Sonar Festival: the kids go first

The SonarKids 2010 festival will take place in Barcelona on 12th and 13th June. The second festival comes after the success of the first, which was attended by 5,300 spectators, including parents and children, and contained more than 40 activities. SonarKids 2010 doubles up over two days of activities, workshops, shows and surprises for the whole family, in the CCCB and MACBA venues.

The music line-up of the SonarKids festival will include top drawer artists who will be adapting their styles or even creating new ones especially for an event as unusual as this one.

SonarKids features numerous creative activities and workshops. Some of them are specifically designed for parents and children to be able to enjoy the experience together, while in others the boys and girls at SonarKids will be doing it for themselves.

This all happens in a space that is especially adapted for family audiences, with all types of facilities for parents and a new infrastructure which will be adapted to the world of children in terms of size and sound. SonarKids continues to be a new concept in family leisure, conceived by Sónar so that both parents and children enjoy music, workshops, art and technology together, over two days that are ideal for learning while playing, and having a good time.

Dancing, learning and having a good time is what it's all about!

Source: Sonar official website.

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Sonar 2010: ghosts and music

A couple of ghosts making the way of Saint James to find the end of the world and get in the land of the living people... what they have to do with electronic music? The answer is easy: the Sonar Festival. The unconventional film Finisterrae, written and directed by Sergio Caballero, is the image of the popular festival this year.

Sonar advanced music and multimedia art festival takes place in Barcelona every year during three days in June. Sonar’s diverse artistic offer splits between the Sonar by Day activities (in the CCCB and MACBA venues) and Sonar by Night (Fira Gran Via M2 L’Hospitalet), together with some simultaneous gigs like the performances at L’Auditori.At the last festival edition, more than 75,000 people enjoyed the fine selection of an artistic programme which combines the electronica headliners together with hundreds of emerging artists and DJ’s representing the most updated music and new media trends within electronic culture.

This event is the meeting point both for a worldwide audience looking for the newest, as well as the professionals, with their SonarPro.

The 2010 edition takes place on 17, 18 and 19 of June. The star guest this year is Roxy Music, who are visting the city after 30 years, with their only concert in Spain.

You can also enjoy the acting of New Young Pony Club, Aufgang, Post War Years, Caspa Fear, MC Rod Azlan and Cabo San Roque.

You just cannot miss it. Click here if you want more information about tickets.

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Music & fun for children: Sonar Kids 2009

Barcelona´s International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art (The Festival Sónar de Música Avanzada y Arte Multimedia de Barcelona) is already a theiving institution. But the17th annual addition (18-20 June) will have a new twist. On the 21st the first ever Sonar Kids will be celebrated on.

According to the official web of Sonar Kids “Children will learn by enjoying music and art in a way they have never done up til now”, their creativities will be stimulated. Children will be able to interact in new forms of instrumentation and composition using robotics and technology.
Well-known kids illustrator Jordi Labanda will make portaits of children and teach illustrating techniques. Some of the festival´s singers themselves will tweek their music for the new audience. Laurent Garnier, the well-known DJ and techno-music producer, was present at the first Sonar and wanted to be in the first Kids Sonar.
A striking idea comes from France in the form of the hiphop puppets of Puppetmastaz which already have extensive experience with the young public. Another zone will be dedicated to skate and especially to fingerskate a very particular mini-variation of this sport which consists of learning to skate using your fingers. There will also be workshops in beatboxing, dj, and hip-hop.
All in all, it should be a very original and enjoyable experience.