AGENDA
Welcome party
Iguana -20h - 00h30
March 11, 2020
La Iguana is already a tradition for us, the best place to start with 4 non-stoping nights with many hours of live music and DJ's. A cozy bistrot with a wonderful wooden floor at 5 minutes walk from the main train station in town, Sants Estació. There you can have a cold drink or enjoy a delicious sandwich or some tapas, we love the cook, mmmhhhhhh! There are also some sofas for laying down if your trip has been tiring
Friday party
20:00 -2:00 Casino de l'Aliança del Poblenou
March 12, 2020
Miss Mikey May Band (Israel-Barcelona) and Velvet Cruise (France)
Casino de l'Aliança del Poblenou is one of the best theaters and dance halls in Europe. Founded in 1869 and restored in 1929, this awesome venue maintains the aesthetics of the time. This venue is also very well located, in the cozy Rambla del Poblenou, at Poblenou neighborhood, one of the favourite for the locals, at only 200 mt. from the beach and with many restaurants around and a metro station nearby. The floating parquet, its boxes, its stage... are prepared to receive the dancers from all around the world, shine your dancing shoes and get ready to transport yourself in time. Undoubtedly the best dance floor in town for our special Cocoa's 5th edition!
Outdoor dancing Blues
12h -15h Parc de la Ciutadella - Glorieta
March 14, 2020
Come to one of the most iconic and oldest dances in town, and open air dance at the
charming and beautiful Parc de la Ciutadella, probably the best and most famous park
in town and where the barcelonians have gone for a walk on Sundays for more than a
century. March is clearly the start of the spring in Barcelona, come to dance, chat with
friends and enjoy the weather!
*The dance will be cancelled if the weather is horrible (yes, sometimes, not many, the weather awful in
Barcelona too!)grega detalles del evento aquí:
Chocolate hands massage
March 13, 2020
Not one or two, but three concepts in 1.
Cocoa Blues Exchange is blues + chocolate and now we add the massage.
Come, we will explain how to make a chocolate massage to another person , and also recive it, using different types of chocolate, to the rhythm of the blues.
Pleasure for your senses....
Saturday night
19:30 - 2:00 - Casino de l'Aliança del Poblenou
March 13, 2020
Keith Dunn & Balta Bordoy Quartet and Revolution Band (Valencia)
Casino de l'Aliança del Poblenou is one of the best theaters and dance halls in Europe. Founded in 1869 and restored in 1929, this awesome venue maintains the aesthetics of the time. This venue is also very well located, in the cozy Rambla del Poblenou, at Poblenou neighborhood, one of the favourite for the locals, at only 200 mt. from the beach and with many restaurants around and a metro station nearby. The floating parquet, its boxes, its stage... are prepared to receive the dancers from all around the world, shine your dancing shoes and get ready to transport yourself in time. Undoubtedly the best dance floor in town for our special Cocoa's 5th edition!
Chocolate Experience
March 14, 2020
The old Simón Coll workshop, with its genuine antique machines, will start up to show you how the process of making chocolate has changed from its origins until today. Using a visual montage, these machines will come to life and interact with master chocolatiers, who will show us how they worked more than 100 years ago in this factory.
Chocolate tasting
Put your senses to the test. You will be able to taste chocolate exactly as it comes out of our production line and we will show you the best way to sample it. This is something that you will only be able to experience if you come to the Simón Coll factory.
Cava, calçots & music
10:45 meeting 11h - Departure Diagonal Jardinets de Gracia
March 14, 2020
Don’t miss this epic trio exclusively for Full Pass holders!
The trip begins on Sunday morning at Diagonal Jardinets de Gracia close metro Diagonal. We’ll have a bus waiting for taking us to Sant Sadurni d’Anoia- the capital of cava- seated right by the beautiful Montserrat Mountain (about 45 min from Barcelona).
For lunch, we’ll stop at Canals y Domingo, a small handmade cava producer. Now, properly hungry, we’ll enjoy a very tradicional Catalan lunch “Calçotada” (vegetarian options available). Delicious food, cava in abundance and, for desert, live blues.
.A bus will take us back to Barcelona new stop in Estació de Sants (AVE) and Jardinets de Gracia close metro Diagonal.
Outdoor dancing
12h -15h Parc de la Ciutadella - Glorieta
March 14, 2020
12h -13:30h Swing
13:30h – 15h Blues
Come to one of the most iconic and oldest dances in town, and open air dance at the
charming and beautiful Parc de la Ciutadella, probably the best and most famous park
in town and where the barcelonians have gone for a walk on Sundays for more than a
century. March is clearly the start of the spring in Barcelona, come to dance, chat with
friends and enjoy the weather!
*The dance will be cancelled if the weather is horrible (yes, sometimes, not many, the weather awful in
Barcelona too!)
Picnic
15h Parc de la Ciutadella
March 14, 2020
After dancing at the park stay with your friends for a Picnic on the grass as the locals
do. Bring your own food and drinks and something easy to share. We’ll provide the
music. Stay for siesta too if you want to ;-) The perfect combination for the festival’s
last day!
*This activity will be cancelled if the weather is horrible (yes, sometimes, not many, the weather is awful
in Barcelona too!)
Sunday closing concert at La Nau
20:30h - 1:30
March 14, 2020
After a period of reforms, remodelling and technical equipment updates, La Nau opens its doors in November 2017 as a unique music creation space in Barcelona in the upcoming neighbourhood of Poblenou.
Our fully equipped concert venue offers a diaphanous space of 160m2 fully equipped with a wide stage of 4x8m and the best quality rider: the new line array system LINA from Meyer, moving head lighting from Martin, Pro Tools to record the concert, and more than 40 microphones to amplify concerts in professional quality including studio quality mics. Artists like Serrat, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Midlake and Chicuelo have come to rehearse with their bands to prepare for tours or festivals.