The presence of two worldwide delegations, from Trinidad and Tobago and Bolivia, invited to the Assembly of Drums of the Daybreak which came regarding in Plaza Bolívar in Caracas, was the singular word of San Juan of the La Vega parish, which yesterday reached 51 years of expertise.
It was an thrilling and colourful day, with a specific power as a result of rhythmic accompaniment of cumacos, pipes, curbatas, laurels and guaruras, from the night time of the twenty third to the twenty fourth when the frenzy of music, songs, dances and pleasure broke out in a neighborhood. generally hit by crime.
Right this moment peace reigns, amongst different causes as a result of dismantling of the Cota 905 gangs and the spectacular push that the neighborhood provides to its cultural and sports activities occasions.
William Ochoa, Nationwide Tradition Prize 2021-2022 and one of many líderis basic to the Brotherhood and the Society of San Juan, defined that the custom this yr was strictly adopted, from 9 pm on Sunday when the saint leaves in procession till arriving, at roughly 11:00 pm, on the chapel within the El Carmen neighborhood, the place the Black Christmas Eve mass was celebrated that enables the assembly between San Benito, San Antonio and San Pedro, who greet Juan on his day. That’s till daybreak the following day between flags, guaruras, fee of guarantees and sirens.
Yesterday they heard in La Vega reminiscences of the completely different types of the Venezuelan drum similar to that of the coast of Aragua, Carabobo, Yaracuy, Miranda and La Guaira, as a result of systematic effort of analysis and assembly of the members of that brotherhood with cultists from numerous areas of the nation.
At 7 pm he was paraded once more in a procession alongside 7 de Diciembre Avenue within the El Carmen neighborhood, to be locked up once more within the Chapel of the Saints of the Blacks till subsequent yr.
In accordance with Wiliam, it’s potential that even this Afro-descendant celebration had its origin in Hacienda La Vega itself, from the place the black manumiss Damiana Liendo left for the distant lands of Chuao with a San Juan that she started to have a good time in these lands within the days when The demonstration was restricted in Caracas, the place already within the 18th century he was feted by way of the brotherhood of San Juan Bautista of the hermitage of San Mauricio.
Ochoa is líder, promising, cultural and one of the crucial passionate activists of cultural work in Caracas.
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2024-07-02 02:07:27
