In Santiago de Cuba province: Los Gofiones, one of the most popular artistic groups in the Canary Islands
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- 06 / 03 / 2009
Spaniard Osvaldo Moreno, president of the group, told ACN that they have been devoted to the spreading of folkloric, Latin American and South American rhythms over the last 40 years, and especially to promote the language and the variety of musical styles identifying countries in the region.
We have African and European music in our repertoire, he said, since the latter has strongly marked the way the group interprets and plays the pieces.
On the other hand, we also perform music from Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and from other parts of the Caribbean, he stressed.
The group's musical director Victor Batista, also said that the group is one of the top representatives of culture in Spain, and that it excels for its unique style of interpreting and communicating the roots and customs of people from the Canary Islands.
The name of the group is symbolically associated to Gofio (toasted cornmeal), a type of food that many families in various parts of the world have sustained themselves with, and because it especially defines the population of that Spanish region, he pointed out.
Los Gofiones have participates in the International Caribbean Festival, and have shared the stage with top Cuban music figures, like Silvio Rodríguez, who collaborated in a recording under the generic title of "Cuba".
The group is in Cuba following an invitation from the Cuban Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC), and in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba they performed at the Dolores Concert Hall, the Casa de la Trova, and at the headquarters of the Association of the Canary Islands, where its members spoke with compatriots who one day crossed the sea to settle in the Caribbean archipelago.
(ACN)
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