The 'Colla del Portitxol' celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special concert

Next Saturday, November 30, the Colla de Dolçaines i Percussió of the Grup de Danses Portitxol de Xàbia celebrates its 20th anniversary with a concert at the Church of St. Bartholomew. This celebration is joined by traditional singer With a long career in Valencian music, Pep Gimeno Botifarra.

The concert will be at 21: 30 hours with free admission and a special night will be offered to the entire audience.

Poster concert 20 years of the Colla del Portitxol

As explained by the Danses Portitxol Group, Saturday's concert will be "single" in terms of format, since arrangements of Pep Gimeno's most emblematic songs have been created for the occasion "Botifarra" to adapt them to colla of dulzainas. The guitarist Pere Ródenas will complete the group of interpreters.

The Colla de Dolçainers i Percussió del Portitxol thus closes an intense year in which it has celebrated its two decades of life. He has participated in almost all the festive and cultural events of Xàbia, accompanying with his music innumerable parades: from Reyes to fiestas of the Nazarene, Sant Joan, Corpus, Loreto, Moors and Christians... As well as acts of the Grup de Dances Portitxol, of which it is part.

Some stand out as the organization for the first time in Xàbia de 'The Crusade of Corpus', several concerts and the recording of the disc 'Cançons de La Marina'.

Regarding Pep Gimeno Botifarra, it is the reference in traditional Valencian song. It has more than a dozen records with all possible formats, of which more than 40.000 copies have been sold. He has acted on numerous occasions in Xàbia, always at the hands of the Danses Portitxol Group, a long friendship that led him to collaborate with the album 'Cançons de La Marina', performing Uncle Cruañes' cant de batre, which can also be enjoyed this Saturday at the concert.