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November 6, 2024
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Local music. II November folk

How can we not sing if we have a throat? How can we not make music if we can use our hands and feet? How can we not dance if our body asks us to? We sing and dance to the rain, to the fire, to the harvest, to births, to death, to love, to work…

The origin of music is uncertain, but as old as we are; we need music and it is present in the essence of our communities.

This second edition of "Músicas de cerca" is a tribute to these roots musics, to their musicians and to the informants, those elderly people who, like human libraries, store, preserve and transmit those sounds of yesterday so that they can be heard today and so that they are possible tomorrow. Thanks to all of them.

Let the musicians come and let the music play!


  • From Peña Labra to the Arribes

Concert of psaltery, rebec, percussion and voices, with David Pérez and Ruth Domínguez

David and Ruth join forces to offer us in this concert a constant dialogue between the musical tradition of their places of origin, Cantabria and Zamora. Hence the title of the show, a musical journey between Peñalabra, a mountain that crowns the Polaciones Valley in the southwest of Cantabria, and the Arribes del Duero, where the lands of Zamora meet neighbouring Portugal.

The concert is a journey through the songs and rituals associated with the annual cycle and the life cycle of people in traditional societies: New Year rituals and seasonal changes; songs of round, work and dance linked to the summer period; wedding songs; jilas, spinners and ballads; lullabies and songs for the dead...

This is a show that brings together the traditions of both places in order to find similarities within the diversity of the musical and ritual traditions of each territory.

The repertoire is presented through a discourse that aims to frame each theme within the rite and function that it fulfilled in the traditional societies in which it was collected.

The instrumentation for the interpretation of the repertoire is diverse: rebec, tambourine, square tambourine, psaltery, small percussion, bagpipes and, above all, voice.

Day: November 6th
Location: Library Auditorium
Time: 19:30 h

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  • Postal address Biblioteca de Castilla y León - Plaza de la Trinidad, 2. municipality of Valladolid . NaN. Valladolid