{"id":33410,"date":"2025-07-07T10:21:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/selected-the-four-bands-to-participate-in-the-final-of-the-ii-volotea-blues-challenge\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:57:46","slug":"selected-the-four-bands-to-participate-in-the-final-of-the-ii-volotea-blues-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/selected-the-four-bands-to-participate-in-the-final-of-the-ii-volotea-blues-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected the four bands to participate in the final of the II Volotea Blues Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The four bands that will participate in the second edition of the Volotea Blues Challenge, which will serve as the kick-off of the Bilbao Blues Festival, are already known. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are: <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p><strong>BigBlack Rhino (Girona)<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p><strong>Jon\u00e1s Molina Band (Madrid)<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p><strong>Mar\u00eda Carbonell Blues Mood (Valencia) <\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p><strong>Sirjo Cocchi &amp; Balta Bordoy &#8211; The Blues Way (Barcelona). <\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each of the bands will perform for 30 minutes on July 24 from 7.30 pm. An expert jury will be responsible for deciding which of them will be the state representative at the European Blues Challenge 2026, to be held in Katowice (Poland) from 16 to 18 April. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winner of the last edition of the Volotea Blues Challenge was T\u00f2fol Mart\u00ednez Blues Band, from Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"a2a5a7\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #a2a5a7;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2combo_logos_bbf-jpg-jpg.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33405 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2combo_logos_bbf-jpg-jpg.avif 800w, https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2combo_logos_bbf-jpg-768x159.avif 768w, https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2combo_logos_bbf-jpg-480x100.avif 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four bands that will participate in the second edition of the Volotea Blues Challenge, which will serve as the kick-off of the Bilbao Blues Festival, are already known. These are: BigBlack Rhino (Girona) Jon\u00e1s Molina Band (Madrid) Mar\u00eda Carbonell Blues Mood (Valencia) Sirjo Cocchi &amp; Balta Bordoy &#8211; The Blues Way (Barcelona). Each of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[158,146,162],"tags":[185,184],"class_list":["post-33410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues-challenge-en","category-featured","category-iv-edition-bbf-2025","tag-bbf-2025-en","tag-volotea-blues-challenge-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33411,"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33410\/revisions\/33411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}