The ‘shows’ are part of the Tropical Music Festival, this Friday 3 and Saturday 4 December, which brings together Grupo Niche, Guayacán Orquesta, Lizandro Meza.
Among the rhythms that get the people of Guayaquil to stomp the most are salsa and vallenato. So this Friday 3 and Saturday 4 December, from 19:00, the Tropical Music Festival in the acoustic shell of the Samanes Park, where a day is dedicated to dancing each musical genre.
On Friday they will enjoy the colombian sauce, with a billboard led by Grupo Niche, Guayacán Orchestra and Jorge Leo and Atrato River. Ecuadorians will also be on the salsa stage Juan Paul, Paolo Plaza, Danny Enrique, Gustavo Enrique (the Sonero del Pacífico) and the sonero from Guayaquil Ray Bayona.
Instead, Saturday is the day to cry and smile to the melodies of vallenato. The Vallenatero cartel presents The Restless of Vallenato, singer and accordionist Omar geles, Daniel Calderón and the Giants, the iconic Lizandro Meza and the Colombian based in Quito Pablo Parra and his band.
“I believe that the similarity of cultures It has made what we do in Colombia reach Ecuador quickly, and what Ecuadorians do also reach Colombia quickly … That is why we have that happiness that the Ecuadorian 100% supports the Colombian artist, and also because he identifies a lot with his vallenato songs and popular music, which are musical little sisters “, he highlights Pablo Parra, born in Cúcuta, but based in the Ecuadorian territory for 17 years.
Parra, exponent of vallenato (Caribbean musical genre) with the group Pablo Parra & The Band, anticipates the release of his freshest songs, created during confinement by the pandemic, with which he has experimented with the rhythms of popular and regional Mexican music. The songs You are with him and Saw my face, which merge touches of ranchera, will be the stars of the repertoire that he has prepared for this Saturday.
“The regional mexican It is a rhythm that is hitting a lot in the popular music”, Says the singer-songwriter and also a music producer. “We want to refresh the vallenato sound that has identified us for years, we want to merge new rhythms so that people feel that they are taking a show complete … The artist needs to reinvent himself, we want to avoid falling into monotony in our shows, and above all connect with new audiences ”.
Parra also promises a presentation that will connect with the nostalgia of the audience, through popular Latin classics. “Among those, those of the missing teacher Juan Gabriel, in our version with the sounds that identify us, and songs from other colleagues of Vallenato music, such as Jorge Celedón and Los Diablitos”, Says the musician, who by 2022 has almost 40 songs of his own in production, which he will gradually release.
The Tropical Music Festival, which is organized by Spectacular Productions, offers four places of access to the public, whose tickets are available in the premises of Cellshop, in Mall del Sol and Mall del Sur, according to a publication of the event on social networks.

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