I will be leaving at the end of April to attend this years edition of the Seychelles Carnival! . . . . can't wait to hear the music!. . . . Sandy Dhuyvetter
Join me!!
Seychelles carnival crowd can expect to
be blown
away by Spain’s La Tuna band
away by Spain’s La Tuna band
Without moving so much as one
footstep the throng of people that will come down for the 2015 edition of the
Seychelles carnival, will get a glimpse of Spanish culture.
La Tuna band have confirmed that they will
be in Seychelles to delight the crowd with Spain’s folkloric traditional music.
It will be La Tuna’s first participation
in the carnival but it will not be the first time that the band performs in
Seychelles; in fact they were here in April 2014. They performed outside
the National Cultural Centre for orphans, at popular local bazaar ‘Bazar
Labrin’ at Beau Vallon and at the Eden Island jetty. Destination
Management Company had worked collaboratively with Seychelles Tourism Board to
bring them here.
The group coming down for the Seychelles
Carnaval International de Victoria will not consist of the same members as the
ones who visited our small islands last year.
La Tuna has a long, rich history dating
back from 1218 that is closely linked to the University of Salamanca.
Struggling university students with musical skills would perform in
taverns, ale-houses and
at university functions to pay for food and tuition fees.
Press forward to the
21st century, band members have changed along the years but the values remain
more or less the same. They perform wearing the same costumes members
used to wear in the 13th century,
playing the guitar, accordion, tambourine and bandurria. They are very
popular across the globe and in their home country, regularly hired to perform
in auditoriums, hotels, restaurants and at wedding ceremonies.
The public can expect
to be entertained by a great variety of Spanish and Latin melodies and rhythms
such as rumbas, flamencos, pasos dobles, boleros, tangos, sones and baladas.
