Sound for town councils and festivals in Catalonia

We provide sound for any council or community event in Catalonia that needs voice, music or live bands, from an opening speech on the town hall balcony to a concert in the main square.

What sets a town festival apart from any other event is that the audience isn’t seated or controlled: people come, go and move around. So we place the sound with the whole square in mind, not just the front rows, and protect cables and structures in walkways.

• Town festivals (festes majors) and neighbourhood festivals
• Opening speeches, award ceremonies and civic events
• Concerts and open-air dances in the square
• Sant Joan, Carnival, Castanyada and traditional festivals
• Fairs, markets and sports events
• Events by local associations, parents’ associations and residents’ groups

Most festival sound services are processed as a minor contract, which under the Spanish Public Sector Contracts Act applies to services with an estimated value below €15,000, excluding VAT. Alquiaudio prepares the documents the file usually requires.

The legal reference is Law 9/2017 on Public Sector Contracts. Each council has its own procedures, so the most practical approach is to tell us what the finance department needs and we prepare it in the required format. We can talk you through it by phone if it is your first town festival as an officer or councillor.

We need one or two 230 V sockets on separate circuits near the stage, van access and the street-closure times.

If the square has no power, we can work with a generator, which must be suitable for audio to avoid hum. We also ask the council maintenance team to show us where cables can run and whether barriers are planned. With staging, we coordinate so the stage is level before the sound goes on; we explain it on stage and platform hire.