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Life 2026 "outdoors"

Isidre Roset i Juan vilanova i la geltrú - 09/06/26

La Masia d'en Cabanyes hosts for the twelfth time VIDA, a cultural experience that takes place in the natural environment, gardens, pine forests and the large esplanade that surround the unique manor house in the style of Andrea Palladio's Venetian villas. In the first days of July, Vilanova i la Geltrú becomes the nerve center of the independent music movement.

Since 2014, VIDA has provided musical nourishment with special dedication to emerging artists such as Rosalia, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Benjamin Clementine, Rigoberta Bandini, Maria Arnal, Father John Misty, Shame or Fontaines DC, among many others.

The philosophy of VIDA is contradictory and alternative, based on its motto “This is not a Festival”, which distances itself from the concept of massification and commercial product that most festivals provoke, breathe and encourage. VIDA is committed to a decentralized concept of culture, following in the footsteps of Faraday (2004–2013), held in Vilanova, a port and seafaring city, head of the Garraf region, halfway between Tarragona and Barcelona.

The participation of visual artists and designers of scenic spaces gives a playful and surprising air, integrated into the natural elements: paths and groves typical of the surroundings of the manor house, which during the rest of the year is the Romanticism Interpretation Center, headquarters of the Regional Council and one of the most important cultural facilities in the city, in addition to picnics with public barbecues where children's gatherings and birthdays can be celebrated.

Children are also a sector that has a dedicated space within VIDA: this is the Niu, which, as the word denotes, is this nursery where little artists can relax by creating cardboard instruments, eating fruit skewers or listening to stories and songs while they hear the sounds of the concerts that take place on the two large stages: La Masia and Estrella Damm, alternating headliners who this year are Fatboy Slim, Guitarricadelafuente, Amaia, Aldous Harding, Ralphie Choo, Saint Etienne, Maria Arnal and Charlotte Cardin.

One of the best-kept secrets of this NoFestival VIDA is the Saturday morning at La Tintorera, a solarium hidden between the rocks of the port's breakwater, facing the beach and livened up with live music from some of the survivors of the nights of dancing and debauchery. But there are other secrets to discover: the food trucks, the market stalls, the sponsor stands, the bars and, above all, the cave, the boat and the cabin.

More than 200 years ago, the Cabanyes family built this palace on the outskirts of Vilanova i la Geltrú. They were wine merchants and among their children stands out Manuel, a romantic poet who was a precursor of the Catalan Renaixença, although he was fluent in Spanish. Another important resident of this house was Alexandre de Cabanyes, the last of the modernist painters who captured in his paintings the plein air atmosphere of the Vilanova i la Geltrú beach, still without a port, and with sailboats spreading their nets in the sun to dry them in the wind of the marina.

In memory of these artists, today VIDA proposes to imagine a better world in a harmonious environment and with music as the integrating language of all the trends to come. A unique experience in an environment full of history and all the present to #imagine.