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Quito, October 14, 2011
FOREIGN MINISTRY CONCLUDES PAINTING EXHIBITION WITH CUBAN MUSIC
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Aché group was born by the individual need of each musician to integrate a project different from the typical groups existing in Ecuador; including in their music, through its name in African Yoruba-language, good fortune, luck, happiness and everything positive in the life of man.
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On the night of Friday, October 14, 2011, the Directorate for Cultural and Iterculturality Promotion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Integration, conducted the closing of the exhibition THE OTHER JUNGLE, of the Cuban-Ecuadorian painter Luis Saavedra, which began on September 29 and remained exposed in several areas of the Palace of Najas in the Foreign Ministry.
This closure, was enlivened by the Cuban – Ecuadorian group, “Ache”, founded in 2001 in Quito, which is composed by guitarist Alcides Medina, percussionist Tomas Perez, Antonio Cepeda and Jose Cubela, bassist Manolo Fernandez, trumpeter Israel Romo, and keyboardists, Luis Narvaez and Angel Diaz, who performed a varied repertoire including Samba, Bossa Nova, Jazz, Salsa, son, cumbia, merengue, boleros, ballads and Nueva Trova.
Saavedra when concluding his presentation revealed the value of social criticism in his work, being inspired by the attempted coup against the government of President Rafael Correa and, moreover, explained it through a brief overview of the Yoruba culture.
Again, the Foreign Ministry, in communion with the spirit of the Government of the Citizen Revolution, to include more state spaces to its constituents, democratized the Najas Palace that day. PRESS RELEASE No. 1026 |
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