Susana Seivane Hoyo is a Galician

Galician people

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 gaita

Gaita

Gaita may refer to:Musical instruments*Various types of bagpipes common to Spain and Portugal such as:** Gaita asturiana, a bagpipe used in the Spanish provinces of Asturias, northern León and western Cantabria...

 (bagpipes

Bagpipes

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) player. She was born in Barcelona

Barcelona

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, Spain

Spain

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, into a family of well-known Galician luthiers and musicians, the Seivane family, whose workshop is the Obradoiro de Gaitas Seivane. She started her musical career at the age of three. Guided by her father Álvaro Seivane and influenced by skilled bagpipers such as her grandfather Xosé Manuel Seivane, Ricardo Portela and Moxenas, she notable in the bagpipe world and the world of traditional Galician music. She synthesizes the "enxebre" style of the ancient bagpipers while creating her own style including other musical influences.

Festivals

From 1999, when Susana Seivane issued her first album, the gaiteira gave many concerts and participated in festivals in Spain, other European countries and the United States and receiving praise from the public and from critics. She goes to many important national and international festivals and travels around the world, having attended the Festival Celtic Connections in Scotland, the Festival Rudolstadt in Germany, the Dranouter Fest in Belgium, the Irish Festival in Italy, the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany, the Brampton Festival, Eastleigh Summer Music Festival, and Cambridge Folk Festival in England, and the Malahide International Festival of Piping & Drumming in Ireland. In France she has performed in concert in Paris, Nantes, Lyons, Les Irlandays, Juvisy sur Orge, the Festival du Bout du Monde and the Festival de Saint-Loup in Guingamp

Guingamp

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. In Spain she has played at the Festival Folk de Getxo, the Mercat de la Música Viva de Vic in Barcelona, La Mar de Músicas at Cartagena, the Festival Mendébala de Bizkaia, the Festival Folk de Segovia, San Froilán de Barcelona, Karrantza de Bizkaia, and the Festival Folk de Cantabria. She often appears in Galicia at venues such as the Festival do mundo celta de Ortigueira, San Froilán en Lugo, Festas de Maria Pita, Praza Maior de Ourense, Praza da Quintana de Santiago de Compostela, and Pontevedra.

Discography

• Susana Seivane
  Susana Seivane (album)
  Susana Seivane is the eponymous debut album by Galician gaita player Susana Seivane, released in 1999.-History:The album has a wide diversity of time-signatures. The arrangements are by Rodrigo Romani of Milladoiro, Brais Maceiras and Seivane...
  
  (1999)
• Alma de buxo
  Alma de buxo
  Alma de Buxo is an album by Galician gaita player Susana Seivane, released in 2002.-History:With her second album Alma de Buxo produced by herself, under the artistic supervision of Rodrigo Romaní, Seivane consolidated her position as a Galician musician in the field of folk music...
  
  (2001)
• Mares de tempo
  Mares de tempo
  Mares de tempo is an album by Galician gaita player Susana Seivane, released in 2004.-History:Seivane's third record, in which some well-known Galician musicians participated, is supplemented by a DVD that contains footage of her on stage and off...
  
  (2004)
• Os soños que volven (2009)

Prizes

• Finalist in the Indie Awards 2001
• 4th Premio Xarmenta in 2008 for her defense of the Galician language
• Premio Artista of the TVG
• Premio Opinión (twice)
• Star of the year

Press

• "With her, folk regains grounds for hope"--ABC
• "Her way of understanding bagpipes, far from being experimental or open, speaks from the tradition"--ABC
• "Susana Seivane, caste bagpiper: although the Galician tradition was always at the centre of Susana Seivane's musical life, this muse of bagpipes injects a renewed and innovative flavouring to her songs and records. Susana Seivane is an inspired and inspiring muse, especially when she sails the seas of time with the sounds of her magic gaita"--World Music
• "Her concerts are, surely, the most refined expression that Galician traditional music can reach"--Diario de Pontevedra

External links

• Official website (in Galician
  Galician language
  Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
  
  , French, Spanish, English and Breton
  Breton language
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• Obradoiro de gaitas Seivane