Portuguese Ethnic\Folk Music

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When people say that Portugal is an uniform country i tend to disagree, because as an example some type of music you'll only hear in certain regions of the country. You don't find this genre in other parts of the country i.e.
Even the same language can be difficult to understand esp. if its spoken with regional expressions and thick regional accent.

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When people say that Portugal is an uniform country i tend to disagree, because as an example some type of music you'll only hear in certain regions of the country. You don't find this genre in other parts of the country i.e.
Even the same language can be difficult to understand esp. if its spoken with regional expressions and thick regional accent.

Here is a couple of amateur video of the dance performed in the above video's cover.

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Just as a curiosity that thai kind of pagode you see in the background was a gift from Thailand to celebrate the 500 years of friendship between the countries as was the portuguese the first europeans to establish relations with the ancient Siam kingdom, now Thailand.

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Here it was in an International Folklore Festival in Lithuania, where Portugal won the contest.

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In hispanic countries, a tuna is a group of university students in traditional university dress who play traditional instruments and sing serenades. The tradition originated in Spain and Portugal in the 13th century as a means of students to earn money or food. Nowadays students don't belong to a "tuna" for money nor food; rather, they seek to keep a tradition alive, for fun, to travel a lot and to meet new people from other universities.


Female students from Coimbra University.



Male students from Braga University.

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Banda de folk oliventina que possuem dupla-nacionalidade e cantam em português e músicas tradicionais. Vale a pena conhecerem.

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