IrídiaFest

IrídiaFest celebrates its fourth edition on Saturday 14 March at Sala Paral·lel 62 in Barcelona, consolidating itself as a festival where music and human rights share the same stage. Born in response to the culture of hate, the project embraces culture as a meeting place, a tool for social transformation and a driver of community.

This year, the focus turns to both shores of the Mediterranean, with a programme that connects tradition and the future through offerings that engage in dialogue between popular memory and contemporary electronic music. From País Valencià, Faixa reinterprets cant de batre and Moorish marches through dubstep, jungle and UK bass, building a bridge between roots and the avant-garde. From Morocco, Aïta Mon Amour revisits the legacy of Aïta and the Cheikhats through a feminist and electronic interpretation, in which the voice becomes a political gesture.

Barcelona-born Hajar will bring a hybrid journey crossing raï, funk, house and Brazilian music, while Baiuca will close the night with a DJ set linking folklore and electronic music through a contemporary perspective.

The festival is completed with a day of thought on Friday 13 March at CCCB, organised together with Artists at Risk, focusing on the role of culture in the face of persecution, exile and violence. An edition that understands music as celebration, but also as a form of shared resistance.