Nueva Canción Canaria
Caco Senante’s profile offers a first access point to popular song, folk renewal and contemporary identity projection.
- From the 1970s
- Verification: Institutional or heritage source located
Atlantic music
Links between the Canary Islands, the Americas and popular repertoires that travelled with migration.
Atlantic music
Grouped by type
Period
Twentieth century · 2Twentieth and twenty-first centuries · 4
Groups and ensembles
Los Sabandeños
Elfidio Alonso’s profile supports work on repertory recovery, arrangements, public dissemination and organised folk memory.
- Since the twentieth century
- Verification: Institutional or heritage source located
Los Gofiones
Canary Islands Government and group sources document their first performance at Teatro Pérez Galdós, their Canary Islands Popular Culture Award and their first album based on Totoyo Millares’ fieldwork.
- First performance in 1969; first album in 1970
- Verification: Institutional or heritage source located
Taburiente
CanariWiki documents Taburiente’s formation in 1974 and its role in Nueva Canción Canaria; the Canary Islands Government archive presents it as a reference in Canarian roots music.
- Formed in 1974
- Verification: Institutional or heritage source located
Mestisay
Canary Islands Government programming documents Olga Cerpa and Mestisay with performances built around roots sounds and Atlantic colours in island cultural events.
- Contemporary career
- Verification: Institutional or heritage source located
Los Campesinos
The Canary Islands Government presents Los Campesinos as a Lanzarote ensemble devoted to preserving ethnographic heritage and Lanzarote airs.
- More than 60 years according to institutional source
- Verification: Institutional or heritage source located