Take the Alentejo to the capital “through a corner worried about the future” – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

It is not every day that the CCB Main Auditorium opens in a corner like this. Campaniça the Despique , Peter Master work is pretext to sound in Lisbon, many voices, the strength of sing Alentejo, that UNESCO honored as Intangible Heritage of Humanity .

                     

                         Launched in February this year, the disk drives the show, but this will further, explains the musician: “When it comes to tradition, feelings, that you can not fully convey a disc. As much as we like it, it does not. And the concert, starting from the disc repertoire, goes further. Each of the guests will do a song with me and then get on stage to present another piece of their own repertoire. Also, be with me a choral group of thirty men, ranch Cantadores of Aldeia Nova de Sao Bento, the show sing weighing, hard. This music, live, is never done in the same way “

With Pedro Mestre, the CCB, will be in addition to the singers Ranch, another choir, the South Cantadores.; José Manuel David (member, as Pedro Mestre, Group 4 To the south, with José Barros and Rui Vaz) on piano, pipe organ, accordion and flute; Tania Lopes, percussion; Vasco Sousa, bass guitar and double bass; Janita Salomé, voice; Fábia Rebordão, voice; Jorge Fernando, voice and classical guitar; Pedro Calado, voice; and Henrique Leitão, Portuguese guitar.

“I will try to bring the Alentejo to the capital through a corner worried about the future. A corner that intends to evolve, “says Peter Master. Do it in a room as the CCB, which over the years has housed multiple genres, “it is a great responsibility but also a great satisfaction. Bring sing , bring the viola Campaniça, the singers, but also bring innovation. Show people what we have in mind, and it is in this way that is the future of a song that no longer identifies as a whole, with the work of the field or the tavern. “

corner to Despique which gives the disc name is a Alentejo corner to challenge. Pedro Mestre, which over two decades has worked tradition discs and ethnographic collection, wanted to with this his work noted that the tradition is renewed without jeopardizing the original root of the sing :

“It’s a song of the people, spontaneous. Each singer who sings, plays the sing your way. And to recreate it, you are creating. “But the social framework of the sing if it has changed over the years. “One thing is to sing the work of the field in the corner serves to relieve the workload, distracting the minds and make the time go faster. As they say: ‘faster spends the day, quickly pass the time.’ Another thing is the singing in the tavern: there becomes. It is the natural habitat of the sing . When he lost there, can also be lost in other places. “

But you have not lost, he says. The root remains untouched, but the rest evolves over time: “We always need the root, which is still where I am; a tree can only have a large pantry if you have a large root. And that’s the reason and the reason why we have the sing to renew itself, with young singers to appear. “This is your main concern now. “The sing Alentejo has always been grounded and the last one suffered much, and the people have this pride, this way of being. But it evolves. The sing that is done today is present, alive. They are replicas of old fashions. And the Alentejo always knew how to sing things from your daily life. So the new generations are coming to the sing and give it your own interpretation. “