Holguín Orchestra awarded with the 60th Anniversary seal of EGREM
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The Hermanos Avilés Orchestra, the oldest active orchestra not only in Cuba but also in Latin America, was awarded with the 60th Anniversary seal of the EGREM, as part of the activities for the Romerías de Mayo taking place in this eastern city.
Created in Holguín on October 16, 1882, the Avilés has achieved a great legacy of cultural tradition over the last three centuries, a trajectory that earned it the distinction also granted for its loyalty to this record company in defense of Cuban music.
Carlos Lam Mora, director of the EGREM in Holguín, highlighted the responsibility that comes with making music with the wealth and heritage that this band maintains, pride of the Cuban city of parks.
At the time of recognition, Gastón Allen, renowned trumpeter, arranger, composer and director of the band, said that in these 142 years of work they have done nothing other than try to ensure that each Holguín native takes a little piece of his music in their hearts.
The Santa Palabra hall, in the EGREM Music Center, became for the first time during the Romerías, into a kind of bohemian bar in order to distinguish these artists and create a space in which music shines in its entire splendor.
The Romerías de Mayo, in the year of its 30th anniversary, consolidates as the festival of traditions and modernity that brings together the most valuable of the young Cuban artistic avant-garde, turning Holguín, from May 2 to 8, into the Capital of Young Art.
