After the cancellation of the 2020 and 2021 editions due to the pandemic, the summer festival will be held next year to celebrate two decades of anniversary. The edition will feature more than 500 concerts and 413 artists in total.
Dua Lipa, Massive Attack, Gorillaz, Lorde, Beck, Tyler The Creator and Nick Cave are some of the stars who will perform at the next edition of Primavera Sound , which will be held in Barcelona between June 2 and 12, 2022, after the cancellation of the 2020 and 2021 editions due to the pandemic.
As reported on Tuesday by the festival, one of the most prominent of the summer season in Spain, the 2022 edition will be “the most ambitious”, with more dates, more artists and more capacity than any of the previous ones.
Pavement, Tame Impala, The National, The Strokes, Jorja Smith, Interpol, Megan Thee Stallion, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Disclosure or Jamie XX will also be present at this massive event, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary with 500 concerts, with a joint line-up in which practically all of the names canceled in 2021 will be in 2022, in addition to many other proposals.
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The Spanish scene will also be present with Maria del Mar Bonet, C. Tangana turned into El Madrileño, Bad Gyal, Amaia, Manel, Za! & La Transmegacobla, La Mafia del Amor, Sen Serna, Tarta Relena, Renaldo & Clara and Rigoberta Bandini.
Primavera Sound today made the festival’s program public through a video broadcast on networks in which the singer María José Llergo recited the very long line-up.
A video shot in part in the Apolo room in Barcelona, one of the many that will take center stage in Primavera 2022, as they will host the weekday programming of a festival that will last, for the first time in its history, for two weekends.
The Parc de Fòrum, the traditional nerve center of the festival, will host the weekend concerts, but will expand the available space to reach a capacity of between 75,000 and 80,000 people.
The two concert weekends at the Forum, the one from June 2 to 6 and June 9 to 12, will have different posters and “there are still some surprises to be revealed,” according to the organizers in a statement.
At the moment, the poster is made up of 413 artists who will offer more than 500 performances, since most of them will perform only once.
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“It will be an extraordinary edition that is explained by the combination between the two years without festivals that we have had to face and the desire to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Primavera Sound as it deserves,” they clarified in the statement.
The first weekend will bring back performances canceled by the pandemic, such as The Strokes, Tyler The Creator, Pavement, Tame Impala, Massive Attack, Gorillaz, The National, Jorja Smith and Beck.
The second weekend will focus on artists who have achieved stardom or submitted new work in recent months, such as Dua Lipa, which has been the most celebrated announcement on the networks, Big Thief and MIA
As reported by the Festival, all tickets already purchased for the 2020 and 2021 editions will allow you to attend one of the Primavera Sound 2022 weekends , which the buyer must choose, and it will also be possible to request a refund of the money.
