On June 21 of each year, coinciding with the summer solstice, the European Music Day is celebrated with the aim of promoting cultural exchange through music. Madrid has always celebrated this festival in style, and this 2022 it will do so with more reasons than ever with concerts and extraordinary musical activities of all styles and genres, with the Matadero (Plazade Legazpi, 8) as the main venue for endless proposals that the City Council has organized for the previous weekend (June 18 and 19).
With the collaboration of Mondo Sonoro, the Plaza de Matadero will host a great tribute to the Beach Boys in which two of the musicians from Madrid who have delved deeper into the entire musical history of the Californian band will be the musical director: Germán Salto , confessed adorer of Brian Wilson and the orchestral arrangements of Van Dyke Parks, and Fernando Pardo, member of the mythical Sex Museum and alma mater of Los Coronas, the Madrid surf group par excellence.
Accompanied by a host of adorers of the sounds of the boys on the beach, to whom special guests will be added, these two masters of ceremonies will take an extensive tour of the discography of the creators of hymns such as 'Good Vibrations' or 'Surf in USES'. On stage you can see Willie Planas (keyboards and voices), Alberto Anaut (guitar, keyboards and voices), Manu Garaizabal (guitar), Pablo Solo (bass and voices) and Iñigo Pilatti (drums and percussion), and there will be collaborations specials by Angel Stanich and his band, María Yfeu, ELE and a surprise participation by an internationally renowned artist.
Another of the great proposals for this year's Music Day is the exhibition that the Central de Diseño will host between June 2 and 30. This is 'Light Years', an exhibition in which Graham MacIndoe presents the most ambitious look that has ever been launched on the band The National, with more than twenty years of photos of one of the most popular indie formations that the XXI century. Forty black-and-white photographs chart the course of five Cincinnati friends on their way to fame, and will also include the iconic book from which the exhibition stems as well as various materials that MacIndoe has collected over the years as picks. , 'setlists', 'merchandising' or tickets. In addition, on June 7 you can attend a masterclass (11am) and a meeting with the photographer (7pm).
Cineteca Madrid is also joining the party with 'Musicalidades', a special program that will demonstrate that the history of cinema and music have been inseparable over the last century. Lastly, the Madrid Municipal Symphonic Band will offer a great open-air concert at the Temple of Debod on the same day, June 21 (9:30 p.m.), with a repertoire that will include 'Nabucco' (Overture), by Guiseppe Verdi, 'La dance of the seven veils' (Salomé opera) by Richard Strauss, 'Egyptian March', by Johan Strauss, 'Aida' (ballet music and triumphal march) by Guiseppe Verdi, 'Rolly Pops' (for two trumpets and band) by Jean-François Michel, 'La Marchener'a (intermediate) by Federico Moreno Torroba, 'La boda de Luis Alfonso' (interlude) by Jerónimo Giménez and the chotis 'Madrid, Madrid' by Agustín Lara.
