Sung words and musical tradition unite in an intimate evening dedicated to memory and traditional coplas in Donostia. 🎶📚

The Literaktum festival hosts this special performance where Xabier Amuriza and Agus Barandiaran bring together music, verses, and life stories at Lugaritz.

🎶 Literaktum: Xabier Amuriza & Agus Barandiaran

📅 November 13, 2026

🕐 19:30

📍 Sala Imanol Larzabal (Lugaritz), Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ €15

📖 Music, memory, and coplas

In this performance, Xabier Amuriza and Agus Barandiaran fuse music and traditional coplas, delving into the meaning and essence of 85 compositions. The verses serve as snapshots of everyday memories: snow on the mountain, the neighborhood donkey, or rural life experiences.

Amuriza grew up in a world shaped by weekly traditional gatherings (romerías) that his grandmother held in front of the farmhouse, tambourine in hand and singing to get neighbors dancing. It was both a festive gathering and a way of life supported by selling food and drink.

🎶 A lifetime of oral tradition

Having known these romerías from home, Amuriza has spent his life researching and exploring the stories behind those sung verses. Alongside musician Agus Barandiaran, he looks back on his life through the coplas he has gathered and composed over the past decades.

✨ A touching journey through traditional song and living memory.