Kazum presents:
XABIER DIAZ & ADUFEIRAS DE SALITRE
Entry Requirements: 18+
Musician, composer, folklore researcher, singer and expert exponent of the Pandeireta Galega (Galician tambourine), Xabier Diaz is a well-known figure on the Galician music scene. He was lead singer with award-winning folk revivalists Berrogüetto and has collaborated with many other leading artists.
His latest project allies his tambourine with the adufe – a square frame-drum of Moorish origin used in Portugal. Indeed, not one but eleven adufes, wielded by the eleven women percussionists and singers of the Adufeiras de Salitre ensemble, augmented by Gutier Alvarez on hurdy-gurdy and Javier Alvarez on accordion.
Over two years of work went into the award-wining album, Mr Tambourine Man, in which time-honoured popular songs from Galician villages are given a joyous reinterpretation through Diaz’s gently soulful singing and the powerfully engaging ensemble performances of the Adufeiras.
From northern Spain, this is contemporary, living folk song as you've never seen before.
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