Overview

• More than 100 performers launched the 53rd Festival Internacional Cervantino with the collective concert at the Alhóndiga de Granaditas.
• Key ensembles included Mono Blanco, Caña Dulce Caña Brava, Son de Madera and the Ensamble de Arpas Andrés Huesca.
• About 80 children from four Semilleros Creativos in Veracruz performed pieces in indigenous languages such as totonaco and tenek, with girls in the majority.
• The program featured emblematic numbers including El mundo se va a acabar, Adiós morena, El torito abajeño, Las chaparreras, El Colas, Balajú and El Siquisiri.
• Artists emphasized multigenerational participation and community benefits from the fandango’s recovery, with Mono Blanco set to return on October 13 alongside the Ballet Folklórico de Amalia Hernández.