• The artist from Bahia composed a song for the 15th anniversary of Ponte…nas ondas!
• In 2010, she participated in the album Cores do Atlántico and performed at the presentation concert on San Simón Island.
• Her support was one of the reasons that supported Ponte…nas ondas!’s candidacy for UNESCO’s best practices in intangible cultural heritage.
Ponte…nas ondas! congratulates and celebrates the appointment of Margareth Menezes as the new Minister of Culture of Brazil. The artist took office on January 1 in Brasilia and will be one of the most popular figures in the new government of Lula da Silva.
Margareth Menezes is one of the artists who showed her support for the Ponte…nas ondas! experience along with other Brazilian performers such as Chico César, Daniela Mercury or Lenine through a musical collaboration.
Specifically, the current Minister of Culture performed “Portugaliza” at the 15th anniversary of the Association under the motto “The heritage of living treasures”.
http://pontenasondas.org/xv-edicion-xornada-multimedia-pno-2009-o-patrimonio-dos-tesouros-vivos/
Videoclip: https://youtu.be/PeYqmVW_sNw
Margareth Menezes in “Cores do Atlántico”
The Minister of Culture collaborated with the project Cores do Atlántico, by the Brazilian artist Socorro Lira and the Dutch professor Ria Lemaire Mertens, promoted by Ponte…nas ondas! It was presented within the framework of the international congress “Bridges of culture, bridges of the future” held in Vigo and Melgaço from 23 to 25 April 2010.
A transdisciplinary project with Galician-Portuguese “Cantigas de Amigo” (literally “friend song”, is a genre of medieval lyric poetry, more specifically the Galician-Portuguese lyric), that included the recording of an album with artists from various places in the Portuguese-speaking world and the publication of a book. Margareth Menezes participated in the album by performing one of the 15 friend songs, the song attributed to the troubadour Airas Nunes, “Bailemos nós já todas, ai amigas”.
Videoclip: https://youtu.be/z3Y32kMp1zI
At the presentation concert on the island of San Simón, Margareth Menezes also performed other songs such as Martin Códax’s “Ondas do mar de Vigo”. (full concert: www.coresdoatlantico.eu)
In 2014, the Latus publishing house at the University of Paraíba published the book throughout Brazil. This edition allows the Brazilian public to discover a common heritage with Galicia and Portugal.
+ info:
https://quilombonoroeste.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/cores-do-atlantico-livro-disco-galego-portugues-agora-no-brasil/
About Ponte…nas ondas!
Margaret Menezes’ visit to Galicia in 2010 allowed the artist to get to know the Ria de Vigo and participate in the rehearsals for the Cores de Atlántico concert together with other artists and musicians such as Socorro Lira from Brazil, Uxía from Galicia or João Afonso from Portugal. “Maga” visited the city of Vigo and Arcade and also traveled to Santiago de Compostela. She got to know the Ponte…nas ondas! experience up close and said that it was an experience that favors communication and language. When she received the invitation to write a composition for her 15th birthday, she confessed that she immersed herself in the brotherhood of Portuguese, in its origins, and a song emerged that tells the story of Galicia, Portugal, and the Bay. These elements are within the composition that she made “with great affection” for Ponte…nas ondas! and which she titled “Portugaliza”.
Margaret Menezes considered that the Ponte…nas ondas! project is very important and that it increasingly needs to open its participation to more schools, universities and people who can have access. According to Margareth Menezes, the very name of the project is “beautiful, very inspiring, cool”. This support was included in the nomination dossier of Ponte…nas ondas! to the register of good practices with intangible cultural heritage and which was registered on December 1, 2022 in Rabat. The video, along with other supports, can be viewed on the UNESCO registry:
https://ich.unesco.org/en/7c-register-01283#7.c.4
Margareth Menezes about Ponte…nas ondas!:
Maga’s photo in Galiza:
Ponte…nas ondas! and Brasil:
http://pontenasondas.org/ponte-no-brasil/?lang=pt-pt
