Barcelona

Every year the city’s green areas are filled with music during the traditional “Music in the Parks” festival. This year’s season started with a concert by Eva Fernández, in Parc de la Barceloneta on 31 May at 9 pm.

Fernández will be presenting her new album, Yo pregunto, a selection of poems by Pizarnik, Storni, Costafreda and Cortázar set to music and composed by the singer-saxophonist and guitarist Josep Munar. The line up is completed by Enric Fuster on drums. Fernández and Munar have spent a year writing and shaping seven of the songs on the album, combining their individual influences and various languages under the general ideological premise that less is more.

Following the acclaim received by That Darkness, the young jazz talent is now taking another step forward in her career, pursuing a natural desire to compose the music for her own songs, shoulder to shoulder with Josep Munar.

“Music in the Parks” started over twenty years ago with the aim of offering high-quality music for all kinds of audiences and encouraging the presence of young musicians. At the same time, the initiative aims to build on the potential of parks as recreational and community areas for summer evenings.

This series of free summer concerts in the city’s parks and gardens, organised by Barcelona City Council, includes various styles of music, including classical music and jazz.

The season starts with the inaugural concert and features others every week until the end of August, when the closing concert takes place. Some of the parks also offer guided visits before the concerts.