Preps Rev Up for the Pepe Sanchez Trova Festival
Pepe Sanchez Trova Festival is going to take place in this city, the cradle of the genre, on March 18 - 22, so as to give continuity to Cuba’s long-standing musical event, as announced by the organizers.
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Conceived back in the 1960s, the festival’s 53rd edition will once again attract enthusiasts of that sonorous style and musicologists, whose work has gone deep into the origins of that bastion of Cuban traditional music.
The attendees are going to pay tribute to such songwriters and singers as Manuel Corona, Juvenal Quesada and Tania Castellanos; expert María Teresa Linares and emblematic pieces Longina, Pensamiento and Mujer perjura.
Likewise, prestigious troubadour groups are going to be praised, including the Varela Miranda family and 20-year-old Septeto Santiaguero. The last one has been given two Grammy nominations and Cubadisco awards.
On March 19, the anniversary of the birth of artist José (Pepe) Sánchez, author of bolero entitled Tristezas and precursor of trova, the participants will pay homage to famous Cuban musicians, at Santa Ifigenia cemetery.
The theoretical sessions will be shedding light on the results of researches on the age-old evolution of trova, with the special participation of Lino Betancourt, who has made outstanding contributions to the topic.
