La Musgaña
La Musgaña is a Spanish folk music ensemble, founded in 1986 by , and . The band incorporates various instruments such as the dulcimer, fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, flutes, guitar and bass, and performs traditional music from the Iberian peninsula, mostly from the Spanish regions of Castile, Zamora, Leon, Extremadura and La Mancha. La Musgaña means "water-rat" in Spanish.
Biography[]
La Musgaña was founded when Almendros, a former Irish music performer, joined Climent and Martin in 1986. Six months later flutist and bassist were added to the line-up.
Their 1988 debut album "El Diablo Cojuelo" won the for young performers and propelled them through the ranks of Spanish music. Their second album, , was signed under the label in 1989.
Their third album, , released in 1991 under Xenophile-Green Linnet label, was their first release in North America and gave them international fame, but later in the year original members Climont and Martin left the band, and were replaced with , on the accordion, and composer, percussionist and hurdy-gurdy player Luis Delgado. The next year they made their first concert in the United States.
A fourth album, , was released in 1995, under the Xenophile-Green Linnet label.
Members[]
- Jaime Muñoz (Clarinets, accordion, saxophone, flutes, Bulgarian bagpipe)
- Carlos Beceiro (Bouzouki, guitar, bass)
- Luis Antonio Pedraza (three hole flute and drum, bagpipes from Aliste and Sanabria, singing and tambourine)
- Jorge Arribas (Accordion)
- Diego Galaz (Violin)
- Luis Delgado (Hurdy-gurdy, percussions)
Former members
- Enrique Almendros [Bagpipes (gaita de fole), 3-holed flute and tabor (gaita charra y tamboril), dulcimer] 1986-2004
- José María Climent (Violin, bagpipes) 1986-1991
- Rafa Martin (Hurdy-gurdy, guitar) 1986-1991
Discography[]
- 1988: La Musgaña
- 1989: El Paso de la Estantigua
- 1991: Lubicán
- 1992: El Diablo Cojuelo
- 1997: La Musgaña en Concierto
- 1998: Las Seis Tentaciones
- 2003: Temas Profanos
- 2008: 20
- 2009: Idas y Venidas
External links[]
- Spanish musical groups
- World music groups