About SummerStage 2023:
The 2023 season of Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage features nearly 80 free and benefit performances in 13 parks across all five boroughs. For its 37th season, the festival is going big, bringing salsa, jazz, indie-rock, country, bhangra, afrobeats, opera, and so much more. It will also be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop the way only SummerStage can; with artists from the very own city where the style was created, and from around the world where NYC’s influence on the genre still reigns supreme.
About Catalan Sounds on Tour: Queralt Lahoz / Marala / Lia Kali / DJ Trapella:
Queralt Lahoz is undoubtedly one of the Spanish musical sensations of recent years, and now also beyond its borders. Recently awarded with one of the prestigious Music Moves Europe Awards, granted by the European Union, she is one of the artists with more present and future of the entire national scene, leading one of the most groundbreaking and attractive musical proposals of the moment. Soul, hip hop, and dancehall, crossed by Latin, roots, and urban sounds, dialogue gracefully with naturalness on an aura of coplas and boleros that emerge spontaneously from her flamenco origins and her inner landscapes.
Born in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a center of Andalusian migration on the outskirts of Barcelona, where a large part of her family migrated from Granada, Queralt Lahoz draws on her tradition, on the genealogy of the working women in her life and on her suburban childhood to draw a flowery bridge between past, present and future, which gives her music an unmistakable character. With this combination, the Catalan artist defies convention and can transmit the strength and delicacy of a survivor. Queralt Lahoz has one of the most impressive voices on the scene, with the ability to sing a classic bolero and rap in the purest 90’s style with the same skill.
Marala is a musical group made up of Selma Bruna, Clara Fiol and Sandra Monfort. Three musicians and composers from Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Country. Voices of tradition, proximity and nakedness are mixed with guitars and traditional percussion instruments.
Poems of current poetesses, reviews of traditional songs, Sephardic tunes and wails of war are interspersed with fresh explanations, at the same time involved with feminism, cultural heritage or social criticism. A root proposal, bright and groundbreaking, that breathes with feminine breaths.
At the age of 16 and on a bicycle, Lia Kali started touring all the jams in Barcelona, and has never stopped singing since. After getting mixed up with reggae, jazz, soul and rap, she began to write about the falls and stumbles of her day-to-day life. This is how her first songs were born, and gradually she discovered that being on stage is her natural space.
Since then, Lia Kali‘s project has only expanded, with collaborations with artists such as Lupita’s Friends, Sofia Gabanna, Santa Salut, Elane, Hard GZ, Denom and Delaossa, among many others. Lia Kali is preparing her long-awaited first solo album for 2023.
DJ Trapella is known for her vindictive nature and the eclecticism of her sessions. Openly LGBTQ+ and with dissident gender identity, DJ Trapella mixes up current hits with most alternate sessions which become dynamic, fresh and surprising.
Marta Riera, better known as DJ Trapella, got her degree in biology and worked in a laboratory when, five years ago, she started exploring the world of dj's. In 2019, she had an opportunity to learn alongside DJ Hochi, which opened the doors for her. She quit her job at the end of 2021 to become a full-time professional DJ.
About The Weekly Review
The Weekly Review is Radio Primavera Sound's flagship show in English. Presented by Johann Wald, Ben Cardew and Mar Vallverdú, this weekly internet culture sound up sees two grown men and a bright young mind trying to understand a world that keeps getting younger. Keeping up with popular culture, so you don’t have to.
