Luanda - The first edition of the Angolan Percussion Festival (FAP) was launched on Thursday, in Luanda, as part of an initiative by Palácio de Ferro cultural house, with a view to promoting national culture and identity, as well as celebrating ancestry.
The event, taking place on 11th and 12th December this year, is expected to bring together 50 artists from the country's 18 provinces.
According to the project coordinator, Odete Cassilva, FAP will celebrate Angolan culture, percussionists, history and all the people involved in the percussion of Angolan music.
“This project is a milestone in the history of Angolan music rhythms, as it is the first festival to promote the use of national instruments, such as Dicanza, Marimba and Ngoma”, she highlighted.
At the time, researcher and percussionist Jorge Malumba highlighted that the festival will have as its main focus the area of percussion and, above all, the trend of new percussionists, both in groups and individually.
In turn, the general director of Palácio de Ferro cultural house, João Vigário, highlighted that the project will enrich the institution's cultural itinerary and demonstrate the richness of ancestry.
He added that “the event will provide young people with typically Angolan musical rhythms, produced using ancestral instruments,".
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