2018 edition concert
One ends the sonorama telling herself that the 364 days left for the next edition will pass quickly, that there are still vacations to be spent, that there will be some absent-minded bridge out there, that the days of Christmas are yet to come and that surely there will be plenty of events, plans and parties to liven up the wait.
And then it comes the 2019 edition is already here, adding one more year to the 21 that the Sonorama Ribera festival has already been running. It is said soon, but withstand the passage of more than two decades and not stop growing it requires a little bit of observation, a bit of adaptation and a lot of daring to innovate.
Open ears to listen to the public
“Open ears to find out how our audience is evolving and what they want, but without losing the essence of a close and different festival. oh! And using an infallible weapon: the imagination”, Javier Ajenjo, founder of the festival, explained to Traveler.es.
The one from 2019 already points ways in that direction. In fact, for the first time his presentation party was held in Roa de Duero, a town located about 20 kilometers west of Aranda. It was last July 13 when groups like Juliet 21, Polar October and Olivia They went up on the stage of the Plaza del Pozo to offer the attendees clues of what awaits them starting August 7.
“It has been a first experience and we hope to continue with it in the coming years. Sonorama Ribera is not only Aranda but an entire region and the objective is that all the towns feel the festival as their own”, Ajenjo pointed out to then highlight that the problem of the emptied Spain is present in the festival “with El Hueco, in our 'Street to change the world'; and dedicating to the cause the image of the festival banners that are designed by Nano Lázaro, a local artist.
Thus, the Sonorama Ribera 2019 is already warming up with the guarantee of offering us the usual, lots of good music; and with the promise of news at our fingertips.
La Pegatina concert in the 2018 edition
Musically speaking, we will have a new stage at the festival. The urban-stage born with the intention of providing a space of its own for urban rhythms that in recent times have been heard enough. See, among others, the trap. Artists and groups like Cupido, Juancho Marqués, Delaporte, Ayoho, Fru Katinka or Funzo & Baby Loud they will pass by there on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 August. The Urban Stage will be located in the fairgrounds, which this year is empty since the Sonorama premieres location, next to the usual one.
premiere too concerts inside the Church of Santa María , whose imposing Gothic façade witnesses year after year the flow of people who wander between the stage of the Plaza del Trigo and the water fights to the rhythm of a DJ in the Plaza de la Sal. Inside, 300 people will be able to enjoy the performance of Holy Miranda _(Friday at 1:00 p.m.) _ and Joan As A Police Woman _(Saturday at 1:00 p.m.) _. The entrance will a cost of 5 euros to be donated to the restoration of the building.
And, since man does not live by music alone, Literature a gap has been made in this twenty-second edition with the cycle Sonorama is also written that arrives in Aranda de Duero from the hand of the Writers School.
Music inside and at the foot of the church of Santa María
The writer Benjamin Prado, journalist Fernando Navarro and a musician who will be revealed soon will star in the first of these conversations that will take place Saturday and that was born with the intention of becoming an essential for future editions.
From some meetings that arise to understand how music has influenced literature, to some MID talks with professionals from the music industry who will present their vision on different aspects of this sector . They will cover from the work of a band to achieve success to the need to make female projects visible in this industry, including how to get your group to perform at a festival or the music press.
This initiative, which will take place in the Cultural Caja de Burgos _(Plaza del Trigo, 8) _, is free to access and has plans allow access to the sound check of one of the bands performing on Saturday for which it is necessary to register through its website.
In the midst of so much encouragement, don't forget that you are here for the music and for many of the groups that make up a poster that seems more and more infinite. This year, two unexpected blows of effect: the last performance of the Delorean group that says goodbye to the stage and a comeback in style, that of Nacho Cano who, curiously, stopped acting just when Sonorama Ribera was born. Are you ready for this revival?
WHERE TO EAT
With a few editions of Sonorama behind us, it has already become a tradition to start each day with **the epic torreznos of 51 del Sol ** _(calle Sol de las Moreras, 51) _, which this year is once again organizing its rogue vermouth, that around noon it will offer live music from one of the groups that participate in the festival; and that you already have ready a menu that, for 42 euros , will allow you to enjoy the Grandma Montse croquettes (creamy where they exist) ; scallops, kimchi and their corals; beet and goat; courgette flower and bonito; suckling lamb roasted in a wood oven and their tiramisu and sheep's milk ice cream.