Mono Quintet

Traditional Mexican Music

Saturday May 17th, 2014 at 8PM at the Ennejma Ezzahra Palace

 
Mexican Son music is a genre of Mexican folk music, with related dance, that varies by region in Mexico. It most likely originated in the state of Veracruz boasting major son traditions. It is mostly played at events called “fandangos” similar to jam sessions where musician gather to play, sing and dance on an elevated platform called a tarima. 
 Founded in 1977, the group Mono Blanco is credited for keeping the music popular in Veracruz in the 1970s, however,  the Ritchie Valens rock and roll version of the standard “La Bamba” contributed a lot to making  Son Jarocho internationally famous. 
Son jarocho is a very unique musical genre within the complex of son in Mexico.  Historically it is circumscribed within a coastal strip that goes from the port of Veracruz to the borders of Tabasco, including the northern part of the state of Oaxaca, whose  natural space was during many years the popular festival known as the fandango, where it developed and formed in the heat of celebration and dance.”
Son jarocho is normally played with a group of instruments in the guitar family known as jaranas.   The requinto jarocho, or guitarra del son, is another stringed instrument used for both melody and soloing. Larger requintos  (leonas) function as a kind of acoustic bass.  The harp is sometimes used, although normally in the more commercial son jarocho styles typical of urban centers.  The percussion section of son jarocho, include traditional instruments such as the pandero and the quijada de burro , made out of the jaw bone of a donkey or a horse .
 

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