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The 21th Habano Festival and the fourth Salsa Festival attract the Mexican singer-songwriter Armando Manzanero, who says he admires the island for his music, joy and strength.
This is the second time that I have the pleasure of being here, even though I was raised in a very close place, in Yucatan, said the author of iconic themes such as Somos novios and Nada personal. Manzanero attended the opening gala of the Salsa Festival, held in the Metropolitan Park of Havana, venue of the event until Feb. 24.
There he arrived to greet the local singer Hayla María Mompié, who recently published an album with 11 songs by the Mexican to which he incorporated the Cuban-like tone of his salsa.
During the show, Hayla -as he is known in the artistic world- left the planned repertoire to interpret Adoro y Huele a peligro, two other paradigmatic themes of Manzanero.
At the discretion of this teacher, salsa music does not change much between Venezuela, Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Everything is tropical and everything has a charm and an enormous talent, affirmed the Mexican artist, very willing to dance, at 83 years of age.
In addition to Hayla, the opening gala was the young orchestra Papucho and Manana Club, as well as the Puerto Rican singer Jerry Rivera, who revived a great part of his successes in this capital.
Banda colombiana Morat estará en SF
La banda colombiana, Morat hará su primera parada en SF, cuando inicie su una gira que los llevará a 15 de las ciudades más importantes de los EE.UU., donde presentarán su nuevo álbum, Balas Perdidas.
Llengan por primera vez a los Estados Unidos para presentar un álbum que ha sido certificado disco cuádruple de platino por alcanzar el #1 en ventas. Han sido galardonados con distintos premios, como el premio a Mejor Banda Revelación en los Premios 40 Principales, Mejor Banda Revelación en los Premios Cadena Dial, han sido nominados a un Latin Grammy como Mejor Nuevo Artista y recientemente han sido nominados a los Premios MTV MIAW en dos de sus categorías.
También son reconocidos en todo Latinoamérica y Europa, llevando su música y talento a distintas ciudades como Madrid, Barcelona, Monterrey, Costa Rica, entre otras.
Su gira norteamericana los llevará a los estados de California, Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Virginia, Nueva York, Georgia, y Florida. “Balas Perdidas U.S. Tour” tuvo tres exitosos espectáculos agotados en Chile: el 3 de febrero en Enjoy Pucón, el 5 en Enjoy Viña y el 8 en Enjoy Coquimbo.
En San Francisco se presentarán el 4 de abril en el The Regency Ballroom.
INAH to reopen exhibition of artifacts found in Oaxaca tomb
The pieces were uncovered at the Monte Albán archaeological site in 1932
The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) will reopen an exhibition in Oaxaca today that features more than 400 valuable artifacts found in a tomb at the Monte Albán archaeological site in 1932.
The pieces discovered by archaeologist Alfonso Caso in tomb seven of the Zapotec site and dubbed “The Treasure of Monte Albán” include objects made of gold, jade, rock crystal and jaguar bones, among other materials.
The exhibition, made up of a total of more than 600 artifacts, is housed in Room 3 of the Oaxaca Museum of Cultures and will be inaugurated at a ceremony at 7 p.m. The general public can visit starting on Saturday, Feb. 23.
Curators have updated the exhibition by including plaques offering new interpretations of the pieces, while the integration of modern technology will also contribute to providing an enhanced experience for visitors.
The name of the exhibition is Tomb Seven: The Place of the Ancestors.
INAH archaeologist and exhibition curator Nelly Robles told the newspaper El Economista that as a result of new research it is now known that “tomb seven was an ossuary and not a tomb for a specific dignitary.”
She said that both Zapotec and Mixtec people used the tomb, the latter leaving human remains, jewels and precious materials that were “the relics of their ancestors.”
Robles added that the Mixtec people also held ceremonies at the tomb at which they asked for favors from their deities.
The presiding gods of the tomb were Mictlantecuhtli, Mesoamerican god of death and the underworld, and Xipe Tótec, a life-death-rebirth deity.
Both are represented in the different objects found by Caso in 1932, Robles said.
The archaeologist explained that the Mixtec people first started carrying out rituals at the tomb around 1350 AD and continued to do so until the early days of the Spanish colonial era.
The reopening of “The Treasure of Monte Albán” to the public is part of celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the creation of INAH in 1939.
Source: El Economista (sp).
