The Institute of Puerto Rican Tradition [Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP)], the Everlasting Roots Analysis and Tradition Heart [Centro de Investigación y Cultura Raíces Eternas (CICRE)] and the Afrolegacy Challenge [Proyecto Afrolegado] introduced that the thirtieth Anniversary of Los Bombazos shall be held on Saturday, Could 20, at 1:00 pm, on the Institute headquarters in Previous San Juan.
This occasion commemorates the rise and resurgence of Bomba festivities in Puerto Rico and its attain within the diaspora, which is taken into account to be of excessive historic caliber.
“We welcome the thirtieth Anniversary of Los Bombazos to our headquarters, an occasion that invitations us to rediscover the heritage and riches of our Afro-descendants. We invite you to take pleasure in this cultural occasion that brings collectively Puerto Ricans dwelling in Puerto Rico and the diaspora. As well as, it’s possible you’ll take the chance to see the “legacy” exhibition—”Muestra Legado”—which features a collection of works from our Nationwide Assortment,” stated Carlos Ruiz Cortés, govt director of the ICP.
Along with bomba teams from all areas of Puerto Rico, representatives from New York, Philadelphia, and Panama will even take part within the gathering. Los Bombazos is an occasion that has been held yearly since its first version, on Could 18, 1993. [. . .]
The actions will start with the colloquium “Historical past and improvement of the bombazos” and a panel of representatives from varied bomba areas in Puerto Rico and the diaspora. There will even be a musical efficiency with a collective, city plenazo to greet and welcome the plena rhythm. The exercise will proceed with a studying, to the rhythm of bomba and plena, of the ” Trasfondo Histórico de los Bombazos y los Plenazos,” adopted by an act of remembrance, respect, and gratitude to our ancestors for the legacy of our traditions, customs, and Puerto Rican idiosyncrasies. The general public will be capable of benefit from the poems “El Bombazo y Bomba del Nuevo Milenio,” by Michael Cruz Rodríguez—higher often called Dulce E’ Coco. There will even be a solo of Tambores de Plena y Bomba by maestro Víctor Emmanuelli Náter, adopted by a posthumous tribute to numerous artists equivalent to Héctor Tito Matos, Miguel Flores, Tite Curet, Norma Salazar, Rafaela Balladares, Benny Ayala, Amílcar Tirado, Roberto Angleró, Isabel Albizu, Ramón López, José Chema Soto, Félix Figueroa, and Héctor Atabal Rodríguez, amongst others. [. . .]
Excerpts translated by Ivette Romero. For full article (in Spanish), see https://www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimiento/cultura/notas/celebraran-30-anos-de-los-bombazos-en-la-sede-del-icp/