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Mercedes
Peon : vocals, bagpipe, clarinet, percussion
Miguel Forneiro : accordion, bagpipe, keyboards
Francisco Dicenta : electric bass, keyboards
Dalmacio Rodrigo Lopez : drums and percussion
Ezequiel Orol : Guitars
More
about Mercedes Peon on :
www.mercedespeon.es
New Album "Siha" released Spring
2007
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girl with a shaved head, wearing a skirt and sandals, launches into
a pagan incantation, soon joined in polyphony by two chorus singers.
Like Judith brandishing the head of Holopherne, the bald Primadonna
raises a hoe to the heavens and beats the blade with a piece of
cut flint, singing her frenetic chant all the while. Next, Mercedes
Peon addresses those present in her native Galician and picks up
a gaita Ð the bagpipes of her country Ð while the rest of the group
sets up. An hour later, after dedicating an encore to her mother,
she withdraws to the applause of the crowd. Since her first album
came out in 2000, Mercedes Peon has been the symbol of the renaissance
of Galician folk music. "- François-Xavier Gomez
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