Bastoners de Malla, a Catalan dance group

Bastoners de Malla, founded in 2004, is a Catalan traditional dance group presenting old Catalan dances called "Ball de Bastons". These traditional dances relate to rural experiences and farmers’ life in the middle part of Catalonia. The dancers perform with sticks and bells. The men wear white shirts and trousers, red sashes, scarfs and bands with bells attached to their legs, Catalan sandals called espardenyes and Mediterranean straw hats called palloles. The women wear white shorts, flowered skirts, aprons, traditional ballet shoes, scarfs on the head and Mediterranean straw hats. The musicians plays the Catalan traditional whistle, the taborpipe called „flabiol i tambor“in Catalan and the Catalan bagpipe, called „Sac de Gemecs“.