Rabeca
Michael Silvers, fazendo doutorado em
Etnomusicologia na UCLA (University
of California,Los Angeles)viajou para
Fortaleza e em todo estado do Ceará
pesquisou a nossa cultura popular.
Publicou no blog várias postagens com
os resultados das pesquisas.
Estou postando a que mostra o processo
de fabricação da Rabeca de Cabaça.
Making Calabash Fiddles
Posted Thursday, February 4, 2010
by Michael Silvers - in Brazil
Francisco Ferreira de Freitas Filho, better
known as Di Freitas, is a conservatory
trained musician who’s played in orchestras
around Brazil. In 2002, he settled down in
Juazeiro do Norte, a city in the interior of
Ceará known for its rich culture, and
became enamored with the sound of the
rabeca, a kind of folk fiddle.
When he began teaching music to local
children, many of them couldn’t afford
to buy instruments, so he decided to
teach them how to make their own rabecas.
Di Freitas recently came to Fortaleza to
lead a week-long workshop at the Banco
do Nordeste, where we spent our days
making rabecas de cabaça (rabecas
made from calabash gourds). Watch the
video to see how it’s done and to hear
Di Freitas playing the rabeca de cabaça
in the song “Segura o Coco” from his CD,
O Alumioso.

Tags: Ceará, Di Freitas, Francisco Ferreira de Freitas Filho, Juazeiro do Norte, rabeca