Javea Grapevine 184 2016 Three | Page 12

The Xàbia Folk Season arrives with a first concert, as a musical appetiser, by Javier Bergia & Begoña Olavida. The performance, on Friday April 22 at 21:30 hours in the Casa Cultura, is free and serve as a backdrop for Councilman for Cuklture, Quico Moragues, previewing this year's festival (6 to May 8), which moves to riurau d'Arnauda and in addition to front-line performers will be include popular cultural activities. Moragues has encouraged all fans of folk and roots music to enjoy the performance of Bergia and Olavida, who will present "Singing Poets from a Time Apart" A repertoire set for psaltery (a medieval plucked string instrument that is still preserved in the traditional music of the Pyrenees), guitar and vocals featuring songs with original music by the two musicians and texts of great Spanish poets such as Gonzalo de Berceo, Quevedo, Calderon de la Barca, Antonio Machado and Luis Cernuda.