Mariachi Romatitlán

At the Giardini della Filarmonica, summer festival of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Tuesday 25 June concert in the Gardens (9.30 pm) homage to Mexico with the lively and passionate musical group Mariachi Romatitlán populariser of the Mexican folklore tradition, for decades committed to the rediscovery and diffusion of the mariachi. Talking about mariachi is talking about a purely Mexican popular tradition, widespread and known worldwide, a tradition that represents a way of being and feeling, and depicts the temperament of Mexicans and more generally of Latin American people. In mariachi, typically local instruments such as the vihuela and the guitarron are played, accompanied by the vigorous timbre of singing. The rhythms are lively, the sound impetuous, like the essence of Mexicans, a creative, eclectic, artistic people. Dressed in traditional dress, the ten musicians of the group, together with two dancers, draw from the vast repertoire and perform songs from different regions of the country, jarabes, minuets, polkas, valonas, schottisches, waltzes and serenades, in addition to the corridos, the typical ballads Mexican women who tell stories of battles, extraordinary deeds and loves.

Inserted in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of 2011, the reasons read: “Mariachi music transmits values ​​of respect for the natural heritage of the regions of Mexico and for local history in the Spanish language and in the various Indian languages ​​of western Mexico”.