Folk music in Bilbao Spain

Subject: Folk music in Bilbao Spain
From: RamblinStu
Date: 09 Sep 10 - 04:26 AM

I shall be in Bilbao for a few days soon and was wondering if anyone knows of any folk music venues there?

Subject: RE: Folk music in Bilbao Spain
From: Zen
Date: 09 Sep 10 - 05:19 AM

El Residence Cafe, c/Barraincua, Bilbao sometimes has folk and blues on and might be worth checking.

Subject: RE: Folk music in Bilbao Spain
From: GUEST,MC Fat (at work)
Date: 09 Sep 10 - 05:35 AM

On a similar note my sproglet is now enconsed in Madrid is there anything happening there

Subject: RE: Folk music in Bilbao Spain
From: RamblinStu
Date: 12 Sep 10 - 07:27 AM

Thanks Zen, I check it out and report back.

Subject: RE: Folk music in Bilbao Spain
From: RamblinStu
Date: 25 Sep 10 - 06:16 PM

El Residence Cafe is a small cafe bar, I went on a Wednesday when they have "folk music". It was predominantly an Irish tunes session, played by very keen locals, who obviously have their set pieces they play each week, but one chap did sing The Wild Rover in Catalan at ninety miles an hour, very odd that.

They were a friendly bunch and most welcoming. It gets started at half nine and finishes at eleven, the bar is full and it does get hot, plus they have had complaints about the noise from locals so when the playing gets a bit raucous they close the door which increases the temperature somewhat.

Finally note that if anyone does plan to go El Residence Cafe, here, as in lots of other bars I visited in Bilbao, they do not have the same no smoking rules that we have to endure

Stuart Pendrill

Subject: RE: Folk music in Vitoria Gesteiz, and Pamplona
From: GUEST,Dilwyn
Date: 01 Apr 14 - 07:59 PM

thanks for the info on Bilbao. I plan to travel round Basque Country in May, and would be interested in knowing about sessions in Vitoria, Pamplona , to do some trad Welsh singing. did same in Galicia last year. Went well

hwyl/cheers

Subject: RE: Folk music in Bilbao Spain
From: Greg F.
Date: 02 Apr 14 - 03:08 PM

If you run into anyone that remembers Anastasio Uriarte, born in Bilbao ca. 1900 & emigrated to Brooklyn, NY tell them his grandson says hello & wishes them well.