Seiva

Seiva is folk music of Portuguese identity showing the vital force of rural orality and urbanity.
Seiva is a feminine look on the Portuguese soul, present in the work songs, in the pilgrimages, in the square drums and tambourines, ancient rhythms and songs of faith, with special emphasis on women who protect, welcome and know all evils. Women of immemorial ancestry, invoked in songs that transform faith into true healing acts. Joana Negrão incarnates each one of these women in her performance and gives herself to them with love and devotion in each song. Seiva finds in the traditional Portuguese female songs the root of its identity and gains even more echo in the percussions of Rita Nóvoa, who combines grace and strength with the drums that make the heart beat faster. Rhythms that time leaves behind but are reinvented in new existences and new textures.
Seiva also exists in the viola braguesa, in the cavaquinho and in the Portuguese bagpipes of Vasco Ribeiro Casais and looks forward to breaking new ground, mixing tradition with electronics and electricity without shame or purism.