Mujeres con Raíz (Women with Roots) was born at the end of 2014 to pay a well-deserved tribute to the traditional voice of Murcian women, the owners of a large part of the oral heritage of the southeast of the peninsula. Women's voices that most of the time were relegated to the domestic sphere through lullabies, or also to intimate and family prayers; but who also worked, like men, and then threw their harvest and threshing songs to the wind. Either they asked the heavens for water or they celebrated with malagueñas, jotas and seguidillas. Women, in short, who set all ages of life to music.
The project is presented as a look at space and time in which female voices bring us closer to the east and west of each day, recognising in it our past and our destiny, that of the everyday stories told and sung by all and that of the geographies travelled by the members of the group from their different trajectories, travelling from east to west and from north to south through the territory of Murcia, to build a project to recover and listen to this musical repertoire.
Carmen María Martínez (vocals and castanets), Mari Cruz Sánchez (vocals), Tomás García (guitar, guitarrón, tambourines, cymbals and backing vocals), Juan José Robles (guitar, guitar, lute and backing vocals), R. Enrique González (percussion and backing vocals).
*Concert included in the ETNOMUSIC ALS POBLES cycle.
