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Bob Dylan to perform 12 concerts in Spain in June

Iconic singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will perform 12 concerts in eight Spanish cities over the course of June 2023.

Published: 10 March 2023 12:59 CET
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US legend Bob Dylan will perform 12 concerts in Spain in June 2023. (Photo by FRED TANNEAU / AFP)

Dylan will tour Spain over the course of June as part of his Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour, music promoters Riff Music and Get In have announced.

His performances in Spain will be as follows, with two concerts planned in some cities:

Madrid, June 7th and 8th (Noches del Botánico)
Seville, June 10th and 11th (Fibes)
Granada, June 13th (Teatro del Generalife)
Alicante, June 15th (Plaza de Toros)
Huesca, June 17th (Plaza de Toros)
San Sebastián, June 19th and 20th (Auditorio Kursaal)
Logroño, June 21st (Palacio Deportes de La Rioja)
Barcelona, June 23rd and 24th (Gran Teatre Liceu)

Tickets for all concerts will go on sale on March 15th at 10am on riffmusic.es website.

The tour’s promoters have warned that mobile phones won’t be allowed inside venues, with organisers set to provide covers for concertgoers to put their devices in.

His performances will mostly be mostly focused on his newest album, launched in 2020 and going by the same name as his tour: Rough and Rowdy Ways.

So attendees will be lucky if he performs his all time classics “Like a rolling stone”, “Blowin’ in the wind’ or “All along the watchtower”.

Two of his lesser-known songs with a Spanish twist are “Boots of Spanish Leather” and “Spanish is the Loving Tongue”.

The last time Dylan was in Spain was in 2019, when he performed eight concerts in Valencia, Pamplona, Murcia and Seville.

Dylan, 81, was a major figure in popular culture during the 60s and is considered one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time.

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Why Spain’s Eurovision entry ‘Zorra’ is confusing Spain’s feminist movement

Spain's Prime Minister has come under fire from feminist groups for defending the country's Eurovision song 'Zorra', meaning "bitch" or "slut" in English. Other women claim it's the perfect chance to reshape the word's derogatory meaning.

Published: 8 February 2024 12:30 CET
Why Spain's Eurovision entry 'Zorra' is confusing Spain's feminist movement

Spain’s leftist government has defended the country’s entry for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest after it came under fire from feminist groups who said it “insults women”.

Spanish electro pop group Nebulossa’s song “Zorra” – a word that can be translated as “vixen” but is almost always used to mean “slut” or “bitch” – will represent Spain at the world’s biggest live music event.

It was picked by a mix of votes from a jury and televotes during a contest broadcast last Saturday night on public television TVE.

A video of the group performing the song — which includes the lyrics: “If I go out alone, I’m the slut. If I’m having fun, I’m the sluttiest” — has since been viewed 2.5 million times on the station’s YouTube channel .

“I have often been called a zorra. This song is a way to transform that word into something beautiful,” lead singer Maria Blas, 55, told TVE.

Other female artists in Spain’s music industry have also defended the song, saying it’s an opportunity to reshape the meaning zorra currently has and that it’s incomprehensible that a word that’s used so often in Spain has caused such an uproar. 

“Zorra now has another meaning, thanks for this Nebulossa,” tweeted Angy Fernández, one of the Benidorm Fest’s other contestants.

Interestingly, the masculine version of zorra – zorro (fox) – can also be used to refer to men, but in this case the connotation isn’t derogatory and rather denotes that a guy is cheeky or sly.

It’s a clear example of sexist language in Spanish and double standards that often arise. 

READ ALSO: What you need to know about the Spanish word zorra

However, many feminist groups have disagreed with this take, with some calling for Spain to pick another song to represent the country at Eurovision, which will be held in Sweden in May.

The song “insults women in a sexist way”, the Feminist Movement of Madrid collective said in a statement, adding it was “absurd” to argue that “insistently repeating” the word could “empower” women.

But Equality Minister Ana Redondo García called it a “fun song, which breaks stereotypes”.

Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, a self-declared feminist, also weighed in, telling private television La Sexta he liked the song.

“Feminism is not only fair, it can be fun, and this type of provocation must come from culture,” he added.

The European Broadcasting Union, which organises Eurovision, said it had concluded that “Zorra” would not have to undergo any lyric changes and was eligible to participate in the contest since “there are many interpretations of the title of the song”.

What has been decided is that the song’s title and usage of zorra will be translated as vixen, not bitch or slut.

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