coloma de Gramenet's Rock Fest, instead of facing each other, increases capacity.