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Cantos de Arriero da Fonsagrada

from A Celebration of Twenty by IONA

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Foliada de Berducido/Nevado Esta (It’s Snowing)/Cantos de Arriero da Fonsagrada (Song of the mule driver of Fonsagrada)/Procesión del Inca
- Galician/Bolivian
In this unusual set, we seek to demonstrate the influence of the music brought by Galician and Asturian sailors from Spain’s Atlantic coastline, who crewed on the Spanish voyages of discovery, to Central and South America. Barbara sings the plea of a mule driver from a small town in the eastern mountains of Galicia to his mules to climb bravely up the mountains. We bracket the song with a Galician dance tune, the tune of a Bolivian song, and music from a cultural parade honoring The Inca, a statue or icon carried on the shoulders of villagers as they process.

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CANTOS DE ARRIERO DA FONSAGRADA

Tu cantar arriero.
Cantar que nunca se acabara.
Empieta por traer na nina,
Acaba por traer na nina.
Empieta por traer na nina,
Acaba por traer na nina.

Dicen de los arrieros,
Cantaban por cuesta arriba.
Arriba mula gallarda,
Arriba gallarda arriba!
Arriba mula gallarda,
Arriba gallarda arriba!

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from A Celebration of Twenty, released May 15, 2006
Barbara Tresidder Ryan (lead vocals, Celtic bouzouki, tambourine)
Bernard Argent (wooden flute, whistles)
Chuck Lawhorn (bass guitar)
Andrew Dodds (fiddle)

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IONA Washington, D.C.

IONA has been taking its unique brand of traditional Celtic music to festivals, arts centers, schools & house concerts all over North America and Europe since 1986, blending music from the various Celtic traditions with stories and a little humor - Barbara Ryan (vocals, bouzouki, bodhran), Bernard Argent (flute, doumbek), Chuck Lawhorn (bass), Jim Queen (fiddle, banjo) & Kathleen Larrick (dance). ... more

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