Every St. John's Eve el Círculo de Bellas Artes It opens its doors to street performers in a grand celebration full of color, spectacle, and above all, music. The Barbarous Nights, a festival of street musicians who live outside the industry, artists who surprise us with their show around any corner, in the middle of a busy underground passage or amidst the traffic of a pedestrian street.

This book, which also includes the CD The Barbarous Nights vol. 3 and the DVD The barbarian lives This collection brings together a series of texts about street musicians in different parts of the world. Yolanda Pividal's article on New York introduces us to one of the icons of street music. Victor LenoreIn turn, this approach to street musicians in Madrid and Barcelona is unusual: by asking professional musicians and music critics about their street musician colleagues. Furthermore, articles dedicated to street musicians in non-Western contexts reveal unsuspected potentialities of this form of artistic communication. Thus, while Santiago Alba Rico analyzes the performances of Sufi musicians in the streets of Cairo and Bruno Galindo He is approaching Kingston, one of the great breeding grounds of contemporary popular music, Fouzia Saeed He writes about the red-light district of the Pakistani city of Lahore, where the services of prostitutes are linked to the activity of a caste of musicians.

The book also includes abundant photographic material by the teachers and students of CAMPUS, the photography workshop run by PHotoEspaña about Las Noches Bárbaras (The Barbarous Nights) and street musicians. This time, the following participated:
Jake Abbott, Eduardo Cervera, Dolores Couceiro, Sofía de Juan, Luis de las Alas, Fernando Giménez, Guillermo Gumiel de la Torre, and Gianfranco Tripodo. Eva Sala and Luis Asín also contributed photographs of the festival and street musicians.

"The surprising texts of The barbaric nights They take us—accompanied by abundant photographic material—to the streets of New York, Cairo, Kingston, Lahore, and Madrid to bring us closer to their reality."
(Carlos Galilea, Babelia)

"His articles help us remember that the core genres of popular music (blues, folk, country) were forged in the streets of cities now considered cultural treasures (Chicago, New York…), that in countries as fertile as Jamaica the street was a key stage and that some admirable Spanish musicians have also had their revelatory street experience."
(Nando Cruz, Exit)

Report on the Barbarous Nights in the magazine Minerva

Listen to the album from the 1st edition of the Barbarous Nights

Listen to the album from the 2st edition of the Barbarous Nights