Around 300 musicians will participate in the concert that the monumental Oaxacan orchestra of Mexico City will offer on August 18, starting at 3 p.m.
The concert will close the activities that took place on the occasion of the Festival of Indigenous Cultures in the capital’s main square, reported José Luis Castro, representative of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples.
This will be the fifth concert offered by this monumental band. Eleven bands will participate, whose members are residents of the capital and municipalities of the metropolitan area such as Netzahualcóyotl, and some from the mountains and northern area of Oaxaca, indicated Fernando Jiménez Jiménez, director of the monumental Oaxacan band.
The collective that gave rise to the monumental band began in 2019 in the context of the fairs of towns and indigenous neighborhoods of Mexico City.
Prior to the concert, members of the monumental band will carry out a parade that will start from the Juarez Hemicycle in the Alameda Central to the main square at 1:00 p.m.
The contingents that make up the bands will participate in this type of parade; they will be accompanied by Oaxacan dance groups, who will wear traditional outfits from that entity in order to enhance this festival of the towns and neighborhoods.
They hope to arrive at the main square at 2:00 p.m. to begin the concert with the most representative songs from the state of Oaxaca, where there will be no shortage of the interpretation of the Oaxacan waltz Dios Nunca Muere.
Songs that rescue and preserve the native Oaxacan music will also be played, among others Bajo el Cielo Mixe by Otilio Contreras, a cumbia by current authors among many other songs that have represented this community at a national and international level.
Children, young girls and adults of various generations participate in the band, he said.
Source: jornada
