Bombazo Fandango

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In 2009 Melody Gonzalez, member of the Son Jarocho workshops at el Centro Cultural de Mexico and Hector Luis Rivera, then living in Chicago and performing with bomba group Buya, organized the first Bombazo Fandango in Santa Ana, CA and in essence united two distinct yet related communities: Bomberos y Fandangueros.  

 

Bomba is one of the traditional musical genres from Puerto Rico, characterized by barrel drums (barriles), a shaker (maraca), sticks (cuas), call and response of song and the dynamic conversation between dancer and lead drummer (primo/subidor).

 

Bombazo= bomba gathering/conviviencia

 

Son Jarocho is traditional music from Veracruz, Mexico characterized by stringed instruments called jaranas, the verses of traditional songs and a wooden stage (tarima) where the dancer creates music.

 

Fandango=Son Jarocho gathering/conviviencia

 

The Bombazo Fandango unites practitioners of these two genres from throughout their respective diasporas. Upwards of 40 bomba and son jarocho practictioners have come together for the past four Bombazo Fandango's.

 

 

                  

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