Traditional
Mnarja evening
The annual Mnarja folk evening was held on Wednesday at Nadur’s pjazzetta. Great food and good company mixed up for an enjoyable evening. There were also some of Malta’s best entertainers, including Malta’s Eurovision entry Lynn Chircop, Joe and Veronica (id-Dulli), the Greenfields, the Cameo Folk Dancers and the Mnarja Folk Group. A Peruvian band played a number of its ethnic songs, while the Maltese ghannejja did it the Maltese way! A Dutch TV station also filmed a good part of the show to include it in one of its special documentaries. The Mnarja folk evening is rooted in history. Hundreds of years ago people from all over Malta used to mark Mnarja with a night of good food and good music as Daniel Bartolo finds out in his feature.
photos by Mark Azzopardi
