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Folk
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Presentation of the Spanish Folk Festival ***
Orihuela
Costa, 19th of July 2009
The Town Hall of Orihuela is pleased to announce
that this year, as part of the cultural summer program,
a Spanish folk festival will be held in Orihuela
Costa. This festival will feature a variety of different
dances, songs, music and costumes from the different
Spanish regions of Valencia, Murcia and the Balearic
Islands.
Orihuela Costa can look forward to the following
groups:
The folkdance group "Nuestra Señora
de Belen" comes from La Aparecida, a
suburb of Orihuela. This well known and popular
group was formed in 1979 and has now made
many performances at home and abroad.
Next, the folkdance group "La Virgen
del Carmen" hail from the village of
Beniaján in Murcia, in the area of
Huetana Peña "El Azahar".
This well renowned and respected group was
first established in 1979 with the object
of reviving the traditional dancing of Murcia
and spreading it. This dance group has also
paid particular attention to the history of
costume in the 18th and 19th century Murcia
and have made their costumes according to
proper historical accuracy. These can be admired
in their performances. The folk group has
a wide repertoire of music combined with different
dances such as the "Malagueñas"
(a traditional southern Spanish dance) "Parrandas"
(a typical Murcian dance) and "Fandangos"
(an old Spanish dance). |
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