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In the Galician Music there is one earlier and one after...MILLADOIRO.
It is the first group of Galician music with features of modernity, hard linked at the same time with the Music of Galicia. Born at the end of the decade of 1970 of the union of the Galician traditional formation "Faíscas do Xiabre" (Antonio Seoane and Rodrigo Romaní), forms concerning an ancestral culture and to the Celtic song, recovering the tradition and the sound of instruments as the bagpipes, the harp, the hurdy gurdy, the clarinet, the ocarina or the bouzouki.
The first concert was celebrated on May 15, 1979 in the Salesianos School of A Coruña (GALICIA-Spain-Europe). They have recorded instrumental, vocal discs and with symphonic bands, have composed for the movies and realized productions and multiple collaborations. Milladoiro does not stop from his search of new records, opened for any proposal. Milladoiro is one of the principal ambassadors of the Galician culture all over the world, in addition to taking part in the field of the merger and investigation of new artistic forms.
*DISCOGRAPHY:
· 1978: "Milladoiro" (Antonio Seoane, Rodrigo Romaní and Xosé V. Ferreirós).
· 1979: The first Milladoiro disc: "A Galicia de Maeloc" (that introduces an Irish tune, making way to the Celtism of the Galician music). Milladoiro begins to act in the festivals of Ortigueira and Lorient.
·1980: "O berro seco". They act in the festival of Edinburgh.
·1982: "Milladoiro III". The BBC records in Galicia and Scotland an episode on Gallicia called "Os celtas divírtense" (the celts enjoy), with the collaboration of Milladoiro.
·1984: "Solfafría" and" Ris orangis" (in live from Paris).
·1985: Sound-track of the movie "La mitad del cielo" (half of the sky), of Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón.
·1986: "Galicia no país das marabillas".
·1987: Sound-track of the movies "Divinas palabras" (divine words) of José L. García Sánchez, and "La memoria fertile" (the fertile memory) of Domenech.
·1989: "Castellum Honesti". Milladoiro collaborate with Paul Winter on the disc "Solstice Winter".
·1990: Sound-track of the exhibition "Galicia no tempo" (Galicia along the time).
·1992: "From Kinsale to A Coruña" with the Orquestra of the Eireann Radio-Television (Bill Whelan).
·1993: Sound-track "d'Os camiños de Santiago" (of the Santiago pilgrimage ways), television series of TVE (Spanish Television channel) and TVG (Galician television channel).
·1994: "Iacobus Magnus" recorded with English Chamber Orchestra.
·1995: "Gallaecia Fulgit", "As fadas de estraño nome", the sound-track of "The king of the river" (of Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón) and they collaborate with Liam O'Flynn in "The given note".
·1997: They collaborate on several international collective discs.
·1998: "Travesías", work for symphonic orchestra.
·1999:" No confín dos verdes castros" and "Auga de maio", a disc with two tunes sung by Ana Belén and Olga Cerpa.
·2002: "O niño do sol" with the expert collaborations of the voices of Laura Amado, Kathy Mattea and Faustino Santalices (recovering his voice from one recording 50 years back).
·2002: "Adóbrica Suite", proyect on initiative to Ferrol Hometown ( A Coruña).
·2005: "XXV"-aniversary-.
·2006:" Unha estrela como guía", dialed completely vowel about texts of Manuel María´s poems.
*COMPONENTS:
*FOUNDING MEMBERS:
·Rodrigo Romaní (harps, bouzouki, acoustic guitar, ocarina, voice) 1978-2000
·Xosé V. Ferreirós (bagpipes, mandolin, oboe, bouzouki, percussions) 1978...
·Nando Country house (bagpipes, clarinet, tin whistle, percussions, voice) 1978...
·Anthony Seoane (keyboards, guitar, hurdy gurdy, accordion, voice) 1978...
·Xosé A. Méndez (flutes) 1979...
·Moncho García Rei (bodhran, percussions, small drum, voice) 1978...
·Laura Quintillán (violin) 1979-1980
*OTHER MEMBERS:
·Michel Canadá (violin) 1980-1993 ·Anthony Seijó (violin) 1993-1999
·Harry C. (violin) 1999 · I gnawed Country house -Nando Casal´s son- (harp, bouzouki, ocarina, percussions) 2000...
·Manú Count (guitars, bouzouki) 2000...
*AWARDS:
·1986: Goya Award for the sound-track of the movie "Half of the sky".
·1992: Honorific mention of Indie Award (Texas, USA).
·1994: Castelao Award (Galician autonomous government).
·2006: Trasalba Award.
*BIBLIOGRAPHY:
·Estévez, Xoán Manuel (1999): "Milladoiro. Moito máis que un grupo de música folk" ( Milladoiro. Much more than a group of music folk), Vigo ("Ir Indo" publishing).
·Pérez Pena, Marcos (2006): "Milladoiro. A Galicia de Maeloc. Unha fotobiografía" (Milladoiro. Maeloc's Galicia. A photobiography), Vigo ("Galaxia" publishing).
*MILLADOIRO´S WEB: www.milladoiro.com
(Images recorded in live on Sunday, the 20th of July, 2008)
**Note.- Available Video in its version of Galician and Spanish Text.
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