BBK Bilbao Music Legends Fest, Bilbao BBK Live, Bilbao Blues Festival… for yet another summer, Bilbao is hosting these major music events, which bring together tens of thousands of people. In fact, if we take into account the figures from last year’s editions of these festivals, these three events can add up to almost 200,000 people.
BBK Bilbao Music Legends Fest
This festival takes place on 23rd and 24th June at the Bilbao Arena. This year it celebrates its sixth edition, with big international and local names, such as Chris Isaak, who has a career spanning more than three decades and thirteen studio albums, or the former lead guitarist of the hard rock and heavy metal band Scorpions, Uli Jon Roth. Not forgetting the also veterans The Cult, Canned Heat, Nikki Hill, Nikki Lane and Luke Wislow-King.
As for the Basque representation, the Basque rock band Willis Drummond, Lorelei Green, Sua, and The Daltonics, will be performing at the BBK Bilbao Music Legends Fest.
Bilbao BBK Live
Bilbao BBK Live has its central location in Kobetamendi, and is held on the 6th, 7th and 8th of July, although it has many activities also taking place during those days in other parts of the city.
Awarded the prize for Best Large Format Festival at this year’s Iberian Festival Awards, its line-up features a large number of bands and artists of all styles: Florence + The Machine, Arctic Monkeys, Pavement and Phoenix, among others, without forgetting The Chemical Brothers, Love of Lesbian, Amaia, Delaporte, Idles, The Blaze…
Over the years, Bilbao BBK Live has established itself as one of the most prestigious festivals in Europe.
Bilbao Blues Festival
Also in July, but at the end of the month, comes the second edition of the Bilbao Blues Festival (28th-30th July), a free festival with the stage located in the Arenal venue in Bilbao.
Shakura S’Aida, Tia Carroll, The Original Blues Brothers Band, Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra, Ghalia Volt and Vasti Jackson and the Mississippi Trinity, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, The Cinelli Brothers, Bette Smith, The Big Flyers, Koko-Jean and The Tonics and Los Mambo Jambo Arkestra will take to the stage.
In addition, the festival will award blues legend Rick Estrin (California, 1949), vocalist and harmonica player, with the II Bilbao Blues Festival Award.
If you’re coming to Bilbao, then enjoy its red & white essence!
If you are going to attend any of these three festivals, don’t hesitate to take the opportunity to visit Bilbao… and its red & white essence. Refuel in San Mamés itself thanks to the sports bar Geuria and its extensive menu of sandwiches, burgers, pizzas, salads… Another option is to go to La Campa de los Ingleses (which, by the way, offers a delicious brunch at weekends) or, if you prefer, enjoy the best Bizkaian cuisine from chef Fernando Canales by booking a table at the San Mames Jatetxea restaurant.
You can also delve into the heart of the red & white team at the AC Museoa, made up of more than 1,000 original objects and videos that will immerse you in the essence of the red & white team and which also allows you to take the San Mames Tour to get to know the inside of the Cathedral of football.
This is a unique way to find out what Athletic Club is all about and learn about its history.Book your visit to the Athletic Club Museum now.
And if you not only want to experience the red & white essence, but also show it off, remember that you can find up to four Athletic Club shops where you can buy all kinds of products related to the red & white team. The main one, located between gates 0 and 26 in the San Mames stadium itself; the one located in Alameda Rekalde, 44; the one located in Mazarredo, 65; and the one in the Max Center Shopping Centre.
In all of them you will find a wide range of items such asflags, t-shirts, txapelas, caps, scarves…
