Saturday, 6th of July Escales de la Catedral, 22.30 h
Cants religiosos gitanos de Catalunya i Romania
Tekameli (Catalunya) Jérôme Espinas, veu i guitarra Moïse Espinas, veu i guitarra Salomon Espinas, veu i guitarra Jérémie Espinas, veu i guitarra Gabi Lunca & Ensemble Instrumental (Romania) Gabi Lunca, veu Costel Onoriu, contrabaix Marcelus Burloi, guitarra Gherorghe Stan, timbales Dragos Oancea, violí Julian Stavarache, acordió Programa: Cants religiosos gitanos de l’església evangèlica

The members of Tekameli are descendents of the gypsies who at the beginning of the 17th. century emigrated from the part of Catalonia south of the Pyrenees to the Roussillon region now in Southern France. Over the years they came to form a numerous settlement in the Saint Jacques district of Perpignan. In the late 1950s they adapted their popular and sacred vocal music to the rumba, a musical style with Antillean and Southern Spanish influences, made popular by the gypsy community in Barcelona.

Gabi Lunca has become almost an institution in Romania. Inspired by the spiralling movements of his country dances or deep in the smoky atmosphere of the cabarets of Bucharest, the performance of the gypsy lautaris brings total involvement to both body and soul, thanks in part to the artists’ profound knowledge of the music, but due mainly to their special style of performance, at once rudimentary and sophisticated. After many years, Gabi Lunca decided to specialise in Evangelical religious music, while maintaining the traditional forms of his art.