Vilar de Moors, “the good son returns home” – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

Perhaps it lies that idea that you should not return to where we were already happy. Vilar de Moors ventured back to open the door to music and this will of resurrection – whose program calls for new audiences, but very squints whom there passed in 1982, 1996 or other subsequent editions – seems to be accompanied by a lot of people. It is true that many come because they have heard, but it is not hard to find these days on the banks of Coura in Caminha, who, as the festival is to return.

On a hot late August opens a new chapter in the history of the festival that celebrates 50 years, but that is far, far from having reached the 50 editions. The year 2016 is of resurrection, who was born and died more than a couple of times. And hard it is to find those who do not know the back to the front of the history of the oldest festival in the Iberian Peninsula.

Crossing the also she mythical stone bridge that gives access to the festival, and one of the streets the granitic village is the Café Regaleira. 17h, Michael Braga, 35, has his hands full. Sai beer, Bifana out, after the village is celebrating. “For a long time there was a festival. And this year has been very good, very good. Very above my expectations compared to 2014 was weaker. If this keeps up, I think we have the return of weight festival “foreshadowed.

But after all what Vilar de Moors have? “Vilar de Mouros is their father all, it’s as simple as that. It’s special. He hoped that all year. I was emigrant and every year marked my holidays according to the date of the festival. It was to see my lively parish, meet people from everywhere, “recalls proudly.

on the way to the campsite, loaded backpacks indicate plans for a three day stay. In the park, winds in a maze of tents, if stumbles in cabinets, escapes with some sort of trampling a boat ready to enter the river Coura. At that time, it is difficult to find the coveted place in the shade. That’s what they are looking Maria, Ricardo and Francisco, three friends who know each other for 40 years and arriving from Porto. “They are 50 years of Moorish village. I’m 51 and it’s the first time I come and I go camping,” says marketeer Maria Cordes. “The poster is fabulous. I’m waiting for Waterboys [Saturday at 22h45] and Echo and the Bunnymen [returned here Friday at 22h35],” he says. But it is necessary to “raise camps,” because there the site do not like.

Change SIM

Ricardo Antunes, 49, is already repeating these wanderings. He was there in 1982 and witnessed the first pass of U2 for Portugal, at the same festival where Echo & amp; The Bunnymen acted. “It was to come last year [the issue was canceled] .Venho hear bands that I loved. Step here four days and change the SIM “, he admits. Vilar de Moors also has this power, to clean and refresh the soul. But also to educate, “for people to gain freedom and sensitivity.” Therefore, the wide range of festivals is not to Ricardo Antunes, a problem. “It’s good to have a lot of variety for each can choose what but like. What is needed is that, from children, to listen to music, to go to the cinema, to the theater for a day have a taxi driver who is interested in going to a opera “hold.

But who thinks the festival pulls only the old guard is wrong. Claudio Carneiro and Pedro Dinis, 19, of Vizela are here for the first time. “I love a band that’s on the poster [German Milky Chance, Friday, 21h10] and my uncles, who came here always told me very well, “says Claudio. Already Peter wants to see Linda Martini (Friday, 20h) and Peter Hook. It is proof that Vilar de Mouros is a meeting of generations between those who make replay to the soundtrack of your life and who may well adopt the soundtrack of the parents’ lives or grandparents.

Near the entrance, the swell of people with t-shirts Joy Division and Peter Murphy Bauhaus was already guess who would be the protagonists of the night. But before the sun set time yet to hear the Cancioneiro of walks that did the honors and opened the festival with a performance of more than 50 musicians and county artists to remember the traditional music and the origins of a festival that began as dedicated to the folklore of the Minho and Galicia.