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Music 
2nd August 2024 A NIGHT OUT AT ‘16 TONELADAS’ IN VALENCIA
Based in the barrio of Campanar, ‘16 Toneladas’ is a welcoming live music venue with a dedicated audience. It is just a 10 minute walk from the historic centre of Valencia and near the main coach station of the city. The doors have just opened for this evening’s concert by J.P. Bimeni and The Black […]
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Food 
30th July 2024 A PLETHORA OF PAELLA
Paella has become a gastronomic delight with a truly international reach and with Spanish restaurants, all over the globe, featuring the rice dish on its menu. Yet its origins are in Valencia. Any proud Valencian will tell you that if you’ve ever had something calling itself paella outside Valencia…that really all you’ve had is rice […]
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Music 
29th July 2024 SUZANNE VEGA PLAYED ‘LA RAMBLETA’ VALENCIA (EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC REPORT)
From New York City! The rousing applause extended on as Suzanne Vega took position at her microphone and put on her black top hat. The spacious stage was sparse, consisting of only Vega and Gerry Leonard…her producer and guitarist. The fans were attuned to Vega’s every gesture and utterance as she opened with her homage […]
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education 
26th July 2024 A ‘BOOK TRUCK’ TO ENCOURAGE READING
The latest international PIRLS studies (2021) that assess the reading comprehension of students in the 4th year of Primary Education show that Spanish students continue to be below the European average in reading comprehension. There is a growing need to improve reading promotion strategies in schools, which is why the ACORD project redesigns reading spaces […]
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Popular Festivals 
26th July 2024 ‘SAGUNT A ESCENA’ 2024 ADDS FLAMENCO, URBAN MUSIC, and FOLK, JAZZ, ELECTRONIC AND POP TO ITS PROGRAMME!
The 41st edition of the Sagunt a Escena festival (1-25 August), organised by the Institut Valencià de Cultura (IVC), this year incorporates a wide variety of musical genres and styles, from flamenco to urban music, folk, jazz, electronic and pop music, with a wide range of concerts and sessions to be held both at the […]
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Music 
25th July 2024 NEARLY 45,000 ATTENDEES ENJOY THE 17 DAYS OF LIVE MUSIC AT THE VIVEROS 2024 CONCERTS!
25 national and international artists confirm that this series of concerts is a benchmark for summer nightlife choices. Taburete, Camela, Pablo López, Los Zigarros, Gilberto Santa Rosa and Carlos Vives have been the most popular concerts, while ‘The Cult’ has reached ‘sold out’. As a novelty, this year 2024 the Viveros Concerts have become a […]
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Music 
25th July 2024 ‘OROBIANCO’ IN SUMMER
As we reach the halfway point of summer, ‘Orobianco’ welcomes the most festive month of the year with an extensive calendar of activities, concerts and events. The August programme the most musical to date…includes live performances by artists such as the saxophonist Alejandro Pugliano, the jazz bands ‘Smooth Jazz Blues’ and ‘More Than Jazz’, or […]
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Music 
24th July 2024 VALENCIA MUSIC…REMEMBERING WHEN THE LEGENDARY ‘JOHN MAYALL’ PLAYED VALENCIA
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE “GODFATHER OF THE BRITISH BLUES” IN VALENCIA John Mayall (OBE) is a musical legend on both sides of the Atlantic. Born in Macclesfield in 1933 he was married with children, an art designer and part-time musician in the 1950s. By the early 1960s, the live blues scene was starting to grow […]
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tourism 
24th July 2024 RYANAIR CELEBRATES ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY AT VALENCIA AIRPORT WITH A HIGH VOLUME OF BOOKINGS FOR THE SUMMER!
Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 airline, today (24 July) celebrates the milestone of 20 years of operations at Valencia Airport with a high volume of bookings for its summer schedule on 64 routes, including three new routes to Birmingham, Lamezia, Sofia, Verona, Warsaw and Wroclaw. Ryanair’s summer 2024 schedule at Valencia will offer: 8 aircraft – […]
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Music 
23rd July 2024 ‘PAQUITO D’RIVERA QUINTET’ PLAY JAVEA INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL ON 3 AUGUST!
‘Paquito D’Rivera Quintet’ will be at the annual ‘ Javea International Jazz Festival’ on 3 August. Joining D’Rivera are Pepe Rivero (piano), Yuvisney Aguilar (percussion), Reinier Elizarde Ruano(double-bass) and Sebastian Laverde (vibraphone). The concert is at 22.30h and is with seating and is free for the public. Paquito D’Rivera, the versatile Cuban musician, is known […]
