Joglaresa explores the roots of Iberian song – motets from the Convent of Las Huelgas, Arab-Andalusian ballads and Judeo-Spanish romanzas. With medieval and traditional instruments from Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Joglaresa perform songs, kept alive through centuries of tradition – a colourful and timeless kaleidoscope of Occident and Orient connecting the Occident to the Orient, and the 11th to the 21st century.
“I am worthy of the best, by Allah,
And proudly I walk, with head aloft.”
Wallada, C11th poetess of Cordoba
“carnival-like exuberance … enjoyable and virtuosic”
FROOTS Magazine“A superior collection of first-rate musicians”
Songlines Magazine“a felicitous exchange of ideas between Christian Europe and the Muslim Middle East”
The Guardian
