Milladoiro

{{More citations needed|date=May 2012}} [[File:Milladoiro en Pontevedra (14735376580).jpg|thumb|Milladoiro in Pontevedra, 2014]] '''Milladoiro''' (English: "cairn") is a traditional Celtic-Galician music group that records and performs music with roots in Galicia, Spain. Members of the group have also composed and recorded their own pieces, in the style of Galician music. Often compared to The Chieftains of Ireland—with whom they have shared the stage and recording studio—, Milladoiro is among the world's top Celtic music groups, and is one of the most successful traditional/folk groups to come out of the Iberian Peninsula, as a whole.<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Qe4cAAAAQBAJ&dq=Made+in+Spain%3A+Studies+in+Popular+Music&pg=PT4|title= Made in Spain: Studies in Popular Music|publisher= Taylor & Francis|year= 2013|isbn= 9781136460050|accessdate= 21 April 2018}}</ref>

== Biography == In 1978, Rodrigo Romaní and Antón Seoane released an album named "Milladoiro", on which they were joined by Xosé V. Ferreirós, then credited as a guest artist. The album received a critic's award the same year.<ref>{{cite book| first1= Silvia| last1= Martinez| first2= Hector| last2= Fouce| year= 2013| title= Made in Spain: Studies in Popular Music|isbn= 978-0-415-50640-3}}</ref>

Ferreirós, along with Nando Casal and Moncho García Rei, from his group Faíscas do Xiabre, invited Romaní and Seoane as guests in their next album.

The fusion of the two groups, with the addition of the flautist Xosé A. Méndez and the violinist Laura Quintillán, constituted the foundation of Milladoiro, which swept the Galician musical scene of the 20th century.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the band, a compilation album, ''XXV'', was released in 2005.

In 2006, Chris Thile covered their song "O Santo De Polvora" on his album ''How to Grow a Woman from the Ground''.

== Line-up == '''Actual members''' * Xosé Ferreirós: bagpipes, mandolin, tin whistle, bouzouki, percussion (since 1978) * Nando Casal: bagpipes, clarinet, tin whistle, bagpipes (since 1978) * Moncho García Rei: bodhrán, percussion (since 1978) * Harry.c : violin (since 1998) * Manú Conde: guitars, bouzouki (since 2000) * Manuel Riveiro: keyboards, accordion (since 2013)

== Discography == *1979 ''A Galicia de Maeloc'' *1980 ''O Berro Seco'' *1982 ''Milladoiro 3'' *1984 ''Solfafria'' *1986 ''Galicia no país das Maravillas'' *1987 ''Divinas palabras'' *1989 ''Castellum Honesti'' *1991 ''Galicia No Tempo'' *1993 ''A Via Láctea'' *1993 ''A Xeometría da Alma'' *1994 ''Iacobus Magnus'' *1995 ''Gallaecia Fulget'' *1995 ''As fadas de estraño nome'' *1999 ''No confín dos verdes castros'' *1999 ''Auga de Maio'' *1999 ''Cabana de Bergantiños'' *2002 ''O niño do sol'' *2002 ''Adobrica Suite'' *2005 ''Milladoiro album'' *2006 ''Unha estrela por guîa'' *2008 ''A quinta das lágrimas'' *2016 ''Milladoiro en Ortigueira (CD+DVD)'' *2018 ''Atlántico'' *2022 Cantiga(s) de Amigos

==See also== * Galician traditional music

==References== {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.milladoiro.gal/|Milladoiro official website}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/19970721184959/http://www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/~boris/galgroups/node2.html First recorded fansite] {{Commonscat}}

Category:Musicians from Galicia (Spain) Category:Celtic music groups Category:Galician musical groups Category:Galician traditional music groups