rom the very beginning, in 1966, we’ve been a festival for the people of Barcelona, not for tourists. We’re known to our community and to the music students here too,” says Joan Anton Cararach, artistic director of the Voll-Damm Barcelona Jazz Festival. His statement points to both a longstanding programming approach of mixing local and international artists, and a current survival strategy dealing with pandemic restrictions. Like many other annual festivals in Europe that continue to face the upside-downing impact of COVID, Barcelona has managed to soldier on while respecting shifting regulations and dwindling audiences, and it presented a robust schedule this past October and
