Neither music has a gender nor are there instruments for men or women. It is what he claims Goxo Txarangaa group made up only of female musicians, classmates from the conservatory who came together to claim in a masculinized sector.
“It’s going out to parties in any town and see a txaranga completely made up of men or with one or two women”, denounces the percussionist Alaiz Barrena in this sense. “It shocks us a lot that in the big orchestras, the flutes are boys, and then you are in the conservatories and 95% are women who play the flute “, illustrates.
Oihane Lotero, for her part, chose the trombone at the age of six, a rare instrument among women. “All my teachers have been boys,” she explains. She wants the girls to know “that instruments are not for men or women, they are for people“.
They are having a very good reception and, with only a month to live, La Goxo has already played in San FermÃn. However, Alaiz points out that “there is a 1%” that makes “the typical comment of ‘well, for women they play very well'”. “We have also heard ‘to be women because they play loud'”, says the percussionist, who settles: “Come on, no!”. “It encourages us more to continue giving the turra and let us be heard“, says Oihane for his part.
They always say goodbye by playing their anthem: ‘Oh Mom’, by Rigoberta Bandini. A song that, in the words of Alaiz, strongly vindicates “feminism, equality for women”. So, break stereotypes for them and for all that will come
Source: Lasexta
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