Guantánamo – Performance of artists at the Provincial Pediatric Hospital Major General Pedro Agustín Pérez and community spaces, led by troubadours from Granma, Las Tunas and the local area, together with the Mexican writer Guadalupe Celis and members of the Tuxtepec Ballet, distinguished this 48th Political Song Festival, an event that takes place in Guantanamo from August 1st to 4th, sponsored by the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS).
The gathering called Coge la Guitarra y Sueña, at the ARTEX’s La Guantanamera Cultural Center, led by the musical researcher José Cuenca Sosa, became a moment of exchange with the singer-songwriter Lorenzo Cisneros Betancourt (Topete), to whom this edition of the event is dedicated for his 55 years of artistic career, as well as with the exponents of trova in the country Jesús Pérez and Richard Gómez, from the Las Tunas Province.
The Lentes Armónicos space is the novelty this year of the Political Song Festival, an initiative of the musicologist from Santiago, Yoricel Andino, who during the first meeting discussed about synergy between trova and contemporary audiovisual production with the Guantanamo singer-songwriters Claudio Casal (father and son) and the Granma creator Yanco León.
On the other hand, the headquarters of the Compañía Danza Fragmentada hosted the Peña Rienda Suelta, with its host the young creator of the patio Javier Zaldívar, and the singer-songwriter Lorenzo Cisneros (Topete) accompanied by the poet Guadalupe Celis as guests, while the Casa de la Trova Benito Odio in the Guantánamo City, turns these days into the epicenter of the traditional musical performances of the Political Song Festival.
For this Friday, August 2, the event program include its theoretical section, which will take place in the Aretusa Room of the UNEAC Provincial Committee, where historians of the territory will refer to the events of August 4, 1957 in Guantánamo, and from which the Conversation Voices of Mexico will also be held, dedicated to the new song movement in the Aztec country.
The La Guasotrovancia concert in the Plaza 11 de Abril of this eastern city, starting at 10:30 p.m. is another of the proposals of the forty-eighth edition of the Jornada de la Canción Política on Friday, August 2, a presentation that will have among its guests the Guantanamera lily, Annalie López, who returns to her native land to share her melodies with her audience.
Translated by Liubis Balart
