La Musgana in concert at TSPAC
Article published on Monday, Oct. 15, 2007 |
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TARPON SPRINGS - Get ready for a night of traditional music from Spain as La Musgana, direct from Madrid, performs on Friday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m., at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center.
Tickets are $22; $20 for center members and students. For tickets and information, call 727-942-5605 or visit www.tarponarts.org. The performing arts center is at 324 Pine St., Tarpon Springs.
Spain's La Musgaña comes to America on tour with their first album in nearly a decade, Temas Profanos. The quartet plays the sinuous, syncopated music of Central Spain where Moroccans and Celts, Europeans and Africans have all left their mark. The music reflects a fusion of styles started many centuries ago.
Based in Madrid, La Musgaña (pronounced Lah Moose-gahn-ya) performs on both traditional and contemporary instruments. The music on their new album Temas Profanos (Mad River Records) reflects a soundtrack to daily life and life-changing events in rural Spain. There are courting songs and wedding dances, village celebrations and lullabies, harvest songs and even a prayer for rain.
Founded nearly two decades ago, La Musgaña features the talents of original members Jaime Muñoz (flutes, pipes) and Carlos Beceiro (guitar, hurdy-gurdy), and two of Spain’s brilliant younger musicians, Jorge Arribas on accordion and Diego Galáz on violin.
As the band expresses it, “this music we play, we feel very close to it. Our attitude is that we want to enjoy the music. We are not trying to present it like a window in the anthropological museum. You can find this music still alive at weddings, parties or whatever in the countryside. We don't want to call it ‘sounds from another time’... this is our music!”
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Article published on Monday, Oct. 15, 2007
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