OUR HISTORY
EXPOSICIÓN EN LA GALERÍA SENDA DE BARCELONA
19 DE FEBRERO, 2023
The Xácara Pipeband was created in 1999 in Oviedo, in the bosom of the Cultural Association Xácara, from pupils of the School of Music Traditional Xácara - The Guareña, of Oviedo.
Though before we had done a couple of actions, the band appeared officially to the public in June, 2002 in the Theatre Campoamor of Oviedo, in the final day of the Contest and Sample of Folklore " City of Oviedo ".
MUSICAL DIRECTION
From his beginnings the band took Ricardo Soberado Hoyos as the musical director, and possessed several directors of percussion throughout this time, since they were Diego C. Camiña, Manuel Durán and Diego Purón. The division of the band and the final touch of the bagpipes was chargeable to Paul Alonso.
Nowadays, and from November, 2016, the band possesses Álvaro Álvarez Fernandez (member of the band from 2008), as the director musical and in charge of the final touch of the bagpipes, with Manuel Duran as director of percussion, and Diego Purón, and Arsenio Ruiz as co-workers in some of the arrangements of drums and side drums, respectively.
PUBLICATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
MUNDO SALVAJE
• Year 2002: Publication of an interactive CD, where there were included photographies, videoes and the history of the band from his foundation.
• Year 2006: Collaboration in the recording of the CD "Cahórnega" of the group folk Cantabrian "Cahórnega".
• Year 2009: Publication of our first one, and up to the moment, only one record, qualified music work "El Medrar del Carbayu".
• Year 2014: Collaboration in the recording of the CD "Color verde tormenta" of the group folk Cantabrian "TORALia".
AWARDS
The first prize to our path came to us from hands of the Asturian Center of Madrid, which granted the Grouse of Bronze to us in the special category, in the year 2002. Other prizes received during our path are:
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Reward to the "Better Spectacle of the year" delivered by the Radio Television of the Asturias, in the year 2013.
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First prize in the I championship of bands of bagpipes "Arcu Atlánticu" of Gijon, in the year 2013.
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Reward Carlos Jeannot to the "Better Band of the Year 2015" granted by the Contest and Sample of Folklore " City of Oviedo ".
THE PIPEBAND
The pipeband is formed approximately by 21 persons. But they are not the only components of the grouping, because Xácara opens the doors to all those people who want to play in the band, providing them with the clothes, the instruments, and the musical training needed in the trials of the band, in order that they can get out to play as soon as possible with the rest of the components in active.
The bagpipes are perfected in If flat, handmade constructed in wood of granadillo for Michael Alonso. The percussion is of the brand Pearl, known like 'marching', used by the great majority of the bands of bagpipes of the whole world, both Scotch and Irish, Breton or American.
PERFORMANCES
More than 350 from the year 2002 up to today. The great majority for all the councils of Asturias and great part of the Spanish territory. Out of our borders we have operated in 39 edition of the InterCeltic Festival of the Lorient (France), Holiday of the Lemon (Monaco), the Festival Corps's Folclórico Saint Pierre (France), in the Festival of There dances Bretone et of the Saint-Loup de Guingamp (France), 89 ª edition of Cornouaille de Quimper's Festival (France), and our successful Tour stands out for the cities of Valparaiso and Santiago, in Chile, during September, 2011.
REPERTORY
Our repertory is formed in the main by traditional Asturian songs: jotas, muñeiras, pasodobles, cancios de chigre... Also we touch some topics of countries with musical popular perfect ours as: Scotland or The French Brittany.
PIPEBAND'S FESTIVAL
From the year 2002 until the year 2015 the band has celebrated an annual festival in the autumns months. Always it has been autofinanced by us themselves and by the Theatre Philharmonic and the Audience " Prince Philip ". There have spent the great majority of the bandas of bagpipes of Asturias, groups of dance, singers and groups folk, which we consider to be a fundamental contribution to the diffusion and promotion of the Asturian music, and of which we feel really proud.
Undoubtedly, our more ambitious musical project. A step beyond in our way of reinterpreting the Asturian music, in the search of new challenges, so much musical as personnels. A spectacle that has taken us to scenes, which, we had never thought to tread.