On Friday 11 and Saturday 12 September, a new edition of the reference folk music festival in the south of Lugo, As Cores do Outono, arrives, organized by the City Council of A Pobra do Brollón with the support of the culture area of the Vice-Presidency of the Provincial Council of Lugo.
This afternoon, Mayor Xosé Lois Maceda and councilors Marián Martínez and Agapito Rodríguez, together with deputy Iria Castro, presented the poster at the festival venue, the recreational area of Samugueiros, thus revealing the groups for this twelfth edition: Balteira, Ialma and Galega de Bailables. On Saturday there will be concerts and on Friday, a show for all audiences by the local dancer Alba de Vales.
‘Once again we are committed to our roots music with proposals that draw on Galician oral tradition,’ says Martínez, councilor for Culture of A Pobra do Brollón. ‘These are three concerts of very high musical quality that will fill Samugueiros with dance.’
Deputy Iria Castro also highlighted As Cores do Outono's support for high-level talent through cultural programming and the commitment to bringing new proposals for traditional Galician music to the public.
Tradition from here and there
The line-up that will open Saturday's concerts, Balteira, unites four great masters of traditional music in a project that recovers the Galician oral repertoire, incorporating contemporary arrangements but respecting the structure and emotion of the traditional pieces.
The songs that have always enlivened the party and the melodies for dancing are the axis around which their concerts revolve, maintaining the spirit of the foliada from the technical and interpretative quality through voices, percussions, accordion and winds.
The second group to perform in The Colors of Autumn will be Ialma, formed by three tambourine players and singers accompanied by three Galician-Belgian musicians. On the occasion of the celebration of 25 years of career, which included seven albums and concerts all over the world, Ialma will bring their show Tribute. This is an exciting and festive concert that honors Galician roots, memory and resistance, driven by the multicultural energy of Brussels.
The musical proposals end in a big way with Galician Dance, a formation of seven virtuosos, most of them with roots in A Pobra do Brollón. Based on voices, percussion, winds and hurdy-gurdy, they will give a concert full of energy with muiñeiras, jotas and other rhythms designed to get all Samugueiros on their feet.
The three concerts will be on Saturday the 12th starting at 9:00 p.m. In the concert area, located next to the Saa River in the Samugueiros recreational area, there will also be craft and food stalls, open from 8:00 p.m.
A 21st century playgirl
The program of this twelfth edition of As Cores do Outono is completed with a show on Friday the 11th at 8:30 p.m. at the Casa da Cultura ‘Olga Novo’. The actress and showgirl from Ourense Dawn of the Valleys, stage name of Alba Grande, will bring to A Pobra do Brollón a proposal for all audiences, A village playhouse. Combining theater and music, it will delve into village memories and stories inspired by the blind man's romances and traditional tales and songs.
All programming is free to enter. Details can be found on the website (councilofprobadrobrollon.gal) and social networks (Facebook @apobradobrrollon and Instagram @guimaralia) of the Municipality of A Pobra do Brollón.
