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Written by Dayana Menzoney Justiz Photo: By the author

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• 2023 Cucalambeana Fiesta

The tribute to “La Guantanamera,” on the 60th anniversary of its universalization, could not be missing from this festival of the Cuban peasantry, in which music and theory come together in the same space.

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Written by Yelaine Martínez Herrera Photos: Reynaldo López and the author

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• 2023 Cucalambeana Fiesta

The Cucalambeana Fiesta has traditionally managed to bring together artists from different nations in what has become an intercontinental embrace of identity. On this occasion, representatives from eight nations meet at the Balcón de Oriente (Cuban Eastern Balcony) to share the best of their idiosyncrasy and strengthen ties of friendship between our peoples.

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Written by Dayana Menzoney Justiz Photo: From the author

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• 2023 Cucalambeana Fiesta

In one of the theoretical events of the Cucalambeana Fiesta, the presentation of two books was made by the researcher Amor Benítez Hernández, a specialist on the décima, who came from the capital of the country to present two investigations that every lover of the Cuban culture should know.

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Written by Yelaine Martínez Herrera Photos: Reynaldo López

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• 2023 Cucalambeana Fiesta
• Women's Recital of Décima

Since the fifteenth century, in variants such as the royal couplet and later the spinel, the décima has captivated not a few creators with that magic that is a "pure air prison". Vicente Gómez Martínez Espinel, with his musical virtues, established the structure that would mark the rhymes: "abbaaccddc". And from then on, he flew the "peninsular traveler" until she got native in Cuba. Not for nothing Mirta Aguirre said: "…because she was born first/and our people later."