Fifty musicians will pay tribute to Víctor Uris with a concert on October 31.

PalmLázaro Méndez and Lluís Arboledas from Ossifar, Cap Pela, Los Atunos Rojos, Daniel Higiénico, Lorenzo Santamaria… These are just some of the names that make up the line-up for the tribute concert to the musician Victor Uris, who died in April 2024, that has been organized for next Friday. In addition to them, the list includes dozens of musicians and performers who will be taking to the stage in different formats, as well as the performance of Big Mama Montse and Pep Banyo with musicians, as it could not be otherwise, from the Armónica Coixa Blues Band. Uris was a member and founder of the band, which appeared in 1982 and is considered the first blues band in the Balearic Islands.

"Everyone has been involved, everyone, and if someone is missing it is because they could not be there, not because they did not want to," says Òscar Fornés, organizer of the event that will take place next Friday, October 31, starting at 7:30 p.m., in the Plaza de Alexandre Fleming, in the Plaza de Alexandre Fleming concert, in the Plaza de Alexandre Fleming, will display, from the same day, a permanent tribute to the renowned harmonica player. This is the Blues bank, a bench-shaped sculpture made by the artist Margalida Escalas, which will also be inaugurated on the 31st. The place chosen to place the sculpture will, in fact, also serve as a reminder of Victor Uris's time in the city: it will be on the corner of the same square with Arxiduc Lluis Salvador street, in front of where the Mil la de Uris bar was forged.

The initiative for this double tribute, in the form of a sculpture and a concert, was initiated by the Capitol Residents' Association and has received support from Palma City Council. The event, which will be hosted by Mònica Borràs, is expected to last three hours and include participants such as Marta Elka, Toni Pastor, and Salvador Font. Butter, among many others, although Fornés clarifies that "there are still some that are being added, and I'm sure that together we will fill the plaza with friends and music in memory of Víctor Uris."