
KELER GUNEA, DIVERSITY AND QUALITY ON THE ZURRIOLA BEACH
8 free concerts: Village People + Fred Wesley & the New JBs + Tiken Jah Fakoly + Viva Suecia + Arde Bogotá + Ezra Collective + Blue Lab Beats + ZETAK
→Diversity is the overriding note of the Keler Gunea programme for San Sebastian’s 58th Jazz Festival. Diversity of styles where you’ll be treated to funk, disco, reggae, Jazz, indie pop-rock and electronic music. Diversity of artist origins: European, African and American. And diversity of generations too, featuring emerging groups and artists like the Ezra Collective, Blue Lab Beats, ZETAK and Arde Bogotá; others more long standing like Tiken Jah Fakoly and Viva Suecia; and veteran legends like Fred Wesley and Village People.
KELER, our main sponsor, gives its name to this stage, the KELER GUNEA, which, like in previous years, can be found on the beach, next to the Zurriola breakwater.
This stage will host two free concerts every day from 21-24 July.
Fun and dance are guaranteed with Village People, one of the biggest groups in the history of pop music. Their songs with their catchy choruses are known by millions of people, and have been sung and danced by several generations all over the world.
The great North American trombone player is, without a doubt, one of the best composers and arrangers in the history of funk and Afro-American sounds.
His music is one of the most sampled of all times and, in his long career, Wesley has worked with big-name musicians including James Brown, as his music director, George Clinton, Ike and Tina Turner, Ray Charles, Maceo Parker, Count Basie, Van Morrison, Earth Wind & Fire, Pee Wee Ellis, Vanessa Williams, The S.O.S. Band, Cameo, De La Soul, Curtis Mayfield, Usher...
Possibly the band that best reflects the prevailing creative, fresh and innovative spirit of London’s ebullient Jazz scene. Taking their inspiration from the major works in the history of Jazz and from the pioneers of hip-hop’s golden age, NK OK and MR DM turn out elegant, urban and extremely cool music of unquestionable quality.
This group hailing from Murcia brings melodic forcefulness, profound lyrics and epic guitars. But it’s in their live performances that Viva Suecia unfolds their many virtues and where their songs reach their highest expression. Guided by Rafa Val on vocals, the group will roll out its arsenal of hits, anthems chanted by their fans who are certain to pack the Zurriola beach.
The Spanish-language rock produced by these youngsters from Murcia has enthralled thousands of fans with its powerful and distinct sound. Lyrics packed with content that conveys anger and irreverence, yet also talking about seduction, love and the chiaroscuros of their generation. Their live shows, accomplished and energetic, are delivered by frontman Antonio García, a livewire on stage who soon has everyone up dancing and singing along to their songs.
the Côte d’Ivoire whose songs combine reggae with dub and soukous beats, recovering traditional African instruments such as the kora, the ngoni and the balafon.
His committed, revolutionary lyrics, stories of hard lives, of injustices and calamities are sung with a contrasting uplifting beat, creating songs to dance to and spreading an optimism that stands above all misfortunes.
The music brought to us by this London quintet is a celebration of life, packed with positive energy and great dance beats combining myriad styles and influences: Jazz, Afro beat, Afro Cuban, funky, salsa, grime, hip-hop, R&B, samba… A fabulous opportunity to have fun, dance and let yourself go, on the beach, with the energy, the joy, the magic and the multicultural sophistication of this group. Today’s Jazz!!
Since forming in 2019 ZETAK, fronted by Pello Reparaz, has released two successful albums and numerous singles that have racked up millions of streamings, huge hits in the Basque music scene that have gone on to become anthems for a whole generation: Zeinen Ederra Izango Den, Errepidean, Zoriontasuna… Electronic pop with catchy melodies, sung in Basque.
[post_title] => KELER GUNEA, DIVERSITY AND QUALITY ON THE ZURRIOLA BEACH [post_excerpt] => 8 free concerts: Village People + Fred Wesley & the New JBs + Tiken Jah Fakoly + Viva Suecia + Arde Bogotá + Ezra Collective + Blue Lab Beats + ZETAK [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => keler-gunea-diversity-and-quality-on-the-zurriola-beach [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-03-23 13:10:55 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-03-23 12:10:55 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://jazzaldia.eus/?p=32879 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [1] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 32406 [post_author] => 2 [post_date] => 2023-01-12 11:00:14 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-01-12 10:00:14 [post_content] =>- Club Victoria Eugenia: free entry while places last. However, an invitation must be collected from the Victoria Eugenia Theatre ticket desk on the same day of the concert, from 17:00 onwards. - Kutxa Kultur Kluba: tickets available from www.kutxakultur.eus. €3 for early purchases, and €5 from the ticket desk. -Altxerri: free entrance until complete capacity.
16 January | Lutfi Jakfar's Sixth Trio | Sala Club | 19:30 |
26 January | Trio Nordeste | Kutxa Kultur Kluba | 19:30 |
30 January | Xavi Maldonado and David Cid Quartet | Sala Club | 19:30 |
31 January | Mikel Legasa´s Quintet | Kutxa Kultur Kluba | 19:30 |
06 February | Isla Trío | Altxerri | 19:30 |
07 February | Les Cuisinieres | Sala Club | 19:30 |
08 February | Xahu | Altxerri | 19:30 |
12 February | Amaika Rude | Sala Club | 19:00 |
13 February | Brian Aching Project | Altxerri | 19:30 |
14 February | Kinkfolk | Altxerri | 19:30 |
16 February | Aldakan | Kutxa Kultur Kluba | 19:30 |
20 February | Arnaud Labastie Trío | Sala Club | 19:30 |
23 February | Ura Dúo | Kutxa Kultur Kluba | 19:30 |
09 March | Motelas | Kutxa Kultur Kluba | 19:30 |
21 March | Fuákata! | Altxerri | 19:30 |
For years the San Sebastian Jazz Festival had harboured the wish of billing Norah Jones in the city. That dream will come true on 22 July when the singer performs at the Kursaal Auditorium.
Another of the aims fulfilled is being able to enjoy two British artists we have tried to bill for several editions, and who will perform in the Plaza de la Trinidad this year: the singer Joss Stone and the saxophone player Nubya Garcia.
Completing our wish list are Ben Harper, who will perform for the first time at the Jazzaldia; and Enrico Rava, who had to postpone his show because of the pandemic, and who will finally come to this year’s San Sebastian Jazz Festival.
The programme for the paying concerts at the 58th Jazzaldia, to run from 21-25 July 2023, is varied, intense and hugely attractive.
This, Jazzaldia’s most iconic stage, will offer a programme of performances by legendary artists and brilliant new arrivals. Alongside classics such as Enrico Rava, with a quintet of emerging Italian musicians, and the great Abdullah Ibrahim with his trio, will be a new music quartet brought by a musician whose last performance at our Festival was simply marvellous: Bill Frisell. However, the Trini will also feature the presence of fantastic new names: the extraordinary guitarist Julian Lage, the above-mentioned Joss Stone and Nubya Garcia, and the superb Austrian keyboard-player David Helbock, with his latest project: the superband, Austrian Syndicate.
We will celebrate the 80th birthday of Kenny Barron, the best Jazz pianist still performing today, accompanied by the Basque Youth Orchestra (EGO) in their first appearance at the Jazzaldia.
Norah Jones, the star attraction on the programme, will perform on 22 July in what will be the first ever show given by the great pianist and singer in our city.
On the 23rd Ben Harper, the quintessential leading light of contemporary blues, will take to the stage.
On Monday 24, one of the all-time Jazz greats, Pat Metheny, with his Side Eye project, will perform in the company of some of the best up-and-coming names in the new generation of American musicians.
And, finally, on Tuesday 25th July, one of the most creative and exciting proposals on the Spanish scene, the singer Rocío Márquez with the musician and producer BRONQUIO.
Next year, 2023, is Basque Country-Japan year. To celebrate it, the 58th Jazzaldia will programme a piano season in the marvellous Museum cloister, exclusively dedicated to Japanese pianists.
The most important of all, and one of the country’s most universal musicians, is Yosuke Yamashita. His importance on the Jazz scene is enormous and his prestige incomparable. Yosuke will give two concerts: one dedicated to standard numbers and his own compositions, and the other to his particular and passionate take on the classical repertoire including Ravel’s Bolero and G. Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, among others.
The other three pianists, Kento Tsubosaka, Hakuei Kim, and Eri Yamamoto, who already played in the city, complete a thrilling season of the very highest musical quality.
Also going on sale, although the performing groups won’t be known in detail until April, are tickets for the JazzEñe season, to take place once again in the framework of the San Sebastian Jazz Festival. This will be the ninth edition of JazzEñe during which, for four days from 22-25 July, the audience will have the opportunity to enjoy 8 artists selected by the SGAE Foundation in its endeavour to attract attention to Spanish Jazz and take it into the international arena.
Tickets for the Plaza de la Trinidad, Kursaal Auditorium, San Telmo Museum and the Victoria Eugenia Theatre will go on sale at 11:30 on 15 December. Tickets can be purchased in person from the theatre desk and online, via the Jazzaldia (www.jazzaldia.eus) and Donostia Kultura (www.donostiakultura.eus) websites.
Although tickets go on sale today for the paying concerts, we still have heaps to announce on the Jazzaldia programme, all equally or more important than the names already revealed. Here we refer to the free concerts that will pack the streets of our city like every year.
In the coming months we will announce all these free concerts to run on stages such as the Nauticool, the Kursaal Terraces and the Keler Gunea. This latter stage, the most popular, on the Zurriola Beach, is once again named after Keler, our main sponsor for yet another edition.
[post_title] => 58th Jazzaldia: Norah Jones, Pat Metheny, Joss Stone, Abdullah Ibrahim, Ben Harper, Enrico Rava, Bill Frisell, Yosuke Yamashita, Kenny Barron, Nubya Garcia, Julian Lage, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Rocío Márquez & BRONQUIO, David Helbock… [post_excerpt] => Tickets and passes go on sale for the Plaza de la Trinidad, Kursaal Auditorium, San Telmo Museum and Victoria Eugenia Theatre [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => tickets-and-passes-go-on-sale-for-the-plaza-de-la-trinidad-kursaal-auditorium-san-telmo-museum-and-victoria-eugenia-theatre [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-03-07 09:38:37 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-03-07 08:38:37 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://jazzaldia.eus/sin-categoria-en/58-jazzaldia-norah-jones-pat-metheny-joss-stone-abdullah-ibrahim-ben-harper-enrico-rava-bill-frisell-yosuke-yamashita-kenny-barron-nubya-garcia-julian-lage-ladysmith-black-mambazo-rocio-m-2/ [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [3] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 32212 [post_author] => 2 [post_date] => 2022-12-15 11:00:24 [post_date_gmt] => 2022-12-15 10:00:24 [post_content] =>Roskow, the artist from San Sebastian, is the author of the poster for the 58th San Sebastian Jazz Festival. Accompanying the poster titled Free Jazz are another three illustrations to appear on the banners hanging throughout the city during the Jazzaldia. 58 copies of the poster and of each banner are now available for purchase in NFT format.
Roskow previously created the poster for the Jazzaldia in 2017, with an illustration representing a concert in the Plaza de la Trinidad. Six years later, he has once again created the poster and the three illustrations that go with it.
The idea for the poster comes from a small painting made by Roskow some years ago, a sketch on paper representing the ‘cubes’ of the Kursaal with the figure of a woman in the forefront. Later, the artist decided that the woman would be a saxophone player and included a percussionist and bass player to complete the band. The concept is simple, a Jazz trio playing in the street at dusk for what could be a celebration or meeting at the entrance to the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, where we imagine there is an audience listening to them. In the background, veiled in the nocturnal cloak so closely linked to Jazz music, is the true protagonist of the poster, the city, with a view of the bridge and the Kursaal.
To accentuate the feeling of a short story, somewhere between fiction and reality, and designed to lend variety to the banners, Roskow has produced another three illustrations. Each features the musicians individually, posing in photocall mode against the same backdrop of the bridge and the Kursaal.
Roskow is the artistic pseudonym of Fernando Huarte Campión, an artist from San Sebastian who lives and works in his home city. From his “operations centre” in the district of Egia, he creates and produces his artistic work with a do-it-yourself approach to production and creative independence: painting on canvas, engraving, digital illustration, silk screening…
Trained as a sculptor in the 80s at the Applied Arts schools of San Sebastian, Seville and La Palma in Madrid, his work is, in the main, pictorial, with the odd foray into engraving, illustration, album and book covers, and poster design.
Roskow’s paintings and engravings have their own easily recognisable style and take their inspiration from illustration, comics and the iconography of punk and new wave in the 80s and 90s. He is also passionate about the Middle Ages, Romanesque art, gothic paintings, the Flemish school and 20th century avant-garde painting. One of his main sources of inspiration is San Sebastian, “a city that just keeps on giving”. As he says: “I love painting San Sebastian, especially its architecture”.
Today he shares a space with the team of illustrators, photographers and artists at Lance&Malone. He is also preparing a major exhibition for the Galería Arteko, with which he has been working for several years.
In addition to these activities, Roskow has a more relaxed musical side that he loves and enjoys. It all started in the 80s with a group called the Elásticos, who later became the Rígidos and finally Los Hormigones. Today he continues to compose, recording and performing countless own numbers.
Roskow’s artwork can be found here: www.roskow.com And his musical production, here: www.loshormigones.com
58 copies of the poster and each of the banners for this edition of the Jazzaldia are now available for collectors and aficionados. The 4 works can be purchased in euros, either separately or at a discount of 20% for all 4. Every person buying an original NFT published for this year will have an additional reward: two free tickets to a concert at the San Sebastian Jazz Festival by Los Hormigones, the group fronted by Roskow, at a place, date and time still to be decided.
All related information can be found on our website, where you will also find explanations and information on NFTs, what they are and how they work.
In view of the success enjoyed by last year’s poster in NFT format, we now offer a second opportunity to use this technology as a service for those wishing to purchase and collect this type of artistic creations, in digital format and with their corresponding certificates.
To create and launch this process, we have worked with the company Bakarts and the posters can be purchased from their website (https://bakarts.io/). For the process of creating the NFTs we have worked with the Polygon blockchain network. This network’s technology means that the energy consumption for the transactions and process involved in the creating these NFTs is extremely low. The energy required to generate an NFT with this platform is the same as paying for a transaction with a credit card.
Source: https://blog.polygon.technology/polygon-the-eco-friendly-blockchain-scaling-ethereum-bbdd52201ad/ [post_title] => ROSKOW, AUTHOR OF THE POSTER FOR THE 58th JAZZALDIA, WICH IS NOW AVAILABLE AS AN NFT [post_excerpt] => Roskow, the artist from San Sebastian, is the author of the poster for the 58th San Sebastian Jazz Festival. 58 copies of the poster and of each banner are now available for purchase in NFT format. [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => roskow-author-of-the-poster-for-the-58th-jazzaldia-wich-is-now-available-as-an-nft [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-12-20 10:23:39 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-12-20 09:23:39 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://jazzaldia.eus/sin-categoria-en/roscow-es-el-autor-del-cartel-del-58-jazzaldia-disponible-ya-en-nft-2/ [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [4] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 31749 [post_author] => 2 [post_date] => 2022-08-17 10:00:07 [post_date_gmt] => 2022-08-17 08:00:07 [post_content] =>Diversity is the overriding note of the Keler Gunea programme for San Sebastian’s 58th Jazz Festival. Diversity of styles where you’ll be treated to funk, disco, reggae, Jazz, indie pop-rock and electronic music. Diversity of artist origins: European, African and American. And diversity of generations too, featuring emerging groups and artists like the Ezra Collective, Blue Lab Beats, ZETAK and Arde Bogotá; others more long standing like Tiken Jah Fakoly and Viva Suecia; and veteran legends like Fred Wesley and Village People.
KELER, our main sponsor, gives its name to this stage, the KELER GUNEA, which, like in previous years, can be found on the beach, next to the Zurriola breakwater.
This stage will host two free concerts every day from 21-24 July.
Fun and dance are guaranteed with Village People, one of the biggest groups in the history of pop music. Their songs with their catchy choruses are known by millions of people, and have been sung and danced by several generations all over the world.
The great North American trombone player is, without a doubt, one of the best composers and arrangers in the history of funk and Afro-American sounds.
His music is one of the most sampled of all times and, in his long career, Wesley has worked with big-name musicians including James Brown, as his music director, George Clinton, Ike and Tina Turner, Ray Charles, Maceo Parker, Count Basie, Van Morrison, Earth Wind & Fire, Pee Wee Ellis, Vanessa Williams, The S.O.S. Band, Cameo, De La Soul, Curtis Mayfield, Usher...
Possibly the band that best reflects the prevailing creative, fresh and innovative spirit of London’s ebullient Jazz scene. Taking their inspiration from the major works in the history of Jazz and from the pioneers of hip-hop’s golden age, NK OK and MR DM turn out elegant, urban and extremely cool music of unquestionable quality.
This group hailing from Murcia brings melodic forcefulness, profound lyrics and epic guitars. But it’s in their live performances that Viva Suecia unfolds their many virtues and where their songs reach their highest expression. Guided by Rafa Val on vocals, the group will roll out its arsenal of hits, anthems chanted by their fans who are certain to pack the Zurriola beach.
The Spanish-language rock produced by these youngsters from Murcia has enthralled thousands of fans with its powerful and distinct sound. Lyrics packed with content that conveys anger and irreverence, yet also talking about seduction, love and the chiaroscuros of their generation. Their live shows, accomplished and energetic, are delivered by frontman Antonio García, a livewire on stage who soon has everyone up dancing and singing along to their songs.
the Côte d’Ivoire whose songs combine reggae with dub and soukous beats, recovering traditional African instruments such as the kora, the ngoni and the balafon.
His committed, revolutionary lyrics, stories of hard lives, of injustices and calamities are sung with a contrasting uplifting beat, creating songs to dance to and spreading an optimism that stands above all misfortunes.
The music brought to us by this London quintet is a celebration of life, packed with positive energy and great dance beats combining myriad styles and influences: Jazz, Afro beat, Afro Cuban, funky, salsa, grime, hip-hop, R&B, samba… A fabulous opportunity to have fun, dance and let yourself go, on the beach, with the energy, the joy, the magic and the multicultural sophistication of this group. Today’s Jazz!!
Since forming in 2019 ZETAK, fronted by Pello Reparaz, has released two successful albums and numerous singles that have racked up millions of streamings, huge hits in the Basque music scene that have gone on to become anthems for a whole generation: Zeinen Ederra Izango Den, Errepidean, Zoriontasuna… Electronic pop with catchy melodies, sung in Basque.
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→15 concerts from January to March
→Tickets and passes go on sale for the Plaza de la Trinidad, Kursaal Auditorium, San Telmo Museum and Victoria Eugenia Theatre
→Roskow, the artist from San Sebastian, is the author of the poster for the 58th San Sebastian Jazz Festival. 58 copies of the poster and of each banner are now available for purchase in NFT format.
→La 2 de Televisión Española will broadcast, starting on August 17, 9 concerts of the 57 Jazzaldia that took place from July 20 to 25 (2022)
→Fantastic concerts, reunions and hugs to celebrate one of the editions with most attendees in the history of Jazzaldia
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