Cultural Agent Guarantees More Initiatives in Giro-Giro Hall

19 July 2011

Luanda — Lomelino Batalha “Lolo”, owner of the former Giro-Giro functions hall, located in Maçal ward, in Luanda, on Monday here guaranteed that as long as there is health and support he will keep organising live music shows, aimed at making people always remember the venue that in the decades of 1960 to 1970 promoted great names of the country’s urban music.

Speaking to the press, Lomelino Batalha, who is also the manager of the Gajajeira cultural centre, said that it was a good experience to bring together in his house several musicians who in the past had enlivened shows held in his venue.

On the occasion, he explained that the institutive, which was promoted by the public RNA radio, served to remember cultural clubs that were famous back in colonial times such as Maxinde, Uniases, Ginásio, Desportivo de São Paulo, Marítimo da Ilha, among other spaces, as well as meet old acquaintances.

The Giro-Giro functions hall, according to Lomelino Batalha, is a cultural venue that worked until May 1975.

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