The filmmaker Woody Allen arrived this Sunday Barcelonacity in which he plans to present in a few hours at the Mooby Aribau Cinema his last movie, “Coup de Chance” (Luck of Luck), and inaugurate tomorrow Monday the Voll-Damm Jazz Festival 2023as reported by the promoter The Project.
He preview of “Golpe de Suerte”, which will hit Spanish billboards on the day 29will take place at the Mooby Aribau Cinema, the cinema with more capacity in the Catalan capital, about 1,200 seats, with tickets that went on sale a few weeks ago at a price of 10 euros.
On the other hand, the North American will inaugurate tomorrow the 55th edition of the Voll-Damm Barcelona Jazz Festivalwith two performances, also on Tuesday, at the Tivoli Theater, in what marks his debut at the event. Initially, the organizers had scheduled a only concertbut after announcing last June, they decided to schedule a second audition due to the fact that the capacity is “almost exhausted”.
About to fulfill 88 yearsamateur clarinetist and lover of classical jazz As always, the two concerts are the only ones he will offer in Spain. The promoter recalled this Sunday that there are still available some localitiesalthough “the concerts are about to hang up the poster sold out“.
He New York director He returns to a city that he likes, to which he has visited on other occasions and where he filmed, among other cities, the film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona“, in the summer of 2007.
Play the clarinet for years with a band, the New Orleans Jazz Banddirected until his death, in 2020, by Eddy Davisand, currently, for Conal Fowkes and Simon Wettenhallwhich allows him to “remember on stage real and fictional idols as Emmett Raythe protagonist of ‘Sweet and Lowdown‘, guitarist, played in the cinema by Sean Pennwhose reference and myth was Django Reinhardt”.
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In Barcelona will be accompanied by Conal Fowkespiano and musical direction; Simon Wettenhall (trumpet and musical direction); Brian Nalepka (double bass); Kevin Dorn (battery); Jerry Zigmont (trombone); and Josh Dunn (banjo). In an interview, Woody Allen has even stated that his love for jazz is “more powerful” than his love for the art that has made him famous, the cinema.
With these two concerts, the Voll-Damm Barcelona Jazz Festival 2023 will be officially inaugurated, in which they will also perform, until the end of December, Chucho Valdes, Joshua Redman, Sergio Mendes, Richard Bona with the Liceu Big Band, Tigran Hamásyan, Clara Peya and Ron Carteramong others.