Robert Finley — 12 November 2026, La [2] de Apolo (Barcelona)

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The singer from Bernice, Louisiana, who released his first record at sixty-two plays the only Catalan date on a three-stop Spanish run

Robert Finley plays La [2] de Apolo on Thursday 12 November. Tickets are €25 in advance and €30 on the door, and the show qualifies for Spain’s Bono Cultural Joven. Last Tour are promoting it.

The time can’t be given: both the venue listing and the ticketing site say “TBC” for doors and for stage time.

It’s the only Catalan date on a short Spanish run — the next night he’s at Andén 56 in Burgos, and on the 14th at Kuivi Almacenes in Oviedo. He had already been through Europe twice this year, France, the Netherlands and Germany in February and March, finishing in Berlin on 12 March, then Ireland and the UK in April and May, but Spain wasn’t on either leg.

Finley is from Bernice, Louisiana. He spent decades singing on the street and leading gospel groups, and didn’t release a first record, “Age Don’t Mean A Thing”, until 2016, at sixty-two. The following year Dan Auerbach signed him to his label, Easy Eye Sound, and has produced “Goin’ Platinum”, “Sharecropper’s Son” and “Black Bayou” (2023) since. There’s a later record the Apolo listing doesn’t mention: “Hallelujah! Don’t Let The Devil Fool Ya”, out on 10 October 2025, also with Auerbach and with gospel at its centre. Neither the venue nor the promoter says which of the two he’s touring.

The set list is easier to guess at. Across the 172 shows documented since 2017, the songs he has played most are “Medicine Woman” (46 times), “Get It While You Can” (43), “Sharecropper’s Son” and “Souled Out On You” (38 each) and “Make Me Feel Alright” (32). Finley sings with his sight largely gone: the venue listing counts it among the adversities he has come through, without saying how far it goes.

Text by Enric Vilaplana