MiCultura promotes interest of young Penonomenians with the murga gender
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The Ministry of Culture (MiCultura), through its regional direction in the province of Coclé, held a workshop for young people from the Membillo community in the Penonomé District with the aim to preserve the gender of the murga.
They were 13 youth, from music gangs from community schools that benefited from the experiences of the musicians Luis "Noly" Calvo and Meignaldo Castillo, members of the Murga "Son Selectos de Penonomé."
At the free workshop, participants expanded their knowledge about the history and performance technique of this musical genre, best at carnival parties and other celebrations.
Eby Figueroa, regional director of MiCultura at Coclé expressed that this workshop "has been of great musical contribution to this workshop, entered into a plan to safeguard this gender that keeps a story in our region."
"It's a commitment that we have made to strengthen the different characteristics of this rhythm and to highlight the tamboreras style of composers from the Penonomean region," she emphasized.
Meanwhile, David Rodriguez, one of the participants at the workshop, stated that "the workshop was greatly enriching at both the musical and cultural level. I felt a great emotion by learning an autochthonous new piece (La Tachuela) from our Penonomé and knowing that we can continue to keep our traditions alive as a matter of pride."
"A great thank you to MiCultura and to the Murga" Son Selectos "for offering us this workshop that brought us new knowledge and will be of great help to always carry the penonomanian essence in our presentations," Rodriguez added.
Figueroa explained that in Penonomé the rhythm of interpretation, the bulb blow changes with respect to other regions and was traditional at the beginning of the carnival with the murga of Professor Papi Valderra. No letters are made with clas as happens in other peoples and the letters and chorus are sung according to the success of typical songs that adapt to the murga.
At the same time, she stated that another day was planned to strengthen the technique of percussion.
