Caramelles are popular songs typical of Catalonia and Andorra, sung at Easter to celebrate the good new of the resurrection of Jesus, but also have a profane character. The singers (called caramellaires) are groups of singers who go out to sing in houses and farmhouses on Holy Saturday evening or Easter and Easter Monday mornings. They can be accompanied by various instruments. In the past, they collected eggs or money that people gave them with which they did a collective meal, basically egg-based, the same day, in the afternoon, or a few days later. The custom has many variants: in some places the singers danced between songs.[1][2]
- ^ "Festa de les caramelles". Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Enciclopèdia Catalana. (in Catalan)
- ^ "Caramelles". Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Enciclopèdia Catalana. (in Catalan)