The event will spread from today until Thursday night, August 13th, and it constitutes a warm welcome of the so many that in the province are dedicated to the Commander in Head, Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro, for his 89 birthday.

“The bands of Florida and Nuevitas will not be this time with us, but we feel that the ¨Party¨ will keep on growing, as demonstrates to us the participation of the band of Puerto Padre, from Las Tunas”, mentioned Jorge Pablo Atanay Pérez, head of the department of programming of the Provincial Music Center.

In addition to this band, there will take part the bands of the municipalities of Santa Cruz del Sur, Guáimaro and Camagüey.

In its artistic itinerary, is included a parade at 9:00 a.m. of all the bands from Ignacio Agramonte and Pobre streets, going to Cisneros up to the Agramonte Park, where there will be set up the event, which from 2:30 p.m. proposes the different concerts of the bands.

For August 13th different academic personalities as the musicologist Roberto Bullón Domínguez from Ciego de Ávila, and musicians like Esteban Quesada Calderón from Havana, will develop the theoretical part of the event.

The closing gala ceremony is foreseen for Thursday night with a concert of the Provincial Band of Music of Camagüey in the Agramonte Park, stage where they are presented every Friday at 6:00 p.m. and every Sunday at 9:00 p.m.

The Party of the Bands in Camagüey pay tribute with its name to Esteban Horta Gutiérrez, outstanding musician and teacher of the Vocational Art School Luis Casas Romero, another Camagüeyan teacher who was dedicated the first edition of this sort of festival of the music of concert.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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