For the Thursday–Sunday window of October 8–11, the useful Marula Café story lands across its first three nights: a Thursday jam session, a Friday DJ bill and a Saturday vinyl pairing. Each date points toward a different use of the room, yet all share a commitment to rhythm as the organising principle. At Marula Cafe, on Escudellers 49 in the Gothic Quarter, the venue describes itself as active since 2011 and presents a broad musical field including funk, disco, soul, jazz, Afrobeat, hip-hop, salsa, cumbia, Latin jazz and rumba. That range is unusually legible in a single weekend sequence.[1][5][6]

The room’s booking identity comes into focus through format as much as genre. Its own practical guide separates live concerts from late DJ sessions on Fridays and Saturdays, while also treating jams as a distinct recurring part of the calendar. The arrangement gives the venue a particular pace: musicians and improvisation can occupy the evening, then selectors take the floor into the early hours. Marula Café’s programme for this week makes that handoff concrete, with Thursday’s Hit Me Funk! Jam Session leading into Friday’s Kusuri + Yulie and Saturday’s Much Boogaloo + Blanquito dj.[1][5][6]

Thursday, October 8: a recurring jam as the room’s anchor

Hit Me Funk! Jam Session begins at 22:00 on Thursday, October 8. It is the most revealing event of the three because the jam format puts Marula Café’s stated preference for funk, soul, R&B and improvisation into practice. The venue identifies Hit Me Funk as its Thursday jam and describes the session as centred on funk, soul and R&B, with Latin Afro Jazz elements in the mix. A weekly event can become background scenery in a crowded calendar; here it reads as the structural anchor, giving musicians and listeners a regular place to meet before the weekend’s club sessions arrive.[2][5][6]

That anchor also explains the room’s scale of attention. Marula Café presents itself as an intimate club where the stage and dance floor sit in close relationship, and its information page makes the point plainly: this is a club for dancing, with no table-reservation service. Thursday’s session therefore suits readers looking for a live, participant-facing entry into the venue’s week. The important detail is openness of form: a jam allows the night’s musical conversation to remain responsive, while its funk-and-soul frame keeps the event tied to the room’s larger musical vocabulary.[1][5]

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Friday and Saturday: DJs extend the same record-led conversation

At 23:59 on Friday, October 9, Kusuri and Yulie take over. Marula Café describes Barcelona-based DJ and producer Kusuri as working from electronic music, house and hip-hop roots, while also drawing on funk, disco, dancehall and Latin sounds. The venue also identifies Yulie as a resident DJ and producer. That pairing makes Friday a natural translation of Thursday’s groove language into DJ practice: house structure, sampling, club energy and a wider set of Black-music references can sit in the same frame without turning the bill into a genre checklist.[3][5]

Saturday, October 10 follows at 23:59 with Much Boogaloo and Blanquito dj. The listing specifies a 100 percent vinyl session and characterises Much Boogaloo’s set through boogie, disco and nu-disco. Blanquito dj arrives via Tropikal Rockers, with a background in Barcelona, Granada and Córdoba rooms and a selection described through funk, Latin music, disco and house. After the improvisational Thursday and the cross-current Friday pairing, Saturday gives Marula Café a more archival, tactile emphasis: records, dance-floor forms and selectors whose references closely mirror the venue’s published genre map.[4][1]

Practical route through the weekend

Start with Hit Me Funk! Jam Session at 22:00 on Thursday, October 8; return at 23:59 on Friday for Kusuri + Yulie; then finish with Much Boogaloo + Blanquito dj at 23:59 on Saturday, October 10. Marula Café lists Friday and Saturday concert hours before midnight, followed by DJ sessions through 06:00, and advises readers to consult its agenda because schedules can change. Recheck Marula Café’s official event pages for door policy, ticket details, set times and any last-minute updates before travelling.[2][3][4][5]

Also this week

Sources

  1. La Sala — Marula Café
  2. Hit Me Funk! Jam Session — Marula Café
  3. Kusuri + Yulie — Marula Café
  4. Much Boogaloo + Blanquito dj — Marula Café
  5. Info — Marula Café
  6. Març al Marula Café — Agenda Cultural Gencat