Ode to Roger Mas

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On the threshold of seventh heaven, ceremonious and sensible, yet you immediately run to hide among worldly joy, wild and reckless. You rise like a solemn prophet unafraid to make friends with creatures of hell. You wear humor as a shield, and espadrilles to keep your feet light and grounded. Hope is more rhetorical than convincing, and yet you do not give up proclaiming it. You sing of love and all that happens "skirting the perimeter". The years go by and you are still here, giant of Solsonès, provoking a smile with a joke, as if the intention were to lessen the impact you cause with your performance. You know the long game, Roger Mas , that you summon 2,000 people to marvel at the integral of the two albums with the Cobla Sant Jordi City of Barcelona. And at the Teatre Grec, the same stage where on July 2, 2022 you celebrated 25 years of artistic career with one of the best shows in the history of the Grec Festival. It made sense, therefore, that the festival itself should now host the concert of the complete works for cobla.