Concerts and Festivals
As regards music Vigo offers a wide variety of events. The amphitheatre in Castrelos Park is an excellent outdoor arena and the Caixanova Cultural Centre designed by Antonio Palacios is the main concert hall and theatre. There is also a Conservatory and several night-time venues that organize jazz, pop and rock concerts.
Several renowned music festivals are held in Vigo throughout the year. The most important of these are the Vigo International Jazz Festival called Imaxina Sons and the Are-more Classical Music Festival.
Vigo International Jazz Festival - Imaxina Sons
The Vigo International Jazz Festival - Imaxina Sons - was originally organized in order to fill the demand that exists here for jazz music. It also aims to present new trends in jazz from the rest of Europe and to reflect the current situation of jazz in Galicia, and the rest of Spain.
Imaxina sons reflects current jazz trends here in Galicia and in Spain and Europe. The festival has brought artists like the Gianlui Trovesi Octet or the latest work by Daniel Humair, Baby Boom, to Spain for the first time. Spanish artists are also represented like Ramón López with "Eleven Drums Songs" and the tribute to Agustí Fernández. One must not forget what was a novelty for many; the jazz cello played by Vicent Courtois’, who frequently works with Louis Sclavis.
Concerts usually take place in the Theatre-Concert Hall in the Centro Cultural Caixanova, the Martín Codax Hall in the Conservatory, in the Town Hall, at the Verbum Jazz Café, Manteca Jazz Club, Praza da Estrela square, Montero Ríos Pedestrian Street, Pub Quomo and the Museum of Contemporary Art Hall.
Concerts in Castrelos Park
The local "Cristo de la Victoria" festival takes place every summer in Vigo. As part of the programme of activities there are several open-air pop-rock concerts and festivals in Castrelos Park with successful Spanish and international names.
CONCERTS CASTRELOS 2009
17th July: Keane
29th July:La Oreja de Van Gogh
12th August: Fuxan os ventosy Brath
13th August: Leonard Cohen
14th August : Ainhoa Arteta
CONCERTS TRANSATLANTIC PIER 2009
4th August: Marta Sánchez and Carlos Baute
5th August: Juan Perro ( Teloneiro Narf )
7th August: Vigofolk: Brath
8th August: Los secretos
9th August : Mala Rodriguez + Slowlee + Nasty mondays
11th August: Melendi
14th August: Coti + Ondina + Arkanos
Vigo Are-More Classical Music Festival
The Are-More Classical Music Festival has gradually become an important event in classical music. Artists have included some of the best voices of the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.
Polyphonic concert
The concerts used to celebrate in Verbum Museum.
Differents groups concerts
Groups:
- "Atlántida" of Matamá.
- Musical union of Valladares.
- School-group of music of Beade
- Musical union of Coruxo
- Group of San Miguel of Oia
- School-group of Candean
- Musiacl union of Cabral
- Ateneo musical of bembrive
- Delight of Caeiro.