Aula-Museo Paco Diez

Classroom-Museum is a dream of many years come true thanks to the hard work and determination of María José San José and my after devoting much of our life learning and dissemination of our extraordinary Traditional Culture, Maria Jose from  Classroom of Culture of Adult Education in Valladolid and through my concerts with different formations and programs worldwide.

This is an absolutely private and independent initiative of any official body, to avoid that the "bread for today and hunger for tomorrow", so common in these times when it is too dependent on the whims of politicians in power ... you know ... while falling to hold the money ... ... and no salary at month end missing ... and without the project work in question, it seems that life is already solved ...

For us, passionate and irreducible Iberian, no known political affiliation, we have been able to focus freely and are now proud and delighted that such autonomy ... What if it's hard? Well of course I do ... Imagine ... (two points)!:

Purchase of land, paperwork and indecent bureaucracy, geotechnical tastings, multiple projects and multiple licenses, emptied of more than 200,000 tons of earth, grounded, construction of about 1,200 square meters and loss of patience and thousands of neurons with masons and various trades, with honorable exceptions, for another 18 months; then gives content furniture and space, advertised in newspapers, radio, television and sending emails and waiting for the first visitors arrive, pay your entry means ... and waited ... and waited ... for our first visitors were, several weeks later, two Australian Melbourne ... the beginnings of which are not prophets in the land have always been tough, we know, it fit and we move convinced that better times.

Added to the own obligations Classroom-Museum, the required daily and monthly maintenance (cleaning, elevator, electricity, etc ...), in addition to the very close relationship that unites us with the bank to have a "wonderful and shared mortgage" but with health and work we will move forward, trying to make our project a benchmark required for true lovers of traditional organology IBERIAN.

In another vein and after too many years assisting in Spain to the misuse of Traditional Culture, by irresponsible, immoral tipejos and unscrupulous as a weapon between brothers, for those their current privileges of which well enjoy in comfortable Taifa Kingdoms, Maria Jose and I decided to spend our Aula-Museum to IBÉRICOS INSTRUMENTS, for this time, rather than narrow and impoverish, expand and enrich us with the inclusion of our so-called "neighboring country" for Portugal is quite simply our "sister country" that many of this part of the "line" can learn ... '' and much !!!! Those who do not yet know the generous and hospitable land, going to shop around there, ask a good bacalhau and if they stay hungry continue with good vellum or cordeiro (bread nor speak ...) and then attend any of its diverse and rich traditional cultural manifestations ... after this sure repeat ... so I did thanks to friends like the Galandum, Raul Tomé and Jorge Lira, among others, as I was at home there.

To achieve our collection of instruments and emerging masks have received invaluable support from many friends as Luis Angel Payno and Juanma Sanchez, Anton Varela and Raquel Fontes, Kike Pérez, Benito Cabrera, Claude Romero, Laurent Tixier, Güicho, Pedro Cabrera, Alberto Pérez, José Luis Robles, Toni Sintes, Oscar Velasco, Luis Sarabia, Luis Garcia, Isaias Torres, Jon Ander Madariaga, Anton Bretos, Aitor Serrano, Iñaki Zorrilla, Alberto Artal, Ibon García, Angel Velasco, Juan Rodriguez, Luis Miguel Novas and Manuel Marcos, Paulo Preto and Paulo Meirinhos, Diana Candy, Adiafa, Raul Tome, Jorge Lira, Paulo Tojeira, Victor Felix and Mario Estanislau, Bruno BERCA, Ricardo Santos, Antonio Pinto, Xavier Blanco, Xavi Macaya, Toni Torregrossa, Jaime Vidal Fernando Gomarín, Fernando GABARRUS, Ramiro Gonzalez, Angel Martinez, Carlos Parrado Carral and family, Vanessa Redondo, Enrique Holgueras, Oscar Calvo, Socorro Zalama, Hnos. Santillana Escudero, family Head Diez, Pablo Garcia, Bernardo Sanz, AC Vacceos and many other friends (surely has forgotten us more than one ...).

For that, our Aula-Museum is open to anyone who wants to come good unhurried to share with us the priceless musical heritage left us by our elders.

SEE YOU SOON! WE WAIT FOR YOU!

Paco Díez