Departament de Promoció Econòmica i Desenvolupament Local (Department of Economic Promotion and Local Development)
President Galmés highlighted the parallelism between the musical group and Mallorcan olive oil in the preservation of ‘our traditions and culture from generation to generation’.
The Consell de Mallorca and the DO Oli de Mallorca have distinguished the Pitxorines music group with the Gota d’Oli 2024, an award presented at a ceremony held this Thursday at the Raixa public estate in Bunyola.
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The Consell de Mallorca awards the Gota d’Oli 2024 prize to the group ‘Pitxorines’
The award ceremony, now in its 18th year, was led by the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, accompanied by the councillor for Agriculture, Fisheries and the Environment, Joan Simonet; the councillor for Economic Promotion and Local Development, Pilar Amate; and the president of the DO Oli de Mallorca, Joan Mayol. Mallorcan olive oil producers from the origin designation also attended the event.
The president of the Consell highlighted ‘the parallelism that exists between the musical group and Mallorcan olive oil in the preservation of our traditions from generation to generation: the Pitxorines through music and song and, in the case of the olive oil producers, through careful and painstaking work throughout the production process’.
During her speech, Councillor Pilar Amate congratulated the nine women who form part of the Pitxorines musical project ‘for recovering the traditional songbook and, in this way, actively contributing to preserving our traditions and our culture’. Amate is also referred to as ‘the high quality of Mallorcan olive oil, which is unique in the world due to the characteristics conferred by the geographical environment in which it is produced’.
The Gota d’Oli is a distinction that has a long history, since its creation in 2006. The Consell de Mallorca and the Oli de Mallorca designation of origin recognise entities, groups or individuals from different areas of society for their contribution to the dissemination of Mallorca and its culture, to which the olive grove and the consumption of Mallorcan olive oil are linked.
Pitxorines, Gota d’Oli 2024
Pitxorines is the musical project with which nine young Mallorcan women have brought the popular Mallorcan songbook back to the present day, presenting it in a fresh, innovative way with their own arrangements that, in turn, draw from different styles such as traditional, jazz and classical music.
The good public acceptance of the new group’s proposal has taken them to stages all over the island and Catalonia, and they have received critical and public recognition for their first album, Un so qui no es gasta, as the best folk album of the Balearic Islands in 2024.
From this capacity to rework traditional sounds to offer them from a new point of view, we find a certain parallelism with the task of the producers of Mallorcan olive oil in that, just as the Pitxorines do with songs that have been passed down from generation to generation, the oil producers incorporate new technologies and practices to be able to continue offering an exquisite product that is so closely linked to our territory, our landscape and culture, such as olive oil.
Pitxorines: Aina Tramullas (vocals), Maria Adrover (flabiol and tamborino, xeremies, flute, vocals), Rosa Garcias (flute and vocals), Maria Antònia Gili (flugel), Sinéad Cormican (violin and vocals), Carmela Cristos (cello), Masé Jara (double bass and vocals), Sílvia Rechac (piano), Bel Miquel (percussion).