“Bufacalibos” by Biella Nuei. Villarroya de los Pinares

On the long weekend from October 12 to 14, several concerts have been scheduled in localities of the region.

On the one hand, on October 12, two concerts will be held with the performance of MOSICAIRES, in Molinos at 12.00h and in Villarluengo at 18.00h.

On Friday 13 and Saturday October 14 concerts are scheduled for the cycle Made In Maestrazgo by the Aragonese group Biella Nuei. They will develop a total of four concerts that will approach the music of oral tradition from four different perspectives, incorporating different artistic disciplines, such as dance or theater. They will take place in the following locations:

– Friday, October 13:

La Cuba, 16.00h

Cantavieja, 19.30h

– Saturday, October 14:

Villarroya de los Pinares, 12.00h

Allepuz, 18.00h

This cycle pays tribute to and updates the traditional music and dances of the Maestrazgo region, paying attention to several aspects:

a) The bagpipe and the bagpiper’s profession

Through the streets and threshing floors of the villages of Maestrazgo the melodies of the last traditional pipers of Aragon sounded, many of great quality and exercised with great dignity the craft of piper; as the famous Camilo Ronzano, Aurelio Ejarque, Antonio Carceller or Santolea pipers.

b) Bureos: the masovera festival

To remember the simplicity of the celebration that comes after the work in the field, with hardly any artifice and where naturalness presided over those celebrations.

c) The reinau: between kings and majors

Another very interesting tradition, which deserves its own concert, is the one that combines music, dance and a whole ceremonial ritual:

the so-called reinaus. Their samples abound in all the villages of the area, some are still performed or have been recovered as the Miravete de la Sierra, Villarluengo, but others, however, have disappeared without a trace, as the Pitarque.

d) Square dancing

Before the last traditional bagpipers disappeared, there was a time when new musical genres were incorporated, in this case from the north, adding to the repertoire of those traditional bagpipers.

musicians: chotis, polkas, mazurkas, fox or tuesten; which coexisted with other older styles: jota, pasodoble, villano or fandango.