Xamfrà was founded in 2004 by l'ARC Taller de Música Fundació Privada, with the support of two foundations (Avina and Levi's), running workshops at the Institut Miquel Tarradell. The course starts with 16 participants and ends with 42.

Xamfrà ends the course with more than 80 participants, aged between 4 and 18 years old, coming from different countries: Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Santo Domingo, India, Pakistan, Romania, Uruguay, Algeria, Ecuador, the Philippines, Columbia, Equatorial Guinea, Morocco, Senegal, Nigeria, Cuba, England and Germany.

The number of students enrolled exceeds 130 and Xamfrà receives the 3rd Federico Mayor Zaragoza Prize from the Friends of UNESCO, as an example of good experiences of coexistence between cultures. The entities that participate in Xamfrà also diversify: Salvador Gavina Centre, Raval Social Foundation and Franja Joves.

There are now more than 170 students. We incorporate workshops with the Escó Foundation: music with mothers and babies and a women's choir.

We start a new singing and music workshop for young people. Xamfrà receives the National Education Award for projects of entities for the promotion of education, awarded by the Ministry of Education. Xamfrà participates in the Punto y Raya Junior Festival. We start up El Teler de Música, a social entrepreneurship initiative to promote and make music and community projects sustainable. It is a space for didactic resources and shared reflection for education professionals who use music as a pedagogical tool.

Xamfrà receives the Francesc Candel Prize (from the Carulla Foundation) and Ester Bonal, director, receives the Civic Action and Citizenship Prize, awarded by the same foundation. The orchestra workshop begins on Thursdays with cello, violin and clarinet students. A choreography and movement workshop for young people starts on Fridays.

We begin to run workshops during school hours at the Pere Vila School (music and movement in kindergarten, and orchestral ensemble in 4th, 5th and 6th grades) and after school hours at the Cal Maiol School (music and movement in kindergarten and ukulele in the initial cycle). At the same time, we coordinate the Educart pel Desenvolupament workshops at the Institut Miquel Tarradell, at the Mediterrània School and at the Mestre Morera School.

The Resist'art project wins the 25th November 2018 award for the prevention of gender violence, organised by Barcelona City Council. Resist'art becomes an integral project, made jointly with the group Las Anónimas, and in collaboration with various associations and entities of the neighbourhood and the city (Androna Cultura, Guné Foundation, Lloc de la dona, Diàlegs de dona, Escó Foundation...).

Xamfrà receives the Ciutat de Barcelona Education Award.

Enrolments have already exceeded 100 participants. The diversity of countries of origin of the participants, and workshops on offer, increase.

Xamfrà continues to grow and the number of registered members now exceeds 150. We inaugurate the premises in Carrer de les Tàpies (current location). Xamfrà is part of the Social Commission and the Culture Commission of the Tot Raval Foundation, which organises and boosts several projects linked to the neighbourhood and the District: participation in the Reading Network, Education Commission, Tot Raval Community and The Experts Project. Xamfrà is also a member of the Auditori Apropa programme of the Barcelona Auditorium.

More than 200 students are enrolled. We incorporate new workshops: traditional violin and ‘tarota’. The ‘Colla’ is formed with accordions, ‘flabiols’, tambourines, ‘tarotas’ and violins. We add a new workshop, carried out in collaboration with the Hospitalitat Foundation, for adults with intellectual disabilities. We participate in the project Cantamos el Mesías (La Caixa and Orquesta Sinfónica del Vallés) at the Palau de la Música and in the project Et Toca a TU (with the OBC) at the Auditori, together with the project Barrios en Solfa in Badalona Sur. La Colla de Xamfrà (a music and dance group for children and young people from the Raval neighbourhood of Barcelona) takes part in the St. Antoni and St. Jordi Festivals in the Raval.

The number of students continues to rise and now exceeds 300. Xamfrà is recognised with the Marta Mata Award (from the Rosa Sensat Association) and the Tatiana Sisquella Award (from Diari Ara). Cello workshops start in groups of three students, and a new improvisation workshop for young people also starts.

We start the Basket Beat workshop. We continue to work with our links with open centres in order to respond to the needs of their children and youth groups. Xamfrà coordinates the Educart workshops in Raval, Barceloneta and Ciutat Meridiana, as well as the theatre and emotions workshops in La Salut-Llefià in Badalona. Curricular diversification workshops continue at IES Miquel Tarradell and choir workshops at the Milà i Fontanals School.

The course begins with more than 450 participants in Xamfrà and, combining our intervention in the city, this figure expands to more than 800. Work begins with the foundations Sant Joan de Déu, Arrels, Diàlegs de Dona and Quatre Vents. We start a workshop with 3-year-old children and their families in the classroom. El Teler de Música, a social entrepreneurship project to help make Xamfrà sustainable and to contribute to the continuous training of music teachers, closes its financial year with a small profit, being sustainable for the first time. We coordinate, together with the Theatre Institute, a postgraduate course in social action and performing arts. L’'ARC Taller de Música Foundation wins the public tender to coordinate the EducArtS project in the neighbourhoods of Barcelona's Zona Nord.

We renew Xamfrà's graphic image and launch a new website. Xamfrà receives the Alícia prize in its reference as a Social Project, awarded by the Catalan Academy of Music. It also receives the JovEmrèn prize, awarded by the Sant Vicenç de Sarrià Cultural Centre Association, as an entrepreneurial idea led by young people. Finally, Xamfrà receives the Solidarity Prize 2019, awarded since 1987 by the Human Rights Institute of Catalonia for the solidarity work carried out by Xamfrà in favour of coexistence and social cohesion, vindicating diversity through cultural expressions. Xamfrà, along with other entities in Spain, receives the 1st Solidarity Challenge Award from the Botín Foundation for the IncluARTE project, a project for the inclusion and empowerment of children through art.