The Brigada Víctor Jara () is a Portuguese

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band, with a career of more than 30 years and among the most influential Portuguese folk acts. The band was formed in 1975, by a group of young people from

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that was participating in one of the massive

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campaigns carried out by the provisional governments that administered Portugal in the years after the

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of 1974. The group was working in the inland region of Beira Baixa and often played

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an and Portuguese folk and political songs for the people. After discovering the cultural and musical traditions of the region the group formed the band and named it after

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, a Chilean

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and folk singer-songwriter, killed after the

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carried out by General

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Discography

*1977 - Eito Fora *1979 - Tamborileiro *1981 - Quem Sai aos Seus *1982 - Marcha dos Foliões *1984 - Contraluz *1989 - Monte Formoso *1995 - Danças e Folias *2000 - Por Sendas Montes e Vales *2003 - Ceia Louca (Single) *2006 - Ceia Louca (CD)

Band members

*Arnaldo de Carvalho -

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and

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*Aurélio Malva -

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

bagpipe Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, No ...

,"Viola Braguesa" and voice *Catarina Moura - voice *José Tovim -

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and chorus *Joaquim Teles / Quim Né -

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and percussion *Luís Garção Nunes - guitar, "Viola Beiroa" and "Viola Toeira" and

cavaquinho The cavaquinho (pronounced in Portuguese) is a small Portuguese string instrument in the European guitar family, with four wires or gut strings. A cavaquinho player is called a ''cavaquista''. Tuning A common tuning in Portugal is C G& ...

*Manuel Pires da Rocha -

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

and mandolin * Ricardo Dias -

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flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

and bagpipe *Rui Curto -

and

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