Fandango Jarocho – Grito de Dolores

September 15, 2017 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

FREE – Donations of any size are welcome and greatly appreciated!

Enjoy a lively evening of music, dancing, and zapateado– bring your dance shoes and instruments, or just come and enjoy the music and dance! This is a special Fandango celebrating El Grito de Dolores to kick off Mexico’s Independence Day celebrations!

El Grito de Dolores
Musicians and Poets of the community commemorate Mexican Independence Day with a fandango jarocho! Bring your instruments and your dance shoes to join in or just come and enjoy!

Fandango jarocho con soneros y poetas de la comunidad. Vengan con sus jaranas y otros instrumentos, zapatos para bailar y voces bien calentados– o solo para ver!

8:00 pm Doors
8:30 pm Poets, Decimistas y Repentistas from the Community
9:00 pm El Grito de Dolores
9:15 pm Fandango begins

Entrance is free for this family friendly event. Your donations are appreciated; delicious and authentic Mexican food and drinks will be sold by Los Cilantros restaurant.

There is no entrance fee, but any monetary donations are accepted in support of programming at La Peña. Son Jarocho is a lively traditional art form from the southern Mexican state of Veracruz that sits on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.It is a lyrical and danceable music genre that formed in the melding of three cultures: Arabic-Spanish, African and indigenous Mexican. It is at the same time highly improvised and highly structured—filled with complex poly-rhythms and musical dialogue in its dance, song, poetry and music. The basic instrumentation of the son jarocho includes the jarana jarocha, guitarra de son (both guitar-like instruments) and zapateado (percussive footwork). Regional variations include the harp and various percussive instruments such as quijada, pandero, marimbol or cajón, with the latter two instruments being contemporary additions.On a communal level, the son jarocho is used to celebrate various life occasions and often speaks of love (including courtship), happiness and the beauties of life as well as the hardships including sadness, loss and death. Hundreds of years old, the son jarocho is a living, contemporary art form that continues to evolve with time and under the influences of trans-cultural exchange and inter-generational dialogue.

Details

Date:: September 15, 2017
Time:: 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Series:: Son Jarocho: Classes, Workshops & Community Jams!
Event Category:: Lounge Events

Venue

: La Peña Cultural Center
: 3105 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705 United States
Phone: 510-849-2568