"What is your best memory related to music, and what memory would you like to forget?" This double question has been repeated in most of the interviews with musicians (and people linked to music) published in the ARA, especially in the last year and a half. The answers sometimes relate to professional experiences, but there are also those that involve very intimate and family memories. In this first compilation, we compile a selection of responses about the best memories. They include Roger Mas, Julieta, The Tyets, Maria Hein, Raquel García-Tomás, Pau Vallvé, Mazoni...

They followed the concert hypnotized and without realizing that their body was yielding to the songs of Dipotry, Pau Riba's double album which was honored at the Teatre Grec this Tuesday, with a sold-out crowd. First, there were the eyes, which, in concert, opened like a flower. Then, the small, uncontrolled nods of approval from the head, which moved to the shoulders and spread to the arms. The couple expelled energy through their hands and began to float through the air. First, she stood up, and half a second later, he did. It was at the end of the concert. They had been dancing on stage for a while, but the audience struggled to get going.

Oques Grasses, Rita Payés, Albert Guinovart, Roger Mas and the Cobla Sant Jordi are some of the names recognized at the sixth edition of the Alícia Awards, held this Thursday in room 2 of L'Auditori de Barcelona. The Catalan Academy of Music has recognized eleven artists and projects in a gala that vindicated Catalan talent and was hosted by cupletista Glòria Ribera. The event, which was also broadcast live on the 3Cat platform, featured the participation of personalities such as Joan Albert Amargós, Carme Canela, Judit Neddermann and Llum, among others.

The Friends of the Arts have chosen Casa Batlló to address the press. "It's a Catalan heritage site, but it's hard to see Catalan people. Sometimes we struggle to appreciate our heritage," says Ferran Piqué, one of the three members of the group, along with Dani Alegret and Joan Enric Barceló. 20 years of Friends (Pistatxo Records, 2025), an album in which they combine their own songbook with around twenty collaborations with bands and artists as diverse as Tomeu Penya, The Tyets, Lluís Gavaldà, Judit Neddermann and Roger Mas. The celebration also includes four special concerts: on June 25 at the Poble Espanyol in Barcelona (sold out), on August 30 at Sueca, on September 19 at the Trui Teatre in Palma and on October 10 at the Sala Prat del Roure in Escaldes Engordany (Andorra).

In December I suggested that if they wanted to explain this country to someone who wanted to understand it, they should invite them to hear Roger Mas with the Cobla Sant Jordi at the Palau de la Música in February. The concert was held yesterday, with a full house right up to the last row of the amphitheatre, and ended with a great party, with both the spectators and the artists enjoying it. But this article is not intended to criticise the performance, among other reasons because the excellent aftertaste that Mas and the copla left us with a couple of months ago in Porrera is still just as valid, but rather it wants to return to the idea of understanding a country through the work of an artist.