Grenade will host September 3 to 5 the first edition of Neoramaa new platform powered by Musical Youth of Spain on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. Forty concerts spread across 18 stages, around 500 young participants and a program that combines live shows, training and debate to focus on new generations of musicians.
Neorama It was born with the aim of being a showcase for emerging artists from different territories and genres, and that is where a good part of its interest lies. Around 500 young people participate in a program that brings together 350 artists and ranges from pop punk to indie rock, electronic, folk, jazz and classical music, drawing an unusual overview of the talent that is beginning to make its way in different parts of the country.
Among the names to follow appears Julia Crywhich mixes urban music with Afro, flamenco and jazz influences and is preparing a new album after surpassing 4.5 million listens with its first songs, Alanawhich connects Galician tradition, electronic and pop and publishes this year a knowledge either Naked Evaan indie rock band from León that was the most voted Spanish group in the semifinals of Mad Cool Talent 2026. Along with them, Perimeter prepares his first pop punk album from Melilla, Blung From Ceuta he defends an alternative rock already reflected in his debut Run away and the Majorcans Pitxorines They continue to transfer the island’s popular songbook to new audiences. It will also have a presence Liceu BLAM Collectivea Catalan jazz and modern music proposal that will perform in the Plaza de los Aljibes and the Plaza de las Pasiegas. Its inclusion summarizes well one of the festival’s intentions: not to stick to a single scene or a single way of understanding the musical emergence. Diversity expands with Musikene Big Band and the chamber projects that emerged from the Andalusian Youth Orchestra, in addition to proposals such as Image Duo, Maconchand Project, Mühlfeld Ensemble either Echoes of London. The objective does not seem to be so much to build a conventional poster as to offer a broad overview of music that is still defining its place within the professional circuit.
This showcase nature is completed with the festival’s prizes, including a Audience Award in whose election attendees will be able to participate, and whose delivery will take place on Saturday the 5th in the Patio of the City Hall.
Also the spaces are part of the story. The festival will be dispersed through enclaves such as Generalife Theater, Plaza de los Aljibes, Plaza de las Pasiegas, Carmen de los Porcel, Torres Bermejas, Corral del Carbón or Rodríguez-Acosta Foundationintegrating the concerts in some of the most recognizable heritage settings in Granada. The Temple of the Starsnext to the Palace of Charles V, will also function as a Discovery point specifically dedicated to new proposals.
He Generalife It will concentrate two of the big events. The opening with JM World Orchestra and the Granada Opera Choirwithin the celebration of 75th anniversary of Musical Youth of Spainand the closing with SuperArta show directed by Oriol Saña that will bring together more than eighty artists with and without disabilities from the SIFU Foundation together with the Granada Youth Symphony Orchestra.
From stage to profession
But Neorama is not limited to putting musicians on stage. The festival dedicates an important part of its programming to a question that affects a good part of emerging careers: what happens between training and the real possibility of making a living from music.
Especially significant will be the table “Is the national and international circuit accessible to young talent?”in which Daniel Broncano, Soco Collado, Silvia Moreno Ferri, Ana Comesaña, Violeta Hernández and Rubén Gutiérrez will analyze how platforms, networks, streaming, festivals and record labels are transforming the circulation of works and what opportunities and barriers a new generation of artists finds to access these circuits. This debate will continue in meetings such as “From education to professionalization”with representatives from BIME, Musikene and Conservatori Liceu. The table will also have space “Women in music”which will analyze female representation, access to creative and technical positions and the presence of women in festivals, reviewing both the progress and the inequalities that still persist. For his part, “From algorithm to stage” It will focus on how artificial intelligence is entering composition, synthetic voices, production, mixing and live performance, in addition to the ethical, legal and artistic challenges that this coexistence between technology and human creativity opens up.
The program is completed with content on the Artist Statute, the new Artistic Education Law, musical mediation, inclusion and accessibility. These include the workshop “4 experiences, 4 experiences” from the Music for All Foundation and the presentation of EyeHarp, a digital instrument that allows you to perform music through the movement of your eyes.
Neorama Thus, it crosses two needs that do not always appear together in festivals dedicated to emerging talent: giving a stage to those who are starting out and offering tools so that they can continue occupying it later. All this in a free first edition, with prior reservation, that will turn Granada into a meeting point between new music, heritage and professional future for three days.
You have all the information, programming and ticket reservation in the Neorama Festival website.
