AFERS: Júlia Colom + Gaia Banfi

A monthly Sala Apolo cycle that brings to the CINC stage a local artist, Júlia Colom, and a European act, Gaia Banfi, two close musical universes arriving from different backgrounds.

AFERS is the monthly concert cycle at Sala Apolo that places a local artist on the stage of the CINC alongside a European counterpart. In this edition, Júlia Colom and Gaia Banfi share a musical universe that nonetheless emerges from different backgrounds. The format is intimate, which encourages a direct closeness between performers and audience.

Júlia Colom, from Valldemossa, blends jazz, Mediterranean song, bolero and traditional Majorcan music. Trained in jazz singing at the Taller de Músics, in 2019 she travelled through villages across Mallorca seeking singers of the new generation who could teach her old melodies. That process gave rise to the documentary Sempre dijous, by Joan Porcel, winner of the Festival Inèdit 2020. She has been a backing singer on the Clamor tour by Maria Arnal and Marcel Bagés and is currently writing the songs for her first album.

Gaia Banfi is a singer-songwriter and producer born in Milan, daughter of keyboardist Baffo Banfi. She studied singing, classical guitar and violin before graduating in Jazz Singing from the Bologna Conservatory. Her music moves between pop, singer-songwriter material and electronica, with airy vocals intertwined with distorted sounds. Her album La Maccaia (2025) has taken her to Trans Musicales in Rennes, ESNS in Groningen and MENT in Ljubljana, and she has recorded a session for KEXP.