It was a close call that a wild boar didn't turn a concert review into an epitaph. "Remember this name: L'Arannà". This was the title of ARA about the concert that the Ibizan-Empordà duo had performed at the Fira Mediterrània de Manresa on October 11, 2025. "The day after the concert, we were driving on the A2 and suddenly a wild boar appeared from the right. I swerved a few times, the car started to sway and hit a concrete barrier. We miraculously didn't overturn," recalls Anna Sala (Sant Feliu de Guíxols, 1996). "The car was destroyed, but we were unharmed. And the instruments too. If we had died, that article would have been an epitaph," adds Lara Magrinyà (Ibiza, 1993). Both had just presented the show Turmarí, which next autumn will become a record, and which in recent months has already made L'Arannà one of the most exciting musical projects in the country thanks to the way they delve into the tradition of Ibizan double singing with contemporary tools and mentality. They will demonstrate this once again this Friday, June 26, at the Auditori de l'Ateneu de Banyoles (8 p.m.), as part of the (a)phònica festival programming.

The issue isn't being optimistic or pessimistic, but working. An optimist who does nothing to get ahead is just as useless as someone who, overcome by defeatism, throws in the towel. The sociolinguist Isidor Marí spoke about this in relation to the situation of the language in Ibiza, but it applies to almost everything. Doing work, like the work done by Cantuto, the fsummer festival of traditional oral songs from Cassà de la SelvaSince 2016, Marí participated from the audience in a talk about Ibizan double-repeated singing, a magnetic rhythmic chant that the duo L'Arannà incorporates into one of the most interesting artistic proposals of the moment: oral tradition and electronic music combined to move the listener. It was one of the activities of the ninth edition of Càntut, which took place from November 14th to 16th. Càntut, the best festival in the country.

The 28th edition of the Manresa Mediterranean Fair, which concludes this Sunday after three days of preliminary performances, was a successful and stimulating experience. Large audiences attended most of the shows, especially along the axis between Plaça Neus Català and Plaça Sant Domènec, with active audience participation in dance-based performances such as La Coixinera. The artistic level was very high. This was expected in the cases of established artists such as Sol Picó and Juan Carlos Lérida, La Venidera, and Cocanha. It was also surprising in emerging artists such as L'Arannà and Alosa, and in the presentation of projects recently launched by Obrador de Raíz, such as Unmarried by Magalí Sare and Bread by Anna Ferrer.