Pocallum — Blues

Festival de Blues de Barcelona

Wed, 09 Jan 2030 00:00:00 +0000

The Blues de Barcelona is a different species. The loyalty of its audience, the calibre of musicians who pass through, the care taken with every edition — nothing here is superficial or accidental.

Photographing blues is photographing scars. Every musician carries a story you can see in their hands, their posture, the way they lean into the microphone as if they have something important to tell it.

Not everyone understands the blues at first glance. But everyone understands a photograph that genuinely captures it.

Sax-o-Rama

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Sax-o-Rama is the international saxophone festival created by Dani Nel·lo — a reference point in its field that brings saxophonists from across the world to La Paloma year after year.

La Paloma has its own character, and Sax-o-Rama makes the most of it: concerts mixing musicians from Japan, the Caribbean and across Spain alongside the Barcelona Big Blues Band as the connecting thread. Every edition is different, but the saxophone is always at the centre.

Clot amb Blues

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Among the finest festivals there are. All soul and small format. Proximity with the performers, with the organisation, and everything made with great care and love.

El Clot is a neighbourhood that has made blues its own. Clot amb Blues brings the music to the neighbourhood’s own spaces — squares, venues, local facilities — with the intention of making music something that belongs to residents, not just to audiences.

Small in scale, large in content. Live concerts, street processions, proposals that go beyond the standard concert. The festival understands that neighbourhood music is, by definition, the kind that takes root deepest.

Calella Harmònica Festival

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The harmonica looks like a small instrument. In Calella, it becomes enormous.

The Calella Harmònica Festival is an annual festival dedicated to the harmonica as a cross-genre instrument: blues, jazz, bluegrass, folk. Small, but indispensable. A wonderful place where people love music with every breath.

Live concerts, masterclasses for all levels, photography exhibitions and a closing paella that proves well-made festivals end with people at the centre, not backstage.

We arrived as guests — not to photograph, but to exhibit. That changes everything about your relationship with a place.

Pícnic de Blues

Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Every May, Capibola Blues brings blues music to Parc Central de Nou Barris as part of the district’s neighbourhood festivities. A blanket on the grass, a cool box, live music and spring sunshine — or rain, which has also happened. Since 2013, we have been there.

The Pícnic de Blues is a free, neighbourhood event with no pretensions, which for some reason always works. Perhaps because blues in a park, with people lying on the grass and kids running through the crowd, is exactly the right setting for this music.

Nou Barris meets New Orleans

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Every spring, the Ateneu Popular 9 Barris builds an imaginary bridge between Nou Barris and New Orleans. Not a tourist postcard — a recognition that both cities share something fundamental: music as a tool for social cohesion in neighbourhoods that need it.

The formula is simple and effective: a second line through the district streets, a brass band that brings people out onto their balconies, DJ sets with a soundsystem, Creole food, and a closing concert. All in one day, for everyone.

9b in Black

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

9b in Black was Nou Barris’ black music festival. Three editions that brought blues, soul, funk, hip-hop and breakdance together in one space — a celebration of a musical culture with no single origin and no single colour.

The first edition, in February 2011, coincided with the centenary of Robert Johnson’s birth — one of the most legendary blues guitarists in history. It was no minor coincidence: 9b in Black wanted black music to feel not like a foreign genre but like a shared root.