The stars are out again

The nights in the Cap Roig fes­ti­val have al­ways been full of stars, with big names from the na­tional and in­ter­na­tional music scene. The pan­demic forced the fes­ti­val held in Calella de Palafrugell’s Botan­i­cal Gar­dens to be sus­pended last year, but this sum­mer the stars are back, al­beit most are from closer to home as the big in­ter­na­tional tours are still under some re­stric­tions.

Nev­er­the­less, it will be a very in­tense month from July 23 to Au­gust 21, as the fes­ti­val or­gan­ised by Clip­per’s Live with the sup­port of Caix­a­Bank has 22 con­certs sched­uled. A few of the con­certs even sold out early on, specif­i­cally the per­for­mances by Els Amics de les Arts, Sopa de Cabra, Blau­mut, El Pot Petit, Estopa, Ai­tana and Morat.

Span­ish pop star Pablo López will open the fes­ti­val on Fri­day July 23, fol­lowed the next day by one of the clas­sic acts of Span­ish music, Raphael, who is say­ing farewell to the stage on his final tour, with an­other vet­eran of Span­ish music, José Luis Perales, per­form­ing on Au­gust 6.

As for the in­ter­na­tional con­tin­gent, Pe­ru­vian tenor Juan Diego Flórez will per­form on July 31, with the spec­tac­u­lar Lebanese vi­o­lin­ist Ara Ma­likian on Au­gust 5, two days after British singer-song­writer Pas­sen­ger makes his re­turn to Cap Roig. Other acts re­turn­ing to the fes­ti­val are Tabu­rete, Hom­bres G, An­to­nio Orozco, David Bis­bal and Sílvia Pérez Cruz, who is from Palafrugell. Pop-rock will be rep­re­sented this year by Love of Les­bian on Au­gust 11, while the magic will be pro­vided by Mag Lari on Au­gust 15. Sara Baras will bring the fes­ti­val to a close on Sat­ur­day Au­gust 21.