Thursday 20th August saw the Riba Rocks team talking to Glòria Fandos, host of the ‘PROGRAMA 205 DE POESIA PER LA PAU’ on RÀDIO RÀPITA.

Talking about the team’s objectives, their future goals for this ‘eco festival’ and life and work on the off-grid finca year round.

Riba Rocks is extremely grateful to Glòria Fandos for her continued support and enthusiasm towards this grass roots festival.

¿De quien fue la idea de organizar estos festivales?…
Mi marido y yo, somos artistas y queremos crear una cosa magica en ‘La Vall’!

¿Qué os motivó hacerlo?
Nos gusta mucho la musica en directo y la ambiente y la natura de la finca.

¿Con que objetivo?…
El primer objectivo es para la integracion entre la gente del pueblo y otros personas que vienen aqui de otros paises.
Entonces, para promover los musicos, los DJs y los artistas locales y internacionales.
La finca está completamente ‘fuera de red’ – el festival esta ecologico – los lavabos sin agua, envases biodegradables. El sustenibilidad del evento esta muy importante para el medio ambiente.

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We are super excited to bring you the Solar WIFI zone at this year’s Riba Rocks festival. In the same place, you will be able to charge your mobile phone while you check mail, browse and upload all those awesome festival photos!!

All this completely FREE!!

Thanks to Absorb Solar, working together to bring you this fantastic service.

Upload festival photos instantly!!

#rr15 #DanceInTheDust #Sun #Solar

OUT NOW – Single day tickets for Riba Rocks 2015!

We have just announced the full line up for Riba Rocks 2015 which includes daytime activities, DJ sessions, full Great Beyond Records Main Stage agenda plus special closing party!

Friday 4th September – single day ticket for just 15 euros with DJ ‘on the rocks’, Daff Cafe breakfast, art exhibitions, daytime DJs, poetry, unplugged ‘Couch Covers’ on Delta Vista… then on the main stage: Adria Cid, Troubadour’s Garden, A Lovely War, Audio Subscene, Ali Ingle… DJs Filtah, The Good Sound Night, Pedrols Sanchez and Tarri & Sami… phew!

Saturday 5th September – single day ticket for just 20 euros with Daff Cafe crafternoon, daytime DJs, art workshop, permaculture activity, poetry, unplugged ‘Couch Covers’ on Delta Vista… then on the main stage: Alex Hulme, Mogli, Louis Romegoux, Mog Stanley, Luke Cusato, Linqae, Empathy Test, Charm Offensive… DJs Jonty, Doctor Feelgood, Sarah Main and Marc Flood... wow!

Sunday 6th September – single day ticket for only 10 euros with a day of Catalan culture, poetry, art, music by Andreu Carranza (Lo Gitano Blanc), Paella picnic with DJ sessions, Special Sunday Sunset DJ Session by Joe Brook, through to DJ closing party… are we still standing??!!

General admission tickets for the whole weekend are still available until 31st August for only 30 euros – what a bargain!!

We cannot wait to see you in the valley in September. Bring It On! Dance In The Dust!

Back by popular demand… Damien (affectionately known as ‘Crepe Dude’) from ‘La Parisienne Creperia’ will be back! With crepes, crepes and more crepes – have a look at the recipes here. There is nothing as good as a crepe at 4 o’clock in the morning to keep you going on that dancefloor!

#BringOnTheCrepes…

We are thrilled to announce…

‘Inspired Earth’ is coming to La Vall for this year’s Riba Rocks festival. Bringing their Fair Trade clothing and accessories, La Vall with be filled with a colourful variety of ethnic, handmade clothing, homeware and accessories, bringing beautiful shopping to the festival doorstep.

For more information on the Inspired Earth products, their shop locations and to just give them a ‘like’ click here.

We are thrilled to announce…

Locally brewed Craft Beer will be available at this year’s Riba Rocks festival! Rafa and Jordi from the Vic Brewery (Vic, Catalunya) will be serving you their artisan ales throughout the weekend.

The Riba Rocks team have been fortunate enough to taste test these thirst-quenching ales and we are very much looking forward to September!! Click here to read more about the Vic Brewery.

Go and give the Vic Brewery a like on facebook here.
You can also follow them on twitter here!

At this year’s Riba Rocks, you will not only be able to listen to some superb bands and djs from all over the world. You will also be treated to a series of contemporary art exhibitions.

The first, installed in the Daff Cafe, presents Adam Pinson’s work, which is something you will want to stand and stare at for hours on end, admiring the unique talent of the artist, reading the content and concept and admiring the absolute commitment by the artist to these all consuming works of art. Click here to view more of Pinson’s work.

“A selection of drawings rendered using Colour Pencils by Adam Pinson, maker
of things & stuff, an illustrator of nothing in particular…”

We promise there will be no plastic plates or forks at this year’s Riba Rocks. Everything you use on the Great Beyond Records Main Stage will be COMPOSTABLE… we have sourced compostable plates and forks from Enviropack in the hope to make the festival as sustainable as we possibly can…

Discarded plates and forks on the Main Stage will be placed into separate containers and allowed to rot down and then it will be mixed in with the ‘deposits’ in the compost toilets and spread on the garden!

We are a small, intimate festival. Still our goal is to ‘Leave No Trace’ on the valley each year and to respect the beautiful wildlife therein. Help us to do that by separating your waste during your stay! Thanks so much. The RR Team.

We are absolutely thrilled to bring you the ‘Riba Rocks Festival Shuttle Bus’…

• Visit the picturesque village of Riba-roja d’Ebre
• Have a swim at the public pool
• Take a stroll around the ancient streets
• Take a dip in the cool River Ebro
• A leisurely kayak or pedalo
• …or maybe you’re staying in the village and need to travel to the festival each day?

…the reliable and low cost shuttle service at this year’s Riba Rocks festival is the answer!

The Riba Rocks Festival Shuttle Bus will be running from the festival site to the village (via the train station) and back throughout the weekend including the very early hours of the morning!

There will be full details of the Shuttle Bus timetable at the train station, in the village and at the Riba Rocks festival site.

The village of Riba-roja d’Ebre – Photography by Dave Turley Photography

This year at Riba Rocks, we welcome to The Valley Anna Gurney from the Boodaville Project. Anna will be talking to us about permaculture ideas and philosophies as well as running a daytime workshop. We are really excited for you all to meet Anna and we feel this will be an invaluable exercise for our festival community.

The Boodaville Project, in the Matarranya district of Spain started in 2008 with the purchase of 1.5 hectares of olive terraces and pine forests in a stunning, tranquil location. Over the years, many people in an ever-growing international community have become involved and we’ve learned about, and applied, permaculture design during the development of the site.

The long term goal is to create a working example of permaculture principles in action, including food production, comfortable accommodation for guests and plenty of space for workshops and courses. In a nutshell, permaculture means that we will plan carefully to design hyper-efficient systems which make the most of natural processes, use few external resources, generate very little waste and are considerate of the local and global community. It will be a constantly evolving project as we move as close as possible to being truly sustainable while enabling others to change their own lifestyles and opening minds to alternative ways of seeing the world and relating to it.

Here’s dates for a few of the upcoming Boodaville events:
July 24-26 2015 : Weekend Retreat / Retiro – Yoga / Naturaleza / Relaxation
October 3 – 10 : Workcamp – Applied Permaculture Design / Campo de Trabajo – Permacultura