On Saturday, September 27, we celebrated the eleventh edition of the As Cores do Outono festival in A Pobra do Brollón, organized by the City Council with the financial support of the Culture Area of the Vice Presidency of the Provincial Council of Lugo.
This year the event will bring to the Samugueiros recreational area three very powerful musical proposals that mix tradition and innovation: Carmela, Lideira and Xabier Díaz & Adufeiras do Salitre.
The proposals of the Carmela and Lideira trios are smaller in components but no less intense.
Carmela é a musical project that bases its repertoire on Galician oral tradition, understanding tradition as a flexible entity that adapts to the current musical context through sounds that travel from percussion to electronic references. A unique proposal in both its musical and extra-musical discourse, led by Carme López (voice and percussion), together with Camille Hedouin (electronics and vocals) and Sara Méndez (saxophone).
Leader, on the other hand, is a trio formed by Sara Méndez (soprano saxophone), Gabi Reboredo (voice and percussion) and Lois Prado (tenor saxophone and synthesizer). Lideira began her journey at a Foliada Guímara and now she is entertaining the torreiros with danceable pieces throughout the country. Based on the music of oral tradition, they seek a personal sound through the mixture of wind instruments, hand percussion, voice and other fantasies.
The concerts will begin at 9:00 p.m. in the Samugueiros recreational area, where there will also be a bar and food stalls, local products and crafts.
To warm up the engines, at 6:30 p.m. a traditional dance workshop for all levels by Gabi Reboredo. It is necessary to register in advance by WhatsApp on the phone 650624828.
As a preview of the festival, on Friday the 26th at 20:00 at the Casa da Cultura ‘Olga Novo’, a ethnomusicologist Xulia Feixoo will present her book-CD Concha do Canizo. This tambourine that I play… in which it addresses the oral transmission practices carried out by the pandeiro in the Land of Frieiras, in the southwest of the province of Ourense. Specifically, by one of the great schools of pandeiro players in Galicia, that of Concha do Canizo. The common thread is the life story of Concha herself, built from interviews and musical recordings, hitherto unpublished, that were made over a period of sixty years (1952-2012). The book contains photographs, dancegrams, musical and linguistic transcriptions and information on uses and customs in traditional society of high anthropological, historical, ethnographic and philological value.
