With Doña Onetti, the Para Festival takes over Rio

From the editor

Production from Pará in Brazil is highlighted. At the Museo do Pontal, in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday the 23rd and Sunday the 24th are the days of the Pará Festival, with many attractions related to the culture of the state, including a performance by the Queen of the Carimbo Chamegado, Doña Onetti. Aimed at popular culture, the museum also hosts the itinerary of the 58th Ocupação do Itaú Cultural Exhibition, an exhibition dedicated to the singer from Pará, with extensive material on her life and career.

In addition to the author of “Jamborana,” the artist’s granddaughter, Josefana Rodriguez, will participate in a workshop on “Contos de Dona Onete.” The exhibition will be on display for free until February 25 at the Pontal Museum, sponsored by the Center for Performing Arts, Literature and Music of the Itau Cultural Foundation.

In this excerpt from Ocupação Dona Onete at the Rio Museum, the public will be able to learn more about her through photographs, posters from performances she has given around the world, documents and manuscripts of songs such as “Banho de Cheiro”, “Lua Morena”, “Jamburana”, “Sonhos de Adolescente”, “Feitiço Caboclo”, among others, as well as audio and video clips with testimonials, performances and interviews.

Donna Onetti says she is very happy with the stage she is in and reaping the fruits of her work. “It means a lot to be recognized, especially since I am 84 years old. “It is also special because it brings my granddaughter to share a bit of our history,” she says, whose work was recently recognized by the Legislative Assembly of Pará as an intangible heritage of Pará.

I promised there would be a great show this Saturday night. “I count on the presence of the people here in Rio, who I know are my fans, and I also know that the people of Pará support me very much, in addition to my health, for my success, which is our success, because success is not mine, but belongs to all the people of Pará who like to be told about Their land with flavor and a smile. This is how Doña Onetti talks about everything that is beautiful. I give it more flavor this way, with my smile, and speaking in our dialect, which is wonderful. I will sing “Meu curió Singer”, which refers to a bird from the Amazon, which is one of the songs on the disc My new CD.

The construction of the Ocupação Dona Onete project came as a surprise in the singer’s life, and she says she was amazed by the result.

“Suppose I was already storing all my things, and time was passing. Suddenly the Itaú Cultural Company appeared and wanted to know my story. Thank God I still had a lot of things to show, because a lot of things had already been lost. I also had the opportunity to show the history of many From the people from Pará, in a way to spread the culture of the state. When I saw myself, with all this history, from the hymn of Our Lady of Nazareth, from Nosa Nazinha, singing and they filmed me, I swear to you that I felt that I had accomplished everything there.

After everything has been photographed and verified, the artist participates in the continuation of the work started by the Itaú Cultural Foundation in March. “I am here at the Museu do Pontal, to once again perform a show that continues the Itau cultural project. And it’s not just me, there are a lot of people in Pará who still need to be shown. The story is not just my story, the story is our story. The story is ours,” says the singer. All residents of Pará.

There are many people from Pará represented in the Pará Festival, in addition to Doña Onetti. Among them, Mestre Damasceno, who is 68 years old, continues to be active in Carembo, with his group Nativos Marajoara, and will be teaching a workshop as well as speaking to the public about Carembo. And also guitarist and percussionist Felix Rubato, as well as several artists Ghost, who will present the performance set “Mata e Come”, with cheesy flash, guitar, cumbia, lambada, calypso and Caribbean rhythms, while projecting images that explore the oceanic worldviews of the Amazon .

There is also the Flores da Alegría Folkloric Cultural Group, with a carimbo dance performance from a women’s social project in the municipality of Nilopolis, and the Karimbabi and Carimbo da Piedra groups, the latter with Brazilian legends to talk about nature conservation. There is also a session of short films by directors from Pará, in a program specifically aimed at children, with “A Turma do Jambu” (Boitatá Episode), “Contos Mirabolantes – O Olho do Mapinguari”, and “As Icambiabas” (Lagartas Episode). Boreais), and “Os Dynamicos” (Monsters of Pets and Lambada do Fantasma episodes).