A few weeks ago walking towards la Plaça de Catalunya wonderful, melodious, soulful sounds I heard that made me feel like I was back on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.
My feet were tapping, my head bobbing, my fingers snapping. I was drawn to sounds like a child led by the Pied Piper.
I followed the scent of the notes and found myself right in front of the HardRock café.
There, lo and behold, were four people who blended like a chorus of one.
They were playing New Orleans Jazz, Russian, British and España style.
This group rocks, moves and shakes making it difficult for me to get the shots I like. I took photo after photo. In fact, in the past 2 weeks, I returned on two other occasions, shot more photos, for a total of 1 giga, the most I’ve ever taken of any one person, any one place, or any one thing. And even now, I feel that I didn’t do them justice. The way they move is only equaled to the way they sound.
YES! I really, REALLY like them!!
They are Barcelona’s very own New Orleans Ragamuffins with Pepe (Spain, the trumpet player), the two Mikhas, (Russia), banjo/piano and Sophie (Great Britain, clarinet). I was experiencing a wonderful mixture of sound and style.
To hear Pepe speak beautifully and ME, stumble in that embarrassing way I have, click HERE. I’m trying!!
For your viewing pleasure, click HERE and get a Barcelona taste of the New Orleans Ragamuffins on a QuickTime movie.
Oh! YEAH! I even BOUGHT their CD! In fact, I am listening to them as I write this.
Okay … okay. I’ve written enough and now you Enjoy!!
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Its a music comunity and it would be fun if more people could have the opportunity to get some information about this cool street-band.
I heard this group when i passed in barcelone and i love them. I bought their CD an is very very good. Good rythmes, meltin of jazz and blues songs. The CD cost only 10€, if you are opportunities to go in barcelone, and heard them, Take a few time to fell the music and buy their CD.
ReplyDeleteLike anonymous I also happened to catch them while I was walking through Barcelona. They were great fun to watch, and I bought the cd too, it's quite good and well worth getting.
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ReplyDeleteI am glad that you got a chance to see them.
I saw them playing again a few weeks ago, and the piano player was different.
Still fun to hear them, though.
Nice, some friends and I, once start playing some old instruments in a park just for fun, but when we realized there were many people watching and listening us and a guy came over and told us if we wanted to play in hard rock cafe which is weird because the music was folk.
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