In the past and as a form of enjoying their spare time and holy days, people used to gather around places called ‘eiras’ (a place used to beat the cereal seeds out of the plants).
These meetings usually happened at sunset and full-moon evenings always being joyfully replete of traditional songs and games.
The people’s memory revives itself and, in a return to the roots mood, on the 21st March, 1997, a group of nine friends, children of the pitoresque town of Camacha, feeling the cultural gap that existed then, sharpened their sensibility to the idea of founding a band of traditional music. This group of friends adopted the name “Encontros da Eira” and set themselves to the goal of recovering traditional instrumental and vocal excerpts of the Autonomous Region of Madeira.
Camacha Town – Church’s place