Yesterday, the mega sports machine of ESPN has announced that they will be bring the X games to Barcelona in 2013.  Barcelona is a meca of skateboarding and X games sports and is excited to see this come to Spain.

The list of X Games host cities will grow by three in 2013, as ESPN announced Tuesday that Barcelona, Spain; Munich, Germany; and Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, have been chosen as X Games venues for the next three years…

X Games to grow from three to six events in 2013 – ESPN.

International Woman´s Day as decribed in Wikipedia

The UN theme for International Women’s Day 2012 is Empower Women – End Hunger and Poverty.^[13] In many countries, International Women’s Day is an occasion to honor and praise women for their accomplishments. In 2012, Oxfam America is inviting people to celebrate inspiring women in their lives by sending a free International Women’s Day e-Card or honoring a woman whose efforts make a difference in the fight against hunger and poverty with Oxfam’s International Women’s Day award.^[14]

On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2012, the ICRC is calling for more action to help the mothers and wives of people who have gone missing during armed conflict. The vast majority of people who go missing in connection with conflict are men. As well as the anguish of not knowing what has happened to the missing person, many of these women face economic and practical difficulties. The ICRC underlines the duty of parties to a conflict to search for the missing and provide information for the families

Since we arrived in Barcelona 8 years ago – when we were discovering local musicians and helping to develop the concept for the music documentary Playing for Change – Local Producer has taken great pride in working with the local Spanish music scene.  This year was no exception at the MWC.  Our goal each year is to convince visiting clients to hire more local performers, instead of importing them, for their entertainment.  This year we had several local acts perform over two days at the Fira conference center – all received glowing reviews from the public and the client. 

The first day was highlighted by some smooth saxophone by Lucila Ciocoletto on the conference floor and then jamming with Nokia´s own DJ Hannu during Happy Hour.  Later, Lucila was joined by her guitarist, Leonardo Ferrari for a duet performance.

Day 2 at the Nokia ´Adventure in Barcelona´Happy Hour was kicked off by the Bella Union String Band, this collection of Barcelona all-star musicians was put together specifically for this performance.  They played a set of original songs and jams driven by the violin strumming of Naomi Wedman and vocals by Daniel Dodds.  These Barcelona-based performers regularly tour in their various groups throughout Spain and Europe.

The finale was a performance by Local Producer´s own Barcelona Brazilian Samba School lead by Ms. Fernanda Accorsi Santos.  Dancing through the crowds and accompanying the beats of DJ Hannu to rounds of applause.

We would like to share some highlights of their performances and again ask our followers to support live local music.

Barcelona is lleno de talented performers struggling to survive and still produce their music.  Local Producer would like to help.  If you are a local musician, we want to hear from you so we can have you on file for productions and events.

Local Producer has a large network of music professionals – record label executives, band managers, film students that want to make music videos, sound techs, other musicians and fans that appreciate live music.

Our goal is to ´keep music live in Barcelona´

If you are an interested musician or have a band, please email us with a clean concert video, a few photos, a short description of your project/ style of music and the instruments.  If you have a festival or concert coming up, let us know so we can talk about it.

We will use this to promote your band.  Please keep in mind, the easier you make it for us, the quicker we can start to promote your music.

We appreciate your efforts and will see you on stage soon!

Local Producer first mentioned this festival a few weeks ago on our Facebook page when we were creating our own homemade brew! (Name our beer contest coming soon)  Now the weekend is upon us and we will be there with Steins/ Jarras in hand to sample some of Barcelona´s newest – hopefully finest and at least just something more tasteful than the typical Estrella DON´T beer.  Full disclosure – Estrella DON´T was originally moniker-ed by Paul Morrisroe – friend of LPE – we can not take credit.

Check back for updates on our beer making and a full report from the floor of the Barcelona Beer Festival.

Location:

Convent de Sant Agustí (C/ Comerç, 36), barrio de la Ribera (Born)

Dates and Time:

El festival se celebrará los días 9, 10 y 11 de marzo de 2012.

Viernes 9: de 12h a 21h.

Sábado 10: de 11h a 21h.

Domingo 11: de 11h a 21h.

Read more:

Cerveza Artesana Homebrew, S.L. | Barcelona Beer Festival 2012 [163].

Tonight at 22:30 in Bel-Luna Jazz club Barcelona, Local Producers´own multi-talented – Ms. Fernanda Accorsi Santos will be accompanying François Caballero & Jonás Santana with vocals and percussion, for a night of popular Barsileira bossa nova and samba – we are sure she will be doing some dancing as well.

More information and RSVP:

Bel-Luna Jazz Club & Restaurant. Jazz y buena mesa todas las noches del año en Barcelona..

It will be in full force from the 24th til the 26 of November, from 17:30 – 21:30 at the metro Universitat.

(www.TMB.cat)

Local Producer´s Brian Heinen was asked to participate in a special 10 year anniversary exhibit of Live Music in the metro (Barcelona), by producer Acardi Poch (Kognitif Platform Productions) to open the festival.  Brian´s interview about the live music scene in Barcelona was featured in a video that is on display in the Sala Merce in the Metro Diagonal station,   (See Video below)

After various live music productions in Spain; starting with the local production of the “Playing for Change” documentary and continuing to the Local Jam  and Tommy Hilfiger Sessions platform (http://localproducer.es/eventplanning/), Brian has an extensive perspective of the direction of local live music.

Brian discusses in the interview his belief that the local public and musician need to be more proactive in supporting the music scene through the education on the value of live music.  He describes how, “it is not just enough to view free concerts supported by the government, but to understand the importance of paying for the right to have quality live music.”  Brian believes, “Quality music is a privilege, not a right and the public should feel the need to pay or commit for it.  The public should want go to hear live music – not only for the brand name musicians – but for the culture and recognition of the live music venues.”

View more about what Brian (8min 40 sec.)  and others in the Barcelona music scene had to say in the video:

Guiri Business Drink Montly Meet-up// November 16th // Barcelona//sponsored by Metropolitan Mag | Guiri Business.

Local Producer organizes these monthly Business networking events and manages the LinkedIn Group.  This month will be our largest event, weather permitting, with close to 85 members already confirmed.

FREE to enter

Nov 16th 19:00 – 21:00

Please RSVP here: http://linkd.in/s4fYwE

This Thursday evening will be the inauguration of “En un món anònim…” an exposition curated by colleague, Arcadi Poch (Kognitif Producion), to celebrate 10 years of sponsored music in the Barcelona metro.  I will be participating in this project in a short video interview discussing the live music scene and culture of Barcelona. I will return with a follow up, including the video and pictures when available.

I am happy to see that the Barcelona city government is moving forward with the discussions to allow more live music in bars, restaurants & cafés.  I hope that this is a first step towards access to more music and independent musical events in the city.

This exposition will be on going in the Sala Gaudi at the Metro Diagonal.

I will be reporting more on the development of the music scene in Barcelona through our Local Jam Twitter account (@LocalJam) in the coming days and weeks.  Keeping music live in Barcelona!

Guiri Business | Category Archive | News.

LinkedIn Guiri Business Group Update: Barcelona Business Lunch / Madrid Business Drink – Help Needed

October Update:

The October Guiri Business drink in Barcelona was again very successful.  We have been receiving positive feedback from the 75+ members that attended, making it the largest to date.

See a few picture of the event on our flickr account:

http://bit.ly/szGPGM

We will be holding the November drink on Wednesday the 16^th, please see our LinkedIn invite to RSVP for it and receive your free welcome drink.

http://bit.ly/rr2RDY

The Guiri Business group would like to thank our Barcelona media partner, the Metropolitan magazine and location partner, Fahrenheit Lounge, for their support.

We would also like to thank Scissors of London´s Tim Bulmer for donating a free haircut as our business card give-a-way prize.  Please read more about Tim at his LinkedIn profile here: http://linkd.in/sUAaH8

Announcements:

Now, we would like to announce the next step in the Guiri Revolution, the Guiri Business lunch!

The Guiri Business group is actively searching for a location partner in Barcelona for these more intimate networking lunch events.

The Guiri Business group is also searching for a Guiri member to help us organize and manage in Madrid and potential meet-ups in other cities.  If you are interested, please send a private email correspondence to either:

Brian Heinen: Brian@LocalProducer.es

Willem van Oort: Willem@VanOort.org

Guiri Business will continue to update the group and add more to our website in the coming months.  More articles, webinars, Classified ads and features.  We welcome the participation of all Guiri´s in improving our group and any suggestions are encouraged.

Guiri Business group is quickly closing in on 3,000 members in the LinkedIn Group and ask your help to achieve this by the end of October.

Please invite your Guiri and Spanish business connections to join us:

http://linkd.in/ue8sig

Thank you

Guiri Business -

Willem van Oort  ( LinkedIn @ http://linkd.in/thLE8D )

Brian Heinen ( LinkedIn @ http://linkd.in/sKcmU4 )

Margaret Stepien El bulli.(Link)

 Local Producer event photographer and good friend, Margaret Stepien, is back with some new photos from El Bulli

She also has a new book out with photography of the famous La Boqueria Market on Las Ramblas!!  Great work Marge!

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