Paul is born in San Sebastián in 1979. With a superior level education in piano jazz, blues was and still is his great passion. His first contact with this genre was through the british rhythm & blues bands of the 60's. he has been performing since he was 15 and nowadays he is totally inmersed in the pianistic tradition of blues, mastering styles like the "stride" or the "boogie woogie". In 2011 he published his first solo record "tracks" a CD with piano and voice with the label Gaztelupeko Hotsak.

Alongside his band he has participated in different blues festivals for five consecutive years, he has performed in the prestigious Festival de Jazz de San Sebastián. In the summer of 2007 the band also published their first record. 

Amongst his influences there are figures such as Alan Price, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roosevelt Sykes, Memphis Slim, Otis Spann, Sunnyland Slim, Dr John, Professor Longhair or James Booker

All thought his already long tragectory, Paul San Martín has collaborated with artists of great relevancy like Nico Wayne Toussaint, Otis Grand, Gerry Hundt, Lluís Coloma, James Armstrong, Ñaco Goñi, Slam Allen, Sax Gordon, Chris Ruest or the legend of blues, Billy Boy Arnold. In 2013, Paul edited, again with the company Gaztelupeko Hotsak, a work in piano and voice named “Paul’s Mood”, a new pianistic inmersion in the different styles of blues. 

In 2023 he was a winner, with the band Noa & The Hell Drinkers of the European Blues Challenge taken place in Chorzów (Poland).

Paul comes directly from San Sebastián to take part in the MEAM's cycle of Fridays Blues & Boogie Woogie piano meeting.

A pianist from Barcelona with classical education, Sister Marion (Miriam Aparicio) is seduced by afro-american music with roots. Her first steps in the piano blues are alongside the pianists Lluís Coloma and Julio Lobos.

Years later she becomes a pianist, singer and director of her own gospel group Masoulfield which many reputable names of the musical scene go through. She has been a pianist in Tota Blues Band with whom she has participated in many national festivals and she has also become the pianist of Big Mama Montse, with whom they perform a repertoire of the great divas of blues in an acoustic setting that has taken them to many festivals and performances through Spain. She is also part, as a pianist and singer, of the female trio Womblues alongside Big Mama and Sweet Marta, a band formed only by women.  

XI Fridays Blues & Boogie-Woogie Piano Meeting with: PAUL SAN MARTÍN & SISTER MARION

• Paul San Martin, piano, voice.
• Sister Marion, piano, voice.

FAQS

• All tickets include access to the exhibitions, the concert and a beer, courtesy of Estrella Damm. You must attend between 5:00 p.m. and 5:50 p.m. to take your Damm!
•  Access to the concert hall with drinks is not allowed.
•  If there are no tickets available on the website, they can be purchased at the museum box office depending on capacity availability. In this case, it is preferable to book in advance by calling 933195693 or sending an email to taquillas@meam.es
• The locations have a number assigned according to the order of reservations. It will not be possible to make any change of location once the seats have been assigned.
•  Access to the concert hall will be from 17:50 to 18:00. Once the concert has started, you will not be able to access the room.
•  The exhibition can be visited both before and after the concert, bearing in mind that the museum closes at 20:00.
•  The tour of the exhibitions lasts approximately 45 minutes.
•  It will be enough to have the voucher or reservation on the mobile and not print it.
•  The museum reserves the right to cancel the unpaid reservation 5 minutes before the start of the concert. For this reason, we recommend showing up at the box office 30 minutes in advance. 
• In the case of tickets purchased in advance: After 6:00 p.m. it will not be possible to opt for a refund. If the user of the tickets has not communicated, before the concert, the delay or impossibility of attendance: these may be assigned to another user after 6:05 p.m.