To suit everyone's tastes, the XXII Fiesta a la Guantanamera, a comprehensive cultural event that from December 15 to 18 will celebrate the 148 years of Guantanamo City, will have Mexico as a Guest Country and announces novelties and stellar concerts, such as those of the renown Cuban singer Ivette Cepeda.
Among the guests, the acclaimend Ivette Cepeda already confirmed her participation, who for firsts time visits Guantanamo to offer three concerts and promote her invitation on social networks; as well as El Noro and Primera Clase group that will play in several squares, and about twenty foreign artists, among them the Veracruzana Dance School.
The audiovisual producer Asiel Babastro, the painter Diana Balboa and the poet Javier L. Mora - Boti criticism award 2017-, will lead theoretical spaces and exhibitions on this anniversary of Villa del Guaso, the sixth most populated city in Cuba and perhaps the youngest of those founded in the country as capital, by the Spanish Crown, the 1st of December, 1870.
Emblematic local music and dance groups will show the artistic development of the region, including traditional groups that perform Changüí and Nengón rhythms, and promote the Franco-Haitian heritage, such as the Tumba Francesa, the First Cuban Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, which will share stage with the Ballet Folklórico Babul and the Steel Band, of El Cobre.
Various institutions, such as Education, ARTEX and the INDER will be linked to this Festival, which will include handicraft fairs, competitions of bartenders and winemakers, book expo-sales, conferences, film cycles, visual arts exhibitions, simultaneous of chess, children's shows, the San Lazarina pilgrimage, troubadour and dance shows in several areas of the city.