Festival of salsa in Mexico featured the presence of Cuban orchestras
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Photo: PLMexico, March 25.- The Cuban Salsa Festival, held for the first time in Mexico at the Palacio de los Deportes in the capital, leaves an unforgettable memory for dancers and lovers of the genre, the specialized press comments today.
Commentators of the radio, the daily television said that the numerous Cuban orchestras that acted in that great stage made vibrate a passionate dance public of the music of the largest of the Antilles.
Anacaona, Alain Pérez, Adalberto Álvarez and his Son; Isaac Delgado and Alexander Abreu opened the show that for eight hours offered attendees well-known songs from their repertoire in a mix of son with timba and other expressions of popular music.
Between each presentation of the orchestras there were several salsa academies based in Mexico City such as Aché and Candela, Habana Swing and Salsa Candela, which won the prize of the assistants to participate in Baila en Cuba 2019, a World Meeting of Dancers and Casino and Salsa Dance Academies.
To close the Salsa Festival, Maykel Blanco and his Salsa Mayor performed, followed by the Van Van, who paid homage to its director Juan Formell, who almost four years after his physical disappearance, continues to inspire the creators of the timba in Cuba .
The group known as 'the train of Cuban music', played a medley of their hits of the 70s, as well as others that have recently sounded like Amiga Mia and some of their latest album Legado, dedicated to its founder.
In his chronicle, the newspaper Proceso reports that on stage seven national schools danced for a pass for the Salsa Festival in Havana, Cuba, which turned the palace into a dance floor.
A number of Cuban groups, such as those that played until Sunday morning at the Palace, rarely meet abroad, hence the importance of the meeting that, according to its promoters, the idea is to do it annually, the newspaper said. He highlighted that the brotherhood between Mexico and Cuba was evident in the festival. (PL)