Tejedor is a folk music group from

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, Spain, consisting originally of three siblings (Jose, Javier and Eva Tejedor). Eva left the band in 2010, being replaced by Silvia Quesada on vocals. Tejedor's members play traditional Asturian styles of music using traditional instruments such as

bagpipes Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, N ...

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accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

s and

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s. Tejedor has become known on the international

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scene, the two brothers of the group winning on several occasions the McCallan bagpipe awards at the Inter Celtic Music Festival in

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, France. Their first album, ''Texedores De Suaños'', was produced by Phil Cunningham and features musicians like Michael McGoldrick, Duncan Chisholm, James McKintosh and Kepa Junkera.

Discography

* Texedores de Suaños (1999) * Llunáticos (Aris Música/Resistencia, 2003) * Música Na Maleta (2007) * Positivu (2011) The discography comes from "World Music Central" (see below).

External links

Official Page

National Geographic listing

World Music Central listing

Tejedor in Celtic Connections 2007 (BBC Scotland)
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