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Every last Sunday of January, on the eve of the Candelaria, patron saint of Barranda, takes place in the village of Caravaca the Feast of the crews, a meeting in which he quotes pandas, rounds and music crews Southeast oral tradition given Spanish.
The festival has become one of the oldest of its kind and how many major cultural events are held in Spain, while retaining its purity because he has not lost its generational continuity or direct contact with the people.
Several generations live together in gangs, making something living tradition that is passed naturally from parents to children and grandchildren.
Its current configuration of 1979, at the conclusion of which, spontaneously, in this population was transmitted orally is organized.
A pioneer of the festival there will always recognize their intuition to create a stand that offer continuity and survival of these manifestations of rural culture, perhaps somewhat maligned in those years sometimes a misunderstanding developmentalism.
All municipalities of Caravaca since 1979 that have supported this event and contributed to its greatness, always by serving their organizers, Aguilanderos Barranda, custodians of this tradition and real drivers of this meeting.
Thanks to this institutional support, the Feast of Cuadrilllas has spread in many national media, television, radio and print media;
has achieved a promotion and massive diffusion, including its presence in the International Tourism Fair, FITUR, and has achieved the recognition of National Tourist Interest, statement came in 2011 and came to recognize the many festive, cultural, anthropological aspects , ethnographic, etc. surrounding this event.
The Murcia region has also played a major role in preserving the party, declaring in 2011 of cultural interest.
Also, before the years of severe economic crisis, with their help a breakthrough was achieved by expanding cultural activities that grew around the Feast of the crews, as the Study Days on the Culture of Oral Tradition or festival 'Barranda Folk', which each year appointment reference groups of folk music on the national scene are given.
One of the latest additions to the program of events was the Farmers Market Traditions, supplementing the big weekend of this hamlet.
We can not forget the very interesting Museum of Ethnic Music Barranda result of the commitment and initiative of the City of Caravaca de la Cruz and the Autonomous Region of Murcia, where most shows of musical instruments collected five continents and coming to recoder throughout the year what happens in this population the last Sunday in January.
Overcome the hardest years of the crisis, in which the Community ceased to subsidize and provide financial support to all regional parties for obvious reasons, the Minister of Culture, Noelia Arroyo, he has promoted this year by initiative and conviction own signature a collaboration agreement until the end of the legislature with Aguilanderos Barranda and support of major promotion promoted by the Ministry.
It is only fair to acknowledge the effort also in crisis years of the City of Caravaca to maintain the full program of events, when Murcia stopped coming from financial aid.
Each year, the council has pampered and protected this party because it has been aware that, in addition to having a decent preserve cultural values, is a strong economic boost to the catering sector across the Northwest Region during the day its conclusion, since the number of components of the gangs is added a significant number of visitors, several thousand people, who travel from all Murcia and surrounding provinces.
That is the mission of politicians, help to maintain and improve what sets the signs of collective identity and is a good for society, but seize it, not wanting to hijack what is born of the people and it belongs.
This has been done and hopefully it will be.
Source: PP Caravaca de la Cruz
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