Street Beauty – Microguagua
Day 129
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr
The sun was setting on my last day in Barcelona and I’d been walking since breakfast, savoring every last drop of my time in this amazing city. Two weeks of minimal sleep and maximum eating, drinking and merriment were catching up with me though, and I felt myself hitting a big wall of tiredness.
Heading back to my hotel, I stumbled upon a group of musicians warming up for a street set. All seven spread out in a long line with their eclectic instruments and I was curious to see if the music measured up to their impressive visual impact. Within a few bars, I had my answer in the affirmative. During their five song set, you could literally feel and see the energy lift all around them, and they pulled a large crowd who were all jumping and dancing along.
A Barcelona based musical collective, Microguagua perform their lively reggae/jazz infused music to appreciative crowds throughout Spain. With members hailing mainly from South America, the group’s size has continued to grow up to its current seven members.
My camera battery died right after their first song, so you’ll just have to take it from me that their sound and energy continued through the entire set. Their infectiously joyful music brought me back to life (Barcelona has a habit of doing that) and I walked away elated and fired up for one last night of Barcelona magic.
