Graciela Flores and Ruben Soifer (irish flute, tin whistle, recorder, crumhorn, lute, jew’s arp) began with "Tocando el Aire" in 2001. In October 2003 they where awarded by Revista Celtica (Celtic Magazine, Italy) including one of his recordings in the CD which accompanied the Italian edition. Since then Luis Orias Diz (guitar, lute), Mariano Gora (derbake, udu, bodhran, box and other percussions) and Maru Aponte (vocals) gathered the group.
Their CD "En el Bosque sin Retorno" (In the Forest of no Return) was considered the best celtic CD of 2004 in the Spanish website Iregua; and two tracks of it were included in the compilation CD issued by Revista Irlanda in May 2005.
For long years Ruben has been playing medieval and renaissance music whit period instruments, recording three CDs. He has performed in the most important theatres of Argentina, and toured to France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Panama, Venezuela, Uruguay and Guatemala.
As we read in an Arthurian Legend, riding through the forest Merlin’s disciple Guineban ran into a group of young men and women dancing in the woods. Whishing to impress one of the ladies, Guineban tested his magic: the youngsters would keep dancing forever until the best knight of all times arrived to free them. Since then, it was a called The Forest of no Return. Do you dare visit it?
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