Events

On November 18th, at 3pm , the photographic exhibition "Zés P'reiras Nacionais de Fragoso: sounds of relationships and affections" will open for visitors until December 18, at the Casa do Povo da Junta de Freguesia de Fragoso Barcelos.

Curated by Lenice de Sousa Leite, a PhD student at INET-md, the "Zés P'reiras Nacionais de Fragoso: sounds of relationships and affections" photographic exhibition aims to demonstrate that the music of the Zés P'reiras is steeped in life and relationships strengthened in a multi-sensory universe.

Zés P'reiras are musical groups of drums, boxes, and bagpipes, which are widespread in northern Portugal. In Fragoso, this musical practice made history with the group of the "old ones", the name affectionately given by the community to the parish's Zés P'reiras group, active from around 1930 to 1981.
Exposing the universe of sensations and people that make up, enable, and embody the Zés P'reiras only visually is impossible! You must "be together": playing, learning, laughing, drinking, and walking a lot, but always together. Each song played, each memory built and passed on is a knot that binds and solidifies the link with the present and the past, making the existence and longevity of these groups possible, as we could see between Fragoso's Nationals and the "ancients", the Zés P'reiras group that preceded them.