Podcast PROGRAMA LA JOTA

Programa La Jota is a weekly gathering place for Navarra's jota music, folklore, customs, and town memory. Its center is not just performance, but continuity. Songs are introduced with the care usually given to family photographs, then connected to singers, festivals, schools, romerias, anniversaries, and the towns that shaped them. The show moves slowly enough for those details to matter. Tudela appears often, but the map widens to Ujue, Castejon, Funes, Milagro, Buñuel, Burgi, Rincon de Soto, Artajona, and beyond. One episode may begin with San Fermin music because the calendar is nearing July. Another turns toward San Anton, San Sebastian, and the auroras sung in Navarra localities. The interviews have the feeling of a local radio conversation among people who share references and respect the tradition. Guests speak about civic work, schools, religious observances, contests, and the emotional force of jota in ordinary life. Laura Casanova brings a young Jotera's presence into a program also rich with archive recordings. Manolo Fernandez helps recall the Antonio Garcia contest and the ties between Rioja, Navarra, and Aragon. Javier Lopez speaks with force about the Romeria del Cristo, faith, charity, and criticism in public life. Alberto Urrea remembers Cris Esparza Urzua with tenderness, placing her dedication to La Jota Navarra inside a broader community of singers and followers. Jacobo Roura appears as the kind of aficionado the show values: not necessarily a singer or composer, but someone who carries names, records, and memories forward. Musical selections from Voces Navarras, Voces de los Burgos, Flores de Navarra, and others give the conversations a living archive around them. The result is warm, specific, and deeply regional. It favors names over generalities. It lets a contest, a procession, or a remembered album become evidence of a culture that still has people looking after it. Listeners looking for slick overview will find it leisurely. Listeners who want Navarra heard through its songs, devotions, places, and remembered voices will understand its value quickly.