Music Festival to take place in Guanajuato

 

The Civil Association of Composers and Performers of Guanajuato (CEGAC) announced that the first Music, Echoes & Sounds Festival will take place in the states? capital on November 17th and will run thru November 21st.

 

Musician Carlos Vidaurri Aréchiga, indicated that the Festival will be dedicated to the memory of Héctor Quintanar, an outstanding figure in Mexico?s music community and in the rest of the world because of his composition work as well as orchestra director and pedagogue.

 

The Festival will focus on transmiting the city of Guanajuato?s work in artistical music, from a composer?s & performer?s point of view.

 

This event has international appeal because of the wide variety of musical genres programmed like: music from Italy, France, Germany, Holland & Spain as well as the performers, who many are the city?s residents, are from 10 different nationalities such as Checoslovaquian, Russian and Cuban.

 

Concerts are free and will start on Tuesday in Guanajuato?s "Principal" Theater at 20:00 hrs., where a formal act will take place and give way to the concerts. Wednesday?s, Thursday?s and Friday´s performances will take place in Auditorio Minas and Saturday?s closing will be held once more at "Principal" Theater.

 

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