Silence at the disco. The clubs turned off their lights last weekend and, with that, the tourist season can be considered over in Ibiza. The big news of this year's closings was not any new attendance record, nor any memorable DJ set, not even David Guetta's sixth declaration as the best DJ in the world. No: the news was that the model and presenter Cristina Pedroche has become a DJ. Taking advantage of the fact that her husband, the superchef Dabiz Muñoz, has opened a restaurant in Ibiza, the superpresenter debuted as a DJ at the closing of the new StreetXO at Playa d'en Bossa. Because, yes: in Ibiza, restaurants also have closings. In Ibiza, soon even the garbage truck will have a closing when it finishes its shift. Pedroche has become a DJ and has been showered with hate. On social media, they have called her everything, and not very politely. And the presenter was surprised. I don't know why; Kiko Rivera also gets tons of hate in his meteoric career as a singer and disc jockey. Surely Paris Hilton and Pocholo Jiménez-Bordiú were also objects of mockery when they got behind the decks.

The Obra Cultural Balear (OCB) and the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) are organizing the conference series The language that is sung. Music and linguistic normalization (1986-2026), which began this Thursday and will continue until Saturday at Ca n’Oleo, in Palma. The series proposes a look at the role of music as a space for cultural, educational, and linguistic transmission, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of linguistic normalization policies and the 50th anniversary of Cucorba, a musical and educational project linked to the dissemination of music in Catalan among children.

The Mallorcan group Pitxorines will participate this October in the Fira Mediterrània de Manresa and BIME Bilbao, two music industry gatherings that bring together artists, programmers, agents, festivals, and other professionals in the sector. The first performance will be on October 16 at 8:00 PM, at the Fira Mediterrània de Manresa, where the group will present their second work, Sa Falda Girada, in a 45-minute concert.

On the night of July 17, 1936, Conxita Badia was rehearsing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Palau de la Música Catalana under the direction of Pau Casals. The work was to inaugurate the People's Olympiad in Barcelona, conceived as a response to the Olympic Games that Nazi Germany was holding that summer in Berlin. During the rehearsal, news of the military uprising arrived. The concert would not take place. Before parting ways, Casals proposed that the musicians perform the final movement one more time, the song of fraternity built by Beethoven upon Schiller's Ode to Joy. They did not know when they would meet again.

Three of the most prominent voices in Majorcan music, Maria del Mar Bonet, Júlia Colom, and Maria Jaume, have been recognized by critics in the ninth edition of the Enderrock Balearic Music Awards. The awards will be presented on November 18th at the Teatre Principal in Palma.

La Oreja de Van Gogh will extend its Spanish tour until 2027 and will return to Mallorca to perform at the Mallorca Live Occident on June 11 and 12. The band from San Sebastian announced this Tuesday seven new performances at festivals throughout the country, among which is their date on the island.

Rhythm is born in Africa. It is worth starting here before asking ourselves what jazz is. Because there are still those who imagine it as music of dark clubs, expensive drinks, and a certain cultural liturgy reserved for the initiated.

For years, music took a back seat for Valtònyc. Now, 18 years after his beginnings in the world of hip-hop, the rapper returns to the stage with a project that he himself defines as the “most mature” of his career. It is called Jazztonycs and it abandons the more conventional borders of rap to delve into a combination of jazz, funk, improvisation, and groove.

The Plaça de Mallorca in Inca will become a meeting point this Saturday, September 19, for several generations of musicians to pay tribute to Cucorba, one of the children's music groups most linked to the popular culture in Catalan of Mallorca. The concert, organized by the Obra Cultural Balear (OCB), will begin at 7:30 PM.

There were still a few hours left before the Council proclaimed him Favorite Son of Mallorca, but Rels B preferred to start the celebration without waiting for the diploma. In front of more than 30,000 people gathered between the Parc de la Mar and the Passeig Marítim and with the Cathedral illuminated in the background, Daniel Heredia wanted to celebrate the distinction in his own way: with a free concert, on the eve of the Diada, so that anyone could share the recognition with him.

Palma hosts this Friday, September 11, the free concert by Rels B, one of the main events of the Diada de Mallorca. The Mallorcan artist will perform starting at 9:30 PM at the Parc de la Mar and the Passeig Marítim, in a concert co-organized by the Consell de Mallorca and the Palma City Council. Access will be free until full capacity is reached.

The Coral de Sant Joan has seen the completion of its 50th anniversary program of events with the presentation of the commemorative book written by musicologist and researcher Bàrbara Duran Bordoy. Under the title of Cantar al Pla de Mallorca. 50 years of the Coral de Sant Joan, last Saturday and within the framework of the patron saint festivities, the parish church was filled with friends, singers, and neighbors.

Joan Oliver Roig (Manacor, 2002) Cosijoan, is a rapper and History of Art student. Red cap from Manacor and Majorica pearl necklace. He has just released his first album Morir d'èxit, a real declaration of intent for a work that starts melodically but ends up being incredibly raw. He presents it next Saturday, September 12th, at Sa Factoria in Manacor.

The Majorcan artist Daniel Heredia, artistically known as Rels B, will offer a free concert in Palma on September 11th to mark Mallorca Day and his appointment as Favorite Son of Mallorca. The performance, organized by the Consell de Mallorca, will begin at 9:30 PM in the area between the Parc de la Mar and the Paseo Marítimo of the Balearic capital.

The Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, led by its principal conductor, Sir Mark Elder, was responsible for setting off the grand finale of the fireworks display that marked the latest edition of the Pollença Festival. Sixty-five editions stand testament to it, and its momentum only serves to enhance its legend. The full capacity of each and every one of the seven concerts that made up the program could serve as a sufficiently eloquent summary of what it has been, with this festive closing of a magnitude that merely anticipates the next edition.

Perhaps by the time this text is published, it's already considered charca to say that something is charca. But delving into this topic has become a necessity, an obligation (and for my friends, an obsession). In short, something much more complex and less frivolous than I would have wished, which initially was reduced to a list of things that made us be charca (in my interpretation, of course).

Second to last concert of an edition, by Muffati-Brussels Baroque Orchestra, until then immaculate and with one of the concerts that for some was almost the cherry on top of a magnificent cake. An evening entirely dedicated to the one who was everything, Johann Sebastian Bach, with a tasty and rich program, like a small great demonstration of the undisputed condition of the great capoper of music history. For example, with the first piece, the "Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV 1050, which treasuresa first majestic and original movement, the impeccable combination of the different solo instruments, harpsichord, flute, and violin crowned by an innovative sixty-four-bar cadence by the harpsichord, which until that moment in history only served as a fundamental but not very ostentatious basso continuo. Only with this Allegro initially we had enough ingredients to enjoy thoroughly. It wasn't like that. Just when it had barely started, a gust of wind blew away Frank Theuns's sheet music and perhaps here the elements allied against any possibility of enjoyment. Hope was placed in the cadence, but not even that. Violaine Cochard, at the height of her performance, seemed to be chasing the notes as if it were an obstacle race to align them with those coming from the original; a task that was almost impossible without the adequate (over)dose of virtuosity. It is easy to imagine that it was not simple to sort out the mess.

In 2024, twenty years after launching the musical project Mazoni, the captain behind it, Jaume Pla (la Bisbal d’Empordà, 1977), decided he had to stop. The alarms were clear: “Before some concerts, I thought that if it rained and I got paid, it was fine. That thought scared me. A musician can't not want to go out and play,” he says in a conversation with ARA Balears. This week he has two concerts in the Islands to present the album he released last September, Banderes per daltònics, a return to the most pop sounds in the project's history: on Thursday, August 20, he will be at Jazzbah in Ciutadella; on Friday, August 21, he will present the album in Santanyí (in the courtyard of Col·legi Bisbe Verger), in a concert that is part of the summer festival program of the Fundació Mallorca Literària, La Lluna en Vers. They will be concerts with the whole band: “The last few times I've come to Mallorca, I've been solo. I'm very excited to come with the whole group to do these two concerts, for them to be energetic and to find that feeling that you seem to be floating when you make music. I think it's an album that is enjoyed more as a group”.

The second week of August Menorca has welcomed a new large-format music festival, Ukalari Live. The managers of the theater of the same name in Ciutadella, Alberto Gómez and Miriam Torres, dare to program 10 days of concerts, from David Bustamante to The Tyets and the tribute This is Michael, in a venue set up at the Sporting Maonès football field which can hold 4,000 people. These days employ about thirty people and cause the indirect creation – they estimate – of 300 more jobs. A significant leap, but they say it is controlled, compared to what they are used to at the old Calós theater, now Ukalari, where in two years they have managed to regularly fill its 575 seats and have attracted nearly 25,000 spectators.

In Mallorca, one of the great allies of the boom of tourism were the so-called tourist songs. The lyrics praised the island's scenic wonders. The seed was already sown in the 40s of the 20th century by the Majorcan musician Pere Bonet Mir (1917-2002), better known as Bonet de Sant Pere and professionally Bonet de San Pedro. In the midst of the post-war period, in the song Bajo el cielo de Palma, he proclaimed to the four winds “paisajes lindos tiene Mallorca”. He would deal with the same theme in Un viejo hogar en la isla, Juntito al mar, Cala d’Or, and Canto a Mallorca. These utterly naive compositions contrasted with the famous song Raska-yú, which in 1943 the island artist wrote as a parody of death in times of great misery (Franco's regime even censored it, suspecting it contained an implicit criticism of the dictatorship).