Concert for Peace

The presentation by Mikel Laboa at Zurriola beach took place last night, he shared the stage with Bob Dylan and with Catalonyan band Macaco.

I don't think too many members of the fascist oriented Partido Popular nor its satellite groups like AVT and Foro de Ermua were present at the event.

Here you have the note by EITb:

Donostia-San Sebastian: Music in a good cause

07/11/2006

On Tuesday 11th July, tens of thousands of people will be able to enjoy a free concert offered by the North American singer songwriter Bob Dylan in one of Donostia-San Sebastian's beaches. The place for this recital is La Zurriola Beach, near the Kursaal Congress Palace. It is an open and wide space, so there will be no capacity limits preventing anybody from listening to the music of this legendary singer and guitarist.

This concert in Donostia-San Sebastian is included in Bob Dylan's European tour, but the show prepared for Gipuzkoa's capital city will have a marked pacifist nature. Nevertheless, any political message will be eluded, as the artist has requested.

The concert, organised with the collaboration of Donostia-San Sebastian's Town Council, the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and private entities, will be one of the musical milestones of the city's summer and will be a brilliant prelude to the 2006 Jazz Festival, starting on 21st July in this same settings.

Free Show

Bob Dylan, who will start his performance at 9 pm, will not be alone on La Zurriola Beach stage. His concert also offers the participation of the Basque singer songwriter Mikel Laboa, who will perform around 7.45 pm, and by the Catalonian group Macaco, which will sing after the North American artist.

The concert's stage will be located on one side of La Zurriola Beach, near the Kursaal Palace, so that more than 30,000 people will be able to enjoy this show completely free, although there will be tiers with 2,380 paid seats. The organisation will install three screens, one located in the sound control area and the other two on both sides of the stage. These three screens will be offering images of the show, but the last two will not be working during Dylan's performance, as he has requested.

Also, the one by Yahoo News:

Bob Dylan sings for Basque peace

Tue Jul 11, 6:32 PM ET

Tens of thousands of music lovers spread out along the beach near the Spanish city of San Sebastian to listen to US legend Bob Dylan perform in support of the peace process for the Basque region.

For an hour and a half, the 65-year-old folk-rock musician reached into his arsenal of timeless classics, including "Mr. Tambourine Man" to regale the crowds, mostly young, gathered on Zurriola beach.

Dylan made no speech, but the event's organizers had said earlier his concert would be remembered as "a milestone in the path of peace".

"The idea of a concert for peace in the Basque Country is interesting, espeically at this time of hope," said Iban Urbiea, a 30-year-old teacher. "But I'm really here to hear Bob Dylan, the myth," he added.

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