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The crews are singing The Aljorra (23/01/2012)

The musical tradition of the Campo de Cartagena is more alive than ever.

Proof of this was the seventeenth Meeting of gang Aljorra held last Saturday at the civic center of the deputation.

Involved five bands from source to lick, Isla Plana, La Aljorra, Mills and Tallante Marfagones.

The event was organized by gangs Aljorra with the assistance of the City Neighborhood Council, the neighborhood association and the cultural association of women.

Field crews Cartagena, like the rest of the Southeast Region and Spanish, born in parishes with a tax collection order. They started asking for bonuses to cover the cost of churches and chapels, and masses of the Holy Souls .

They went from house to house and participating in religious celebrations.

This purpose has now lost and the groups are held for recreational and cultural activities.

Its origin seems to lie in the late fifteenth and development occurs throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

In the past few years 60 and 70 missing a large number of bands, mainly due to the depopulation of rural areas, being now in strong recovery and expansion.

The gang is a group of amateur musicians of traditional music.

It consists of 10 to 15 musicians and a dash or troubadour.

The instruments used are strings (guitar, guitar, lute, mandolin and violin) and percussion (tambourine, cymbals, cane and fake or castanets).

The chants, songs or verses of poetry eagles are sight-(improvised) consist of four eight-syllable verses with rhyme and are improvised by the trouvere or script.

Then the chorus repeats the last verse followed by chorus of each individual crew.

The theme of these ballads is diverse, but is fundamentally religious issues, refers to issues of place or criticizes piropea or acquaintances, but always with a laugh, with irony and without malice.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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