Bridging Celtic and Iberian traditions

At our new venue, we now have a lot more space and a lot more time (until 1am) to make noise. To make sure we can fill that space and time I will from now on emphasize a bit more what we’ve been doing anyway, namely the fact that we welcome music from other Celtic and from other Iberian traditions, essentially celebrating Galician folk as the crossroads between these two overlapping cultural worlds. We have already got Asturian and Portuguese songs, a Basque tune and a Scottish tune in our repertoire, and we have had amazing moments when participants shared other things with us including Welsh songs and Irish tunes.

 

To capitalise on this I have changed the description of the session (Galician Session in the sidebar) and the subheading. I might also use terms like interceltic and celtic connections (both of which are the names of very popular festivals) to describe the sessions. All of this doesn’t actually change the range of the music we have been playing anyway, but may encourage a few more people to come who might have otherwise felt excluded, thinking they don’t know enough about Galician music. So if this applies to you and you have any Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Manx, Cornish or Breton music to share or anything from the Iberian peninsula, do come and share what you’ve got. It’s an open session after all.

See you on Tuesday!