Cancios de chigre / tavern songs
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 2:02 pm
http://www.lne.es/secciones/noticia.jsp ... mplar=1014
Here's the link to LNE's article on yesterday's massive singing event at Gijón's main square "Plaza Mayor". The City of Gijón has been hosting a summer cider festival for several years now and for the last 3 years this festival includes a massive sing-along at 9 p.m. Hundreds of songbooks are given out and people crowd together to sing popular songs, lead by the choir "Orfeón Gijonés". The square was packed! We sang a selection of Asturian songs, from the miners' anthem "En el Pozu Maria Luisa" to rural "El Molineru" and even a couple of Latin American Boleros.
The best about this year's event, however, was the performance by El Che de Cabaños - in my opinion the best singer of Asturian toná that has come our way in the last 50 years. I'm still in rapture over this modest little man's voice.
Here's the link to LNE's article on yesterday's massive singing event at Gijón's main square "Plaza Mayor". The City of Gijón has been hosting a summer cider festival for several years now and for the last 3 years this festival includes a massive sing-along at 9 p.m. Hundreds of songbooks are given out and people crowd together to sing popular songs, lead by the choir "Orfeón Gijonés". The square was packed! We sang a selection of Asturian songs, from the miners' anthem "En el Pozu Maria Luisa" to rural "El Molineru" and even a couple of Latin American Boleros.
The best about this year's event, however, was the performance by El Che de Cabaños - in my opinion the best singer of Asturian toná that has come our way in the last 50 years. I'm still in rapture over this modest little man's voice.