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This Saturday begins a marathon of the historical genre that best represents Santiago del Estero. Forty-eight hours will be a pure chacarera La Banda, with the best current exponents of Argentine folklore.
The singer Graciela Carabajal Santiagueña is this: "I am the sister of Peteco and Demi, the daughter of Carlos, the niece of Cutie, premium and Roberto de Cali, Roxana's mother (and the list does not stop here). " She was devoted to singing professionally, but then, mothers-the-seven children had left the music and is now returning. But this time, just before singing in a club in the neighborhood of San Telmo, is above all a spokesman for the original initiative familiar: a marathon of forty-eight hours of chacareras in La Banda, Santiago del Estero, which begins this Saturday August 8.
How did the idea?
Uncle Cutie always restless. Five years ago my father was invited to Spain by people who came to Cosquín and then went to the house of the Carabajal in Santiago. Fell in love with the music and the chacarera and then invited my father to a festival in Zaragoza. A group of Canadian guys who make all the music of Santiago del Estero and have learned to play the violin as Peteco. In this festival, my father sang five hours without stopping, do not let off the stage. This is what inspired the marathon chacarera Cutie, also as a way of honoring my father who died nearly three years.
Who is involved?
There are more than five hundred registered players, people around the world, not only in Argentina, which may bring, if they want their own chacareras. Apart from the marathon will open the museum of the Carabajal family, where we show, along with many other things, the wealth that was achieved through compositions Peteco, my daddy, my uncle, Augustine.
Will there be people dancing?
Now they are dancing. Cuti is there, people began arriving from all sides and there is rock all day in the house of the grandmother Carabajal.
How beginning the tradition in the family musical Carabajal?
We could make history. The tradition began with my uncle Hector, great guitarist, accompanied by tango musicians. And then came Carlos, my father and my uncle, Augustine. They were very smart in a practical sense: the way they managed to enter the world of folklore in Buenos Aires. Because in those 60 years-decade - the boom, the big clubs in the era of Salta. Augustine founded the Cantores Salavina, Carlos Santiago Manseros The armed and were a little climbing.
Do you think that something of the character of Santiago is revealed in chacarera?
In chacarera is the mischievousness of Santiago tremendously and so are unsurpassed as salteños for zamba, we are absolute masters of vidala and also the chacarera.
Source: Clarín.
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