Music from Senegal: Teranga

Last wednesday, the 20th of January, we went to the Filarmonica theatre to see «Teranga», a traditional music group from Senegal. There were six people, five men and one woman. The woman danced and sang and the five men played instruments and accompanied her singing. They played a lot of strange instruments such as the «tama» (drum) or the kora (string instrument). They taught us many interesting things about their culture and traditions. For example, how to ask for rain. We also remember when the girl said: «If you want to marry me, you have to have cows». For us it was very funny, but she described a real situation which wasn´t so funny. We had a good time because it was something different and we learned a lot  about traditions and music from Senegal.

Thalía Devesa Fernández, Mateo Fernández Alonso (2º ESO B) and Nicolás González Fernández (2º ESO C).

Second year students in the Filarmónica Theatre.