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Barcelona is celebrating until June 28 the Pride Barcelona 09. This event is the Mediterranean’s most important Gay Pride with more than 25 associations, 70 businesses and the LGBT community.

It is a free and nonprofit making celebration which shows the best the city has to offer. Until Sunday you can enjoy the city of Barcelona and all the diversity that Catalonia offers at an event which has prepared all sorts of activities, including film, culture, family, entertainment, sport and debates. The event will end with a parade full of colour and a great free party. The setting for this parade will be Barcelona’s Sepulveda street and the Maria Cristina Avenue at the foot of the Palau Nacional Museum. This is the venue for the institution´s  exhibition and the great Pride Barcelona closing party.

Extracted from the Press Release of pridebarcelona.org.

On Saturday, July 4th. in La Alhondiga, province of Segovia, Spain, you have the option to see Davide Salvado during this year´s annual Segovia Folk Festival.

He is a total artist, able to fill the stage with his charismatic presence. He retrieves the most nude tradition and put it in front of us, without any superfluous dressings, but with a careful and personal interpretation.

After years accompaning Xose Manuel Budiño worldwide, and, in parallel, making an intimate work from the Galician, Portuguese and Castilian traditional repertoire, Davide has developed a show where his voice, plenty of nuances and character, subtle and powerful, shines and convinces.

Davide also plays traditional percussion instruments, like Galician pandeireta (tambourine), Peñaparda’s pandero cuadrado (square frame drum from that Castilian-Leonese village), or the Portuguese adufe (also an square frame drum). In this occasion, Davide will be accompanied by Gonzalo Goas.

Information provided by MapaMundi.

Until tomorrow you can enjoy the Gran Premio Cinzano de Catalunya de MotoGP (Motorcycling World Championship) at the Montmelo circuit, north of Barcelona.

The Circuit has seventeen grandstands, of which three are covered. As high temperatures with over 30º C are forecasted for this weekend, it is advisable to be prepared accordingly.

Tomorrow´s race of the Catalan Grand Prix can be also followed on the 20 giant screens, viewable from almost any corner of the public areas. Children under 5 years old have free access over the weekend. Motorbikes and cars have free parking space, anyhow it is advised to access the circuit by taking a bus or train.

During yesterday´s free practice, Valentino Rossi on his Yahama proved to be the fastest in the Moto GP category, while in 250 cc Alex Debon was ahead of the actual championship leader Alvaro Bautista. Third was Hiroshi Aoyama.

In the 125 cc series Julian Simon finished first, while Sergio Gadea and Nicolas Terol were second and third Sergio Gadea hot on his heels, 5 tenths of a second behind. Nicolas Terol.

This Sunday, the Australian rock group AC/DC will be back in Barcelona for the second time in just over 2 months.

The ‘Black Ice World Tour’ concert will be this time at the Olympic Stadium, after the first one was in the Sant Jordi Hall. The European tour will end on June 30 in Glasgow after about 50 concerts.

Tickets are already sold out to see this band which is in business for more than 30 years.  

During this weekend, the 30th International swimming competition - with aprox. 500 swimmers from all over the world - is held at the Swimming Club in Sant Andreu, Barcelona. 

World record holders will attend the competition, such as Yulia Efinova, Frederick Bousquet and Anastasia Zueva. You can also see world champions like Estefan Nystrand, Liam Tancock, Yana Martinova or Nycolav Skvortscy and Yana Martinova, apart from  Olympic medalists such as Sara Nordenstam, Milorad Cavic, Amaury Leveaux and Eamon Sullivan.

This coming weekend, June 6 and 7, 200 National and International professionals will demonstrate their skills during the several sports competitions and events at the Parc del Forum, next to the sea in Barcelona, Spain. Some of the best professionals will take part of this 2 day event where the World Rolling Series (WRS) will collaborate.

Sports include skateboard, BMX, FMX; inline skating, longboard, wakeboard and jibbing. There will also be non-sport activities such as urban art exhibitions and DJ sessions.

After a great Broadway success, this Argentinian show created by Andrew Kay and David Vigo back in 2005, has finally come to Barcelona.

Until June 14 you can see at the Victoria Theatre (Teatre Victoria), located between Plaza Espanya and the Rambla, a combination of pure tango dance and music, performed by ten professional dancers, four musicians and a singer.