Ara Va De Bo

The group formed itself in July of 1971 in Barcelona, in the Summer School of Teachers of the Asociació Rosa Sensat. Three ancient members of The Group of Folk Music (Xesco Boix, Jordi Roura and Josep Maria Pujol), the child librarian Núria Ventura and the teacher specialized in dance Laura Pérez set it up. Until now more than 60 musicians, dancers and actors have already passed through the group.

The group formed itself in July of 1971 in Barcelona, in the Summer School of Teachers of the Asociació Rosa Sensat. Three ancient members of The Group of Folk Music (Xesco Boix, Jordi Roura and Josep Maria Pujol), the child librarian Núria Ventura and the teacher specialized in dance Laura Pérez set it up. Until now more than 60 musicians, dancers and actors have already passed through the group. The initial goal of the group was more pedagogic than artistic: Working, centers of recreation and child parties in the street, for schools. The circumstances of the country provoked that the group also offered non foreseen shows initially: clowns, theater of street, puppets, prestidigitation and mime. The discographical world has been a good platform of the work of the group. ARA VA DE BO has recorded its disks with the collaboration of children and, often, catalan musicians of first row: Xavier Batllès, Jordi Sabatés, Max Sunyer, Josep Mas Kitflus, etc. The pedagogic approach has carried them to participate also in didactic cycles for Musical Youths, Town Councils and other institutions public and deprived from the Principality f Catalonian, Valencian Country, Balearic Islands, North Catalonian, Andorra and Aragon. In its disks and shows the Catalan traditional music has combined with the rock, the jazz, the sauce, etc. to attempt to offer the children and teenagers a proposal attractive and inspired in the sonority of the country. The year 2001, ARA BA DE BO, after 30 years of work, he specialized in working in small groups for the schools offering sessions with stories and songs based on the tales and the music traditional and preferably for ages among the nursery and 7 years. In these auditions the children can learn in the classroom, the functioning of the instruments and even rudimentary copies construct. The group believes in intercultural folklore that has been elaborated in Catalonia with the combination of the Catalan tradition and the other ethnic groups seetled on this country. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..