Caruaru marks regional day Artists recall folk culture

Jun 1957

The complete PrefTV Caruaru tribute marks October 8 Northeasterners' Day through puppetry, cordel, music, the fair and clay art. Mestre Sebá reflects on migration, hardship and living folk heritage. José Urbano credits Northeastern workers in São Paulo and describes a 2009 law creating the October 8 observance, calling it a state measure on air. The narration profiles 98-year-old Onildo Almeida, says A Feira de Caruaru turned 70 this year and was recorded by Luiz Gonzaga. Almeida recalls Gonzaga seeking his city-history song Capital do Agreste, recording it and helping it become nationally known, while recalling prior contact through Rádio Difusora. The report follows Vitalino's intergenerational clay-art legacy through an unidentified family interview and returns to Sebá's welcome. It gives no exact recording or first-meeting date; narration's anniversary and the historian's state attribution remain the source's claims.

Onildo Almeida recalls Luiz Gonzaga seeking his city-history song Capital do Agreste, rerecording it and helping it become nationally known. He describes the Caruaru narrative and their encounter, with earlier Rádio Difusora contact as context. The feature also recalls A Feira de Caruaru and its narrator's seventieth-anniversary claim. The identifiable Gonzaga record is dated by its June 1957 publication; exact session and first meeting remain undated.