Rumba Catalana in Barcelona?

Ahh, that's going to be complicated... there's no place in Barcelona these days with regular performances. You can catch the odd concert in some of the usual concert bars/halls, like Jamboree, El Molino even at Palau de la Música Catalana, among other... or you can dance to rumba at La Macarena or at Los Tarantos, albeit their music is not just rumba, but a mix of genres.

This is a curious thing we Catalans have with our "traditional" music here, much like sardana -the quintessential Catalan traditional music- or the romantic havaneres which together with rumba catalana they define what "typical Catalan music" would be, we only seem to enjoy them during heritage festivals, celebrated in many towns and cities along the year, but there's no demand for "concerts" as such outside these. This is not to say that, for example, you wouldn't find impromptu open-air concerts of sardanes many weekends, especially in more rural areas, where a "cobla" (band) will play and regular public will dance. In Barcelona, for example, on Sat evening (at 6ish) and Sun morning (at 11ish) -except in August- a cobla plays sardana music in front of the Cathedral, in the Old City. Video: http://bit.ly/2bZCUpK and details here http://guia.barcelona.cat/en/detall/sardanes-al-pla-de-la-seu-els-caps-de-setmana_96330202439.html

There's an annual rumba festival, La Diada de la Rumba Catalana -or used to be, not sure if this year is going to be as I read they have financial difficulties- http://infocatalonia.eu/w/rHtXW which is celebrated at the end of November or beginning of December: http://www.diadadelarumba.com/

Rumba Catalana is sung in Catalan and also in Spanish, and it's a genre developed by the gipsy (Romani) community established in Catalonia in the 1950s -especially in the neighbourhoods of Hostafrancs and in Gràcia in Barcelona where many of the famous figures were born, like Peret, the King of Rumba. These days, there are a number of music groups that have "modernised" the rumba, such as "Som caliu" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLqZJ8TD2OU or "Getrudis" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZtO87Og5MI) -these two sing in Catalan.

A website dedicated to rumba where you can find lots of info is: http://www.calarumba.com/artistas/ also here https://www.last.fm/tag/rumba+catalana/artists

For more info on Catalan traditional music see previous posts of mine, sardana https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/spain/next-week-in-barcelona-on-very-short-notice and for a more general view https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/spain/flamenco-in-barcelona-4d46a4dc-f72d-44ef-a0cb-cdc81c4dc44c

Flamenco, albeit we have a large community migrated from the South of Spain and an annual festival is celebrated in town, La Feria de Sevilla -much like the one in Seville-, is not generally considered "local traditional music" here in Catalonia.