The Fundación La Caixa has programmed Red Priest to highlight the Old Music Festival in Barcelona on May 18th, in the hope of providing a musical “facelift”. According to Maricarmen Palma, from La Caixa who has been its organizer for the last quarter of a century, the Festival “now in its 28th year seemed like it was only getting older”.
Red Priest has carved out a name for itself in the classical crossover circuit which seeks to breathe new life into traditionally classical venues where, according to Mrs. Palma, it is necessary “to give the benefit of the doubt to new groups” in an effort to “have fun and rejuvenate the Festival”, at the risk of “awakening negative opinion of the critics” given that the virtuoso Red Priest production “comes close to rock”.
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