⚠️ This festival is recorded as discontinued.
🗓️ When?
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No date recorded — please check with the organiser.
- Founded
- 1971
📍 Where?
- Town
- Canet de Mar
- Country
- Spain
- How precise?
- coordinate of the town or municipality
This position is the town's, not the festival ground's.
ℹ️ Details
- Status
- discontinued
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📖 Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
The Sis Hores de Cançó in Canet de Mar was a mass festival of Catalan singing in a time when Catalan, as a language and as a culture, was somehow persecuted by the Spanish Francoist dictatorship. The embryo of this festival can be found in an event that Agrupament Escolta dels Pioners from Canet de Mar organized in the local tennis club court in August 1969. Their leader was Joan Ramon Mainat, brother of Josep Maria Mainat, one of the three members of a hugely popular Catalan band called La Trinca. Most of the greatest Catalan singers involved in the struggle to gain acknowledgment of Catalan as an official language performed there: Lluís Llach, Ovidi Montllor i Francesc Pi de la Serra. Attendance was about 500 people. In April 1970 they organized another concert, which gathered more people.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article „Sis Hores de Cançó“ (en.wikipedia.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.