Carl LeBlanc
American guitarist and banjo player Carl LeBlanc (New Orleans, 1955), Grammy winner for Down in New Orleans with The Blind Boys of Alabama, is a key figure in the city’s jazz scene. The only musician to have performed both with Sun Ra and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, LeBlanc is renowned for bridging avant-garde and traditional jazz. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, and Ellis Marsalis Jr., among others, and directed the Preservation Hall Junior Jazz and Heritage Band. Spanish banjo player and vocalist Carlos Childe (Monforte de Lemos, 1969) also shares a deep connection with New Orleans, reflected in his latest album Nola by Spain (2024), recorded with drummer Joe Lastie and supported by the Preservation Hall Foundation. The project reaffirms the cultural bond between Galicia and New Orleans, a relationship Childe continues to explore in his documentary series In Their Own Voices.
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Festivals
From Friday, 28 November, to Sunday, 5 January, visitors can enjoy the impressive Nativity scene created and installed by the craftsman José Uzal: more than 500 figures make up this display, which includes various scenes, moving pieces, and special lighting and sound effects.
A tour of artistic illumination through Paseo da Ferradura in Alameda Park.
At sunset, the Quintana becomes a canvas of stars, a Campus Stellae.
Christmas festival dedicated to the creative talent of artists, artisans, producers and entrepreneurs in Galicia: fashion design brands and accessories, handmade toys, jewelry and jewelry, illustration and stationery, decoration, ceramics, household objects...
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The “Xenerais da Ulla” is the most outstanding feature of the Ulla region’s traditional Carnival. It has been held in the surroundings of Santiago since the first half of the 19th century: the “Xenerais” (generals) ride on horseback, dressed in colourful military garments similar to those of that time, but they also include purely carnivalesque adornments, which the horses also wear.
