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Welcome to the
Home of Maltese Għana


Maltese għana (song), pronounced aana, the għ is silent, is the generalised term for the indigenous Maltese folk-singing which consists of quatrains, ideally extemporised, following a rhyme scheme of a-b-c-b, and sung to traditional tunes, generally accompanied by a number of guitars.

 

Introduction

This section of the website seeks to provide information on Maltese traditional folksong Għana in order to make it available to local and foreign researcher, and to all who wish to find more about the people who keep this tradition alive, the Maltese Folksingers and Guitarists.
 
This whole website was formally known as the "Homepage of Maltese Għana", but due to the word Għana being sometimes mistaken for the country of Ghana, and also due to the inclusion of other sections being added to the website, the name was then changed to its present name of allmalta.com.
 
On the 9th of August 1998, this website became the first ever website to broadcast Maltese language programmes over the Internet with an għana programme kindly donated by Super One Radio (Malta), followed two weeks later by a programme donated by SBS Radio (Australia). Own programmes were later introduced and continued to be heard on the Internet until September 2004 when due to the growing expense, and time needed to produce these programmes, I had to stop them.
 
Like the rest of the website, some articles in this section are written in Maltese whilst others in English. I hope you find this section both instructive and entertaining.

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