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- Pancho
Alvarez, is a guitarist with an extensive trajectory within folk and traditional
Galician music.
- Carlos Beceiro, folk music:
- Berrogüetto,
traditional Galician music, with original compositions and experimental mixing.
(in Galician)
- Brath,
"new" folk music from Vigo. (in Galician)
- Xosé
Manuel Budiño, "gaitero". (in Galician)
- Emilio
Cao, was one of the originators of the Celtic sound in Galicia, and he
was also the first to pick up the harp again as an instrument within the traditional
music in Spain.
- Centro
Gallego, a pipe band with 30 musicians. (in French)
- Chouteira, plays anything from the rich Galician
musical tradition, turning the traditional into contemporary. In their repertoire,
instrumental and vocal pieces are combined to recreate the feeling and atmosphere
of the traditional Galician popular festivals:
- Dhais,
folk-jazz music. (in Galician)
- Maite Dono, a new "voice" in the Galician
folk music, a singer who has a very personal way of interpreting roots music:
- Durindaina, a traditional Galician band, trying
to bring something original in the European folk music.
- Fía Na Roca, their stylistic diversity,
along with the timbrical richness showed in the different compositions, represents
one of the main identity symbols of the band:
- Iriadona,
folk music. (in Galician)
- Leilía,
traditional music. (in Galician)
- Leixapren,
folk music. (in Galician)
- Louleada,
traditional "gaita" music from Vigo. (in Galician)
- Luar
na Lubre, mix new and traditional themes in his music. (in Galician)
- Matto
Congrio, Galician folk-rock. (in Galician)
- Milladoiro, play traditional Galician tunes,
arranged to different instruments. They play as well compositions of their
own and tunes of Breton, Scottish and Irish origin:
- Muxicas,
started as traditional group, moving during the years, to folk. (in Galician)
- Na Lúa, has been producing music focusing
on two fronts: reinterpretation of traditional music songs, with the usual
references to Iberia and the Celts, and composition of new tracks in which
traditional elements are blended with other forms of expression from different
cultures:
- Noitarega,
traditional music. (in Galician)
- Carlos Nuñez, playing style and school
is a landmark in Galicia's piping. Playing bagpipe since he was eight years
old, he learned not only from Galician bagpipers. His works include fruitful
and frequent collaboration with artists like The Chieftains, Sinead O'Connor
and many others:
- Grupo
de Gaitas "O Arco", Galician bagpipe traditional players. (in Spanish)
- Os Cempés, offers traditional pieces
as well as compositions of their own, all of them dressed with a fine musical
taste. They clearly show that a complete and well-defined musical atmosphere
can be achieved without the need of neither complicated electronical apparatus
nor lots of people hanging around.
- Pallamallada,
traditional Galician music from XVII to beginning of the XX century. (in
Galician)
- Porque
Trobar, music and songs from the XII and XIII centuries. (in French)
- Raiceiras,
traditional music. (in Galician)
- Treixadura,
traditional music from Pontevedra. (in Galician)
- Uxía,
folk music. (in Galician)
- Violia,
traditional music. (in Galician)
- Xeque Mate,
Galician folk music meets chamber music.
- Xiradela,
traditional vocal music sung by women. (in Galician)
- Xistra de Coruxo, they work in two different
way: on one hand, they act as a classic Galician group, on the other hand,
they want to "save" those melodies played in Galiza during this century, that
came from foreign countries: rumbas, sambas and habaneras among others:
Xocaloma,
folk music from La Coruña. (in Galician)
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