Yet another year, the OBC is celebrating Music Day on the beach

Music Day is 21 June, and concerts and performances are being held around Barcelona to celebrate it. One of the most important ones, now a classic, is being offered by the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Catalonia (OBC). Yet another year, this orchestra will install a huge stage on the beach to offer a concert open to everyone with the goal of eliminating all of people’s complexes and prejudices surrounding classical music. Without a doubt, it is one of the most popular celebrations on Music Day, and the audiences are growing with each edition. This year the OBC has prepared a programme filled with great music by celebrated composers. For example, you can hear Georges Bizet’s Carmen, Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol, Camille Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre and Johannes Brahms’ Hungarian Dance. You can see the full line-up on the L’Auditori website.

As always, the concert will be on Sant Sebastià beach in the Barceloneta neighbourhood on 21 June at 9 pm. The concert is open and free of charge for everyone.

If you prefer music that isn’t classical, you can head to Fabra i Coats, where free concerts will start at 7 pm. The artists performing there include the Galician singer-songwriter Aries, with her electronic pop; the unclassifiable Myôboku, led by Òscar Garrobé and Marina Herlop; and Ran Ran Ran, with their unique sounds somewhere between Americana, folk and electronic.