The year was 1989 and, through a private civil initiative Vecinal tentábase recover never forgotten the joy of recovering a band in Ribadeo. Thus began the formation of a committee managing to create an Academy of Music and attracting partners and affiliates with a mass social response ribadense. Thus also get the contacts to achieve a teacher-director. Contáctase Hernán Naval for the musical training of associates to reach the level necessary to create a band and at the same time, it is to this end the association "amateur music ". On January 25 the year 1992, nearly a year ahead of schedule, with forty and musician aged between ten and fifty, ateigados of nerves under the baton of Fernando Naval, shows the band Ribadeo, the parish church with a program that xuntaba "tradition and modernity" and will achieve a resounding success in Ribadeo area. "Today, not think the saints" told some unofficial chroniclers ribadenses it was said that day in church. In the following year and by virtue of an agreement signed between the Municipality of Excmo Ribadeo and association "amateur of Music, the band would be called Municipal Band Ribadeo.

(Identified with Troulos festive, the popular bands are still affected a little, the point a damóclito index: Diana and dawn between nine and twelve, a procession of one, sitting Vermouth (before missile parts), at two, show (?) At seven , verbena ten o'clock to three o'clock in the morning ... A blast!. Hernán Naval. Galicia.Xaneiro La Voz de 92)

Maybe just by checking other musical lines in an environment where they weighed more traditions, and try to dignify the bands as a cultural tool, as stubbornly standing its director, the unorthodox to the municipal band and their musical lines that approached the music for audiences and tastes of different ages were on the rise and Hernán Naval around your work, able to articulate the resurgence of the band of music from nothing, to convert a powerful training with over eighty musicians who became a party Symphony motivating the players, parents and public and streamlining the overall music scene ribadense. We also did a great job at the School of Music, attracting hundreds of children and forming and supporting all the groups that were born under your breast (Children Band, smuggling, String Orchestra, Contrabandiña, ...).

Thus, under his baton, the band scored ribadense landmarks such as the publication of a compact 97. In this disc, which colleitou a major sales success and critical part of the prestigious Cuban pianist Antonio Cheese uz, playing the Great going Spianata and Polish in E flat major by Chopin, accompanied by the band. The group's director, Professor Fernando Naval, carried out the transcription of the orchestral part. This recording, partially performed live, is a good sample of the unorthodox conduct the band in his short but intense career: classical character Symphonic, soundtrack, new music for orchestra, brass and percussion ... always from a concept of activity bandística of character education, both for the public as to the band itself. Also with Naval Hernán, the band performed in the main cities of Galicia and Galician geography and theaters in various parts of the Spanish State (Madrid, Barcelona, Murcia, Oviedo, Aranjuez, etc. ..) and also in Portugal (Loures, Lisbon, ...) . Well acted and made recordings on RTVG and Spanish Television and had almost finalized the recording of material for two albums ...

On May 17, 2001 and end point of recording two CDs, the band suffered a major blow by the death of whom had been his creator, director and principal driver, Hernan Naval. Hard blow not only for the band, in particular, but also for the world at large and even bandístico nationally, both for the world of music education and music schools. The multiple facets of Fernando Naval arregrista as composer, writer, organizer, poet, writer, political and music educator, left a great void. To end recording in progress, the Municipal Band Ribadeo collaboration with Marcel van Bree (director prestigious personal friend of Ferdinand) who voluntarily provided to collaborate with the project unfinished.

Today Ribadeo Municipal Band continues to exist under the management of "amateurs of Music in partnership with Excmo Ribadeo Prefecture. At this time passed through the hands of various directors such as Marcel van Bree, Mariano Rivas, J. Casa Luis Alvarez and Bernardo Mendez. Currently, under the baton of its current director Filipe Lourenço da Silva Cruz holds an annual schedule of concerts in stable Ribadeo programs including monographs (film music, religious music, etc). And others such as Christmas ("Here as in Vienna), have long been part of traditional cultural events in town. Also the Band Festival organized annually since 1995 in July or August.