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The XXXVII National Folklore Festival of Molina de Segura is held on Saturday, September 7, at 9:30 p.m., in the Tomás Fernández Gil Municipal Auditorium, within the framework of the 2019 Patron Saint Festivals. Its organization corresponds to the Molina Choirs and Dances Group , Regional Association Francisco Salzillo (member of the Federation of Choirs and Dance Associations of Spain, FACYDE), in collaboration with the Department of Local Festivities of the Molinense City Council.
The Festival will feature the following folk groups:
Santander Choirs and Dance Group.
Group Choirs and Dances Virgin of the Rosary of Alhama de Murcia.
Folk group Alcazaba, of Almería.
Grupo Choirs and Dances of Molina, Regional Association Francisco Salzillo, of Molina de Segura.
The participating groups will attend the reception offered by the Mayor of Molina de Segura, Esther Clavero Mira, and the rest of the Municipal Corporation, on Saturday, September 7, at 12:30 pm, in the Plenary Hall of the City Hall.
The festival will open with a surprise performance by the host group, Choirs and Dances of Molina, and will close with another small performance.
And, as a great novelty this year, the members of the Molinense group will release refajos.
SANTANDER CHORUS AND DANCE GROUP
The folkloric group Choirs and Dances of Santander began its activity in 1950 since the founding of the Choirs and Dances of Spain, formalized as a cultural association in 1984. It is composed of young people of both sexes, students and employees who, moved by their interest in maintaining the traditions and culture of the region, take advantage of their free time and annual vacation to travel with the group, performing at festivals, conferences, exhibitions and all those places where they are required.
Currently, it has a dance workshop for children at the María Sanz de Sautuola Public School and gives folklore talks at the schools that request it, as a measure of dissemination and conservation of folklore.
In 1997, 1998 and 1999 he organized a National Folklore Festival that became international in the years 2000 and 2002. In addition, he has participated in numerous national choir and dance competitions, being selected for the final phase, obtaining first place twice (in 1966 and 1970).
He has also performed on tours of Central European countries and Cuba with the Choirs and Dances of Spain, participating in the New York World's Fair, in 1964, in the pavilion of Spain.
Among other outstanding achievements, in 1977 he was awarded the European Prize for POPULAR ART, by the Alfred Toepfer FVS Foundation in Hamburg (Germany), in recognition of his merits in the collection, conservation, and dissemination of popular songs and dances, as well as of regional costumes, contributing with his example in a remarkable way to the promotion and encouragement of Popular Art.
In 2015, in a project with the folk music group Garma, he recorded the DVD called ALCORDANZAS.
It depicts 7 dances from Cantabria with an updated version of traditional melodies.
He is a member of the Federation of Choir and Dance Associations of Spain (FACYDE), as well as the International Dance Council (CID), a Unesco-dependent body.
Among his repertoire he has dances and dances of great variety and color, originating in the different areas and regions of Cantabria.
GRUPO COROS Y DANZAS VIRGEN DEL ROSARIO DE ALHAMA DE MURCIA
The group is created in 1952 and has a first era in which its performances are only local and regional.
After a six-year hiatus, he reorganized again in 1978 and since then he has maintained an unbroken trajectory of his work of compilation and dissemination of traditional music of the region.
He has participated in national and international festivals, such as those held in Cádiz, Murcia (Mediterranean Festival), Jaca (Pyrenees Festival), Holland, Germany, Poland, Greece, Italy, Portugal, United States, Sardinia Island and Azores Islands .
Its repertoire is made up of songs and dances from the Bajo Guadalentín region, where all the musical currents of the 19th century come together, such as parrandas, jotas and fandangos, which have different types of representation.
It is worth mentioning the contribution of the bolero teachers who arrived in the region, who introduced a large number of steps to the existing dances.
The group organizes each year the National Folklore Exhibition in Alhama de Murcia, in addition to a Folklore Children's Meeting and the representation of the Car de Los Pastores, a sacramental car represented for the first time in Alhama in 1927.
FOLKLÓRICA ALCAZABA DE ALMERÃA GROUP
The Folkloric Group Alcazaba was founded in 1992, coming from the former groups of the Women's Section, maintaining and updating the knowledge of folklore and clothing of our land.
He obtained recognition in 1995 as a cultural association.
Its main purpose is research, teaching and dissemination of folklore.
At the moment it is formed by about 40 members, between body of dance and rondalla.
It has two own Dance Schools for adults and children, and works continuously in the repertoire extension, in the creation and improvement of its clothing.
Like most groups in Andalusia, it has a double repertoire: dance and traditional music of Almeria, with the clothing of the province;
and dance and music of the Community of Andalusia, with the typical costume of faralaes.
The Folkloric Group Alcazaba has participated in many regional, national and international festivals, and, since the beginning, in the program to support the culture of Almeria (PACA), organized by the Diputación de Almería.
GRUPO COROS Y DANZAS DE MOLINA, REGIONAL ASSOCIATION FRANCISCO SALZILLO, DE MOLINA DE SEGURA
The Molina Group of Choirs and Dances was created in 1987 with the aim of recovering the dances and traditions of the town and the Vega Media region.
Among its 40 components, they have managed to recover dances, until then practically forgotten, and traditions such as the Dance of Pujas, April Fool's Day, as well as the local Molinense costume, rescued from the municipal archives.
After its presentation, at the Romea Theater in Murcia, the group has performed at various national and international festivals: in Granada, Barcelona, ​​Ciudad Real, Germany, Holland, Poland, etc.
In 1992 they were the representatives of their city in the Universal Exhibition of Seville.
Since its creation they maintain a local Academy of folklore, with more than 100 students, through which they have created a Children's Dance Group.
As the most important activities to highlight, it annually organizes the Villa de Molina Folklore Show, where dances from across the national geography, such as Andalusia, Canary Islands, Castilla La Mancha, Aragón, etc., are learned, which are learned throughout the year at his dance academy.
At the same time, they also organize the Molina National Folklore Festival annually.
It belongs to the Regional Association of Choirs and Dances Francisco Salzillo de Murcia and the Federation of Choir and Dance Associations of Spain (FACYDE), which includes the most important folklore associations in Spain.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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