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Yesterday, the poster for a new edition of As Cores de Outono, a folk music festival that has been held in A Pobra do Brollón for six years, was presented. This year, the event will be on Saturday, September 14th and is headlined by the famous traditional music group, Milladoiro.
The festival is promoted by the A Pobra do Brollón City Council with the collaboration of the Lugo Provincial Council, through its Single Plan for cooperation with municipalities. The poster for what will be the sixth edition of the event was revealed this morning with representatives from both institutions present. The presentation ceremony was held in the center of A Pobra, in the Samugueiros recreational area, which is also the venue for this free festival, which has become a reference musical event in the Lugo autumn.
‘These six years show that it is a consolidated festival, with a number of followers who come to this wonderful natural space every year to enjoy concerts that represent our culture and language,’ declared the vice-president of the Lugo Provincial Council, Maite Ferreiro.
The mayor of A Pobra do Brollón, Jose Lois Maceda, commented on this: ‘This festival is a benchmark not only in the province of Lugo, but also in Galicia. It is a commitment that we make to economically boost our municipality through culture and tourism; a line in which we have been working for some time and in which we are currently immersed, for example with the concert cycle With Feet on the Terrace and support for the Castro de San Lourenzo project.’
The festival is held in the afternoon and evening. It starts at 7:30 pm with the family show ‘Concerto singular’, a musical and gestural comedy by the company Piscore, winner of the audience award at Festiclown 2018.
The concerts begin at 9:00 p.m. The musician from Ourense begins White Magin, with a show for family audiences. He will review his discography with which he is transforming children's music in Galician, creating songs that are enjoyed by young and old alike. After Magín, the actor and monologuer will speak Avelino Gonzalez, the presenter this year of As Cores do Outono, known for his television characters, such as Miñato in ‘Padre Casares’ (TVG). The emblematic Milladoiro, a group that needs no introduction, after more than three decades of experience in Galician folk music. The concerts end at Bouba's Tambourines, a group of young women from Pontraga (Tordoia, A Coruña) who this year represented Galicia at the Interceltique Festival in Lorient and who have been transmitting the legacy of the oldest singers and dancers in the area since 2007.
The festival is held in the Samugueiros recreational area, in the center of A Pobra do Brollón (see on Google Maps). There will be a bar, food and craft stalls on site.
For awareness, prevention and detection of sexist aggression, there will also be a purple point on site, run by the FEMforte association.
Ferreiro expressed his satisfaction with the program: ‘This activity is an example of how these investments in the Provincial Council's Single Plan are promoting cultural activities that call for the participation of many residents and also many people who come from outside.’.
The presentation event ended with an invitation from Maceda to come to A Pobra do Brollón on September 14: ‘We think it will be a reason for them to visit us and share these concerts with us, the residents of A Pobra; to experience together what Guimaralia is ultimately.’
