Festival ‘Mujeres, Patrimonio’: an initiative that seeks to promote music created by women

In the streets and spaces full of history and beauty of Sigüenza, Guadalajara, music created by women is promoted. Anyone who has walked through this place during these days will have encountered a strange echo.

Voices that bring and take music to a city turned into an improvised stage. The singers Emilia and Pablo recognize that this place “has magic” with all its “little streets”.

There are no stadiums here, but a square, they say, with a lot of mystique. “Being singing and looking at the sky, looking at those houses, that Plaza Mayor, as if it takes you to another place. In some way, there is a sense of theater, because we are with stone walls,” they acknowledge.

These artists talk about first edition of the festival ‘Mujeres, Patrimonio’. An initiative that seeks to promote music made by women. “They yearned a little for this type of poster in which women are the protagonists and not 15%”, confesses the director of the festival Irene Estrella.

The battlements of the old Palace of the Bishops are witnesses that music, in other places, is also possible. “In the end, all music stays in the big capitals. We necessarily have to get out of the usual circuits,” acknowledges the singer Anna Colom.

In this way, they seek to take them to the towns, because here, they say, they also deserve a different cultural program. Thus, they use their voices as proof that both music and history form the perfect tandem to claim and enjoy heritage.