A Rianxeira

 

A Rianxeira is a popular song of Galicia, which has become a symbol of its cultural identity with a status comparable to a hymn.

 

 

 

Composed in 1947 in Buenos Aires by Anxo Romero Loxo, on words of Xesús Frieiro Dourado, known as «Pinciñas» two emigrants rianxeiros, it was performed for the first time the following year by the Coro Castelao in Buenos Aires under the title of Ondiñas da nosa ría, then recorded in Montevideo by the same group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBmHax931MA

 

It was the choir Bernardo del Río who made the first Galician adaptations with new lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jd2jEG32Sw.

 

 

 

The feast at La Virxe de Guadalupe (the Virgin of Guadeloupe) has been celebrated since 1854 on the first Sunday after September 8.

 

His text is not really religious, because it evokes above all the general figure of the female worker of the Galician Sea as a Marian praise which serves above all as a suitable metaphor.

 

 

 

Nowadays Rianxeira is one of all the Festas (Galician festivals) and is sung by all generations as a hymn. After multiple interpretations, the gaita is the accompaniment of rigour and modern festive versions are more like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd_Txv1nphc.

 

Since the 1990s, it has also been taken up by the supporters of the Galician teams at sporting events, in particular those of the Celta Vigo (Real Club Celta de Vigo https://rccelta.es/).

 

 

 

Crédit photo : /rianxeiros.blogspot.com

 

 

 

 

 

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