Barcelona will experience on June 12, 13 and 14 the seventh edition of the Gran Price Vinyl Fest. It will be in the moat of the Mercat de Sant Antoni, with a musical program that will accompany a record fair that will offer the public more than 100,000 vinyl references.
With free admission, the event will combine record buying and selling with live performances, with a format that consolidates this Barcelona festival as a meeting point between collecting, club culture and the local and international scene.
Friday: live jazz
The program begins this Friday at 4 p.m. with the performance of Gozz, selector and visual artist who will propose a sound journey between soul, hip-hop and breakbeat. Next, Barcelona's DJ B. Ros, member of Furious Styles Crew, will take over to present his recent vinyl release, Queensbridge vs Shaolin, focused on nineties rap remixes.
The day will culminate with the concert of the Héctor Floriá Quartet, which will present Coordenades, a contemporary jazz work dedicated to the memory of Pol Vicente Audí. Accompanied by musicians such as Joan Casares, Xavi Torres and Pau Sala, the quartet will deploy a repertoire of original compositions that explore the freest and most spontaneous side of the genre.
Saturday: the ultimate challenge of DJs vs Dealers
On Saturday, June 13, the activity will focus on the festival's flagship dynamic, the DJs vs Dealers challenge. This format forces participants to present themselves without their own material, choose a fair stand by drawing lots and build a set in sixty minutes using only the available vinyls.
Sunday: 'sample' culture and Musical Bingo
Sunday's program will open to all audiences. In the morning, the Multipurpose Room will host a storytelling session by Tina Purpurina, designed for family audiences.
In parallel, the main stage will offer an immersion in sampling culture with Emma Stars, co-director of the festival, and Edu Movin On, director of the Movin On Soul Weekend and member of Discos Redondos. The proposal will confront original soul and jazz recordings with hip-hop tracks that used them as a base.
In the afternoon, the festival will close with the usual Musical Bingo with Pubilla Hilton, who will offer a session of soul, funk and rhythms from the sixties. In addition, fifty-euro prizes will be raffled among the fastest participants to recognize the songs, which must be spent at the fair stalls.
An international vinyl fair
Beyond the musical program, the Gran Price Vinyl Fest maintains its core in the record fair in the moat of the Sant Antoni Market, where local and international exhibitors offer discontinued items, rarities, and treasures for collectors. And it does so by bringing together sellers from the traditional Sant Antoni Sunday Market with exhibitors from Catalonia, Madrid, France, Germany, and the United States.
An event with history
The Gran Price Vinyl Fest is inspired by the historical trajectory of the Gran Price, a space inaugurated in the 1920s as a boxing and variety hall, and which throughout the 20th century hosted very diverse activities, from poetry recitals to krautrock concerts. Figures such as Pau Riba or international acts like José Feliciano performed in this space. A heritage that, according to the organizers of the event, remains present in this festival, which champions vinyl and brings it to our days.
