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Declared of National Tourist Interest and Cultural Interest, the Feast of Barranda crews reconvene on Sunday January 25 rounds gangs and from different points of the Spanish geography.
The mayor of Caravaca de la Cruz, Domingo Aranda, Minister of Education, Culture and Universities, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, and the president of the Aguilanderos Barranda, Carlos Salcedo, Murcia presented today at the XXXVII edition of the Festival of Gangs , which will involve 13 rounds and crews, including 7 of the Region of Murcia and other 6 vila, Albacete, Malaga and Valencia.
"The Feast of the crews is established as a true national leader in the field of music of oral tradition, something that is evident every last Sunday of January, when the people of Barranda becomes the meeting point for thousands of people ", as highlighted by the Mayor during the presentation.
The Feast of the crews will begin on the morning of Jan. 25 with Mass sung by the Brotherhood of Blessed Souls Patino.
Animeros of Caravaca de la Cruz (Murcia), Gang of Aledo (Murcia), Gang Patio (Murcia), Ronda Algazara Candeleda (vila), Gang Cuesta de Gos (Murcia): Then welcome to the participating crews will take , Round Motilleja (Albacete), Gang Campo San Juan, El Sabinar and Calar de la Santa (Murcia), Gang Huebras (Albacete), Gang Brials (Valencia), Gang of Puri (Murcia), Panda Verdiales 1st Forestry (Malaga), Ronda de los Llanos (Albacete) and as hosts, Aguilanderos Barranda.
More activities for the study and preservation of oral tradition
Following the pattern of recent years, the Feast of the crews will be wrapped in the days before by the Conference on Culture of Oral Tradition, the "Barranda Folk" festival and Farmers Market Traditions.
The Conference on Culture of Oral Tradition will start the evening of 23 January with an exhibition of the doctoral thesis of Julio Guilln entitled 'The Brotherhood of Souls of Caravaca de la Cruz: music, revival and ethnicity in the Sierra de Segura' and photographic exhibition 'Party Time' Joaquin Zamora and Toms Garca Martnez at the Museum of Ethnic Music.
It also starts Barranda Folk starring "Stolen Notes".
On Saturday the conference will continue with the conferences of Antonio Viao, 'Orality, floclore and school';
Federico Martin with 'Ana Mara Matute Reminder: alphabet to the stuttering child';
and Gustavo Martn and 'The House of Words', who also propose afternoon 'narrate is to escape the tyranny of truth'.
Moreover, Chana Teatro La submit 'Del Lazarillo de Tormes' and there will be a visit and tour of the Museum of Ethnic Music Barranda.
The day will conclude with performances by Kepa Junkera & sorginak and Hexacorde & Vanesa Muela, within the festival 'Barranda Folk'.
Also, both Saturday and Sunday, all day, is hosting Farmers Market Traditions workshops and sale and tasting of typical gastronomic products of the area.
Coinciding with the feast of the Candelaria, patron saint of Barranda, the last Sunday of January is the festival of the crews, the day given appointment pandas, rounds and crews music southeastern Spanish oral tradition.
The party was declared of National Tourist Interest in January 2011. His current configuration of 1979, at the conclusion of which is organized spontaneously in this population was maintained and passed from father to son;
the interpretation of folk music accompanied by traditional dances of the earth.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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