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The Galician Gaita in Havana

Galicia, ese territorio máis imaxinado que percorrido, tras dos ecos dunha gaita…

Galicia, that territory more imagined than travelled while chasing the echoes of a bagpipe…

Xabier L. Marqués

When in 1996 The Chieftains recorded the album Santiago, they highlighted the value of the music of the north-western Iberian Peninsula and its connection with America. At this time, Paddy Moloney argued that "Galicia is the world’s most undiscovered Celtic country". Although Galicia belongs to the universe of the Celtic World, it was around the 1970’s onwards that Galician traditional music and folklore started its process of revitalization with bands like Fuxan os Ventos (Lugo, 1972) and Milladoiro (Santiago de Compostela, 1978).

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