The bagpipe is an instrument that has its roots in Palmela. Moreover, Palmela is considered by researchers as the southernmost point of the country with this sound tradition. Through the groups of Piriadores dos Círios, it has maintained an uninterrupted secular activity in charity events, in arruadas, in popular festivals, in the Great Feast of Our Lady of Atalaia, ...
At the beginning of this century, in Pinhal Novo, the school of the Gaiteiros dos Bardoada (Bardoada Pipers) - the Sarrafo Group was created, and dozens of new musicians have come out of it. The privileged relationship that the territory has established with the Portuguese Association for the Study and Dissemination of the Bagpipe represents the dynamics between this territory and the instrument that led to the organization of the first Gaiteiros (Pipers) National Meeting in 2001.
In recent years, the Bagpipe Pedagogical Suitcase has been created, two short documentaries have been edited, and the exhibition «Sound Landscape - the Bagpipe» (from March to October 2019, held at the Museum of Mechanical Music) has been presented. They are all part of a monthly agenda that intends to invite not only pipers, but also new audiences to get in touch with this instrument and the world associated with it.
Access the results achieved so far by exploring the following links:
- Documentary «Gaiteiros do Círio dos Olhos de água»
- Documentary «Percursos da Gaita de Fole no concelho de Palmela»
- Interview to «Joaquim Felismino – Gaiteiro»
- Bagpipe Pedagogical Suitcase «A Gaita de Fole»
- Pedagogical Suitcase «Gigantes, cabeçudos e outras coisas do arco da velha»
- Article «Percursos da Gaita de fole no concelho de Palmela» in Boletim + Museum number 19, 2018
- Gaiteiros Bardoada - Grupo do Sarrafo – Formação