"It's been a big surprise," he says. Artur Blasco (Barcelona, ​​1933) before ordering a carajillo (a coffee with anise liqueur) at the Laie bookstore café in Barcelona. The surprise is the Enderrock Honorary Award, which he will receive this Thursday in Girona. "I'm very happy, because an award like this paves the way for those of us with projects," says the founder of the Meeting with the Accordionists of the Pyrenees in Arsèguel (Alt Urgell) in 1976. Because yes, because at 92 years old, Blasco, "the most outstanding researcher and popularizer of the folk music of the Catalan Pyrenees", as the magazine confirms EnderrockThe hero behind the revival of the diatonic accordion still has projects in the works. For example, the twelfth volume ofOn foot along the paths of the songbookwhich is "about to go to print" and a concert with accordionist Cati Plana at the Tradicionàrius Artisan Center on April 17. All the fieldwork for the songbook began in 1965 in the Pyrenees and is "digitized and stored for public consultation" at the Department of Culture of the Generalitat. "There are 1,535 songs, from 417 singers and informants, from 244 villages," he explains while stirring his coffee.