Joana Negrão

Seiva begin their career in 2014 with the aim of making a musical project based entirely on Portuguese oral tradition music. Heirs of the extinct Dazkarieh, Vasco Ribeiro Casais and Joana Negrão brought to Seiva their desire to further explore traditional Portuguese music. They wanted to create a group based on the premise of a much more inward-looking project for less explored rural Portugal. A Portuguese soul present in work songs, pilgrimages, adufes and tambourines, songs of faith and instruments such as cavaquinho, viola braguesa and bagpipes. Using everything and mixing it with their original themes, with electronics and electricity, without shame or purism, bringing all this rurality into the urban habitat of the group members and trying to renew this culture and show itself to the world.

In their first album, they explored Beira-Baixa deepest musical tradition, mixing it with their own experiences and experiences of their original themes. During the same year they perform a series of concerts in halls and festivals in Portugal performing live in trio, showing the songs of the album and proving that live Portuguese culture echoes in the ears of the public.

In May 2016, FolkHebst is nominated for one of the most important European Folk Awards that has already won names such as Garmarna, Berrogüetto, Amsterdam Klezmer Band, Dreamers‘Circus and others.

Seiva, a trio that only uses traditional instruments and combines them with electricity and electronics, make the Portuguese roots take on a whole new meaning these days.