Festivals this week (16–22 November): Monkey Week, Calçofest, the Festival de Cádiz and jazz from Chris Potter and Paquito D'Rivera

The third week of November belongs to Monkey Week. The showcase festival returns to El Puerto de Santa María from Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 with more than a hundred acts, and around it there is a week of festivals that are almost all indoors: a marathon of Catalan-language music in Valls, the Festival de Cádiz in its final stretch, three nights of blues in Gipuzkoa and a jazz route that repeats names from city to city.

This is the festival calendar from Monday 16 to Sunday 22 November, with the times, venues and prices published by each festival and its official ticket sales. The previous week is in our guide to 9–15 November, and the whole month in our guide to November festivals.

Monkey Week (El Puerto de Santa María, 19–21)

The Monkey Week SON Estrella Galicia website now splits its line-up by day, something that had still not been published at the end of October. This is how each day looks:

• Thursday 19: a short night, with 19 names, including Fillas de Cassandra, Lorena Álvarez, 1111, Las Nietas del Charli, Pablo y los Ciervos Dorados and Penny & The Pits.
• Friday 20: the day with the most well-known names. Playing are Nacho Vegas, María Terremoto, Mujeres, Mala Gestión, Los Nastys, Steve Wynn & Chris Cacavas, Sedientos de Cumbia, Cave Story, Carmen Lancho and Congolese band Fulu Miziki, among more than forty acts.
• Saturday 21: the longest day, with Catupecu Machu, Blaya, Parquesvr, Amor Líquido, CERVATANA, Lisasinson and Estrellas del Rap Nacional.

Set times by artist are not yet on the website. According to the DICE sales page, doors open at 20:30, entry is for over-18s with ID and prices start at €27.81, the price of the weekend pass for under-25s. There are no single-day tickets: when we went through the full Monkey Week line-up, the three-day pass cost €111.24 and the Friday and Saturday pass €94.56. The wristband does not guarantee a place at every concert. Venues and how to get there are in the Monkey Week listing.

Saturday 21: Calçofest in Valls and the Festival de Cádiz

Calçofest (Valls, Saturday 21). Thirteen hours of Catalan-language music under a marquee on the Esplanada del Fornàs, with no clashes: Maria Jaume opens at 17:00, followed by Els Amics de les Arts (18:10), Els Pets (19:35), Figa Flawas (21:10), who end their tour there, The Tyets (22:45) and 31 FAM (00:20), until 5:30. On 6 November general admission cost €48 on Enterticket, with 70% of capacity sold, and the public calçotada at midday is paid for separately. Full set times, the free bus and entry rules are in our Calçofest guide.

Festival de Cádiz - Música Española (until Monday 23). The festival celebrating the 150th anniversary of Manuel de Falla's birth is in its final week. The biggest draws are the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía with the Accademia del Piacere, on Tuesday 17 at 21:00, and Rodrigo Cuevas with "Al pie del llar", on Saturday 21 at 21:00, both at the Gran Teatro Falla. María Rodés presents "Lo que me pasa" on Friday 20 at 19:00 at the Teatro del Títere La Tía Norica, the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla plays Vivaldi on Thursday 19 and Lucía Rey Quartet closes the festival's jazz on Sunday 22 at 18:00. Most tickets cost between €10 and €20. The day-by-day programme is in our Festival de Cádiz guide.

Jazz: Madrid, Zaragoza, Palencia, Huelva and the towns of Sevilla

Several jazz festivals share musicians this week, so you can often choose your city:

• Chris Potter Trio: Madrid on Thursday 19 (JAZZMADRID, Teatro Fernán Gómez, 20:00, €38) and Zaragoza on Friday 20 (Auditorio, 21:00, €41).
• Paquito D'Rivera: Zaragoza on Saturday 21 (21:00, €43, as a double bill) and Madrid on Sunday 22 (20:00, €40).

JAZZMADRID rounds off the week at the Fernán Gómez with Shai Maestro on Tuesday 17, Bombino on Wednesday 18, the CMS Trio of Javier Colina, Marc Miralta and Perico Sambeat on Friday 20 and Moisés P. Sánchez with Marco Mezquida on Saturday 21; in addition, the Andrea Motis Guitar Trio plays on Friday 20 at 22:00 at the Teatro Monumental (JAZZMADRID guide). The Festival de Jazz de Zaragoza closes on Sunday 22 with Michael Mayo (Zaragoza programme).

Jazz Palencia Festival closes its theatre series at the Teatro Ortega with Billy Cobham Quintet on Friday 20 and Cucurucho Valdés with Javier Colina on Saturday 21; the festival website still has both on sale, with tickets from €25 to €30 according to our Jazz Palencia guide. In Huelva, the Festival Iberoamericano de Jazz ends on Friday 20 at the Casa Colón with Al Di Meola, from €39, after Magos Herrera the night before (Huelva programme).

For those on a tight budget, the Festival de Jazz en la Provincia de Sevilla takes Martha High with the Julián Maeso Organ Trío to Utrera (Thursday 19), Mairena del Aljarafe (Friday 20) and La Rinconada (Saturday 21), with €3 tickets in almost every town (programme by town). In Lleida, JazzTardor has Lluís Coloma and Blue Lou Marini on Saturday 21 at the Cafè del Teatre (JazzTardor programme).

Blues Hotsak and Aitzina Folk

Blues Hotsak (Soraluze, until Sunday 22). The Gipuzkoa festival packs its highlights into three consecutive nights at the Herriko Antzokia, always at 19:00: Dr. Feelgood on Friday 20, DeRobert & The Half-Truths on Saturday 21 and Barrence Whitfield & MFC Chicken on Sunday 22. Each concert costs €15.36 including fees and there is no pass. On Sunday there is also free street blues with The Ubangi Stomp at 12:30 and La Perra Blanco at 14:00 (Blues Hotsak programme).

Aitzina Folk (Vitoria-Gasteiz). The concert by Irish band Dervish, on Friday 20 at Arkabia, is sold out. That leaves Saturday 21, with the trio Saltaire at the same venue at 20:00 for €20, and on Wednesday 18 there is an open, free folk session at Hala Bedi Taberna (latest Aitzina Folk news).

Sources: official Monkey Week website (day-by-day line-up) and its DICE sales page, checked on 9 November 2026; official Jazz Palencia website, checked on 9 November 2026; and ModoFestival's guides to each festival, compiled from their official websites and ticket sales: Calçofest (Enterticket, 6 November), Festival de Cádiz (official programme), JAZZMADRID (festival website), Festival de Jazz de Zaragoza (Ibercaja ticket sales, 6 November), Festival Iberoamericano de Jazz de Huelva, Diputación de Sevilla (3 November), JazzTardor, Blues Hotsak and Aitzina Folk.