Just about anywhere else, young kids learn musical instruments to play in a rock band – not so in Murtas, where they are having classes to become wandering minstrels, or troubadours.

Well, let’s not get carried away. The village has opened an Escuela de Trovo, where they will learn to play traditional cord instruments to be able to perform typical Alpujarra folk music.

Altogether 24 kids are enrolled, sixteen of whom will be learning traditional dances, six will be learning to play the said instruments and two are learning how to sing in verse; i.e., recount a story in verse.

According to the Mayor, Cecilio Martin, there has always been a tradition for this type of music in the village, and he doesn’t want to see it die out.