A band from Arbeca prepares a transhumance of concerts to the Pyrenees

ArbecaThe Arbeca-based punk-folk band Pork Chop Boys has launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring a crowdfunding campaign to life, Trans(in)humància, a 190-kilometer itinerant cultural project. The band members will undertake this journey on foot in the fall, from their hometown to the Shepherds' School in Enviny (Pallars Sobirà), following ancient transhumance routes and performing concerts at each stage of the journey. For ten days, the group will walk accompanied by three horses and a donkey that will carry the necessary equipment for the route.

The Trans(in)humància

is conceived as a collective experience and an act of reclaiming the rural world. The concerts will take place in squares, corrals, and community spaces in villages and micro-villages that are usually outside cultural circuits. “We want to show that culture can also walk slowly, take root in the territory, and generate real encounters between people,” explain the band.

The trek will be documented in an audiovisual film that will capture the landscape, stories, and living memory of the transhumance routes. The project aims to generate a cultural return that goes beyond concerts and can later reach festivals, educational centers, and cultural spaces. The Arbeca residents expect to raise approximately 4,400 euros through the crowdfunding campaign, which will be used to cover the basic expenses of the project, especially the logistics of the trek and the care of the animals, in addition to audiovisual documentation and communication.

Pork Chop Boys are a folk band from Arbeca formed by six musicians who combine instruments such as the banjo, harmonica, washboard, or washtub bass with lyrics and imagery linked to the rural world. In recent years, they have performed at festivals and on stages throughout the territory with their first album,

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