After two years of pandemic with virtual celebrations and few parades (in 2022, 12 parades were held with the corresponding protocols), the delegate highlighted the greatest impact with which he lives personally and collectively the return of “our carnival”.
This weekend, more than 100 murgas will begin the festivities in the different neighborhoods of Buenos Aires which will take place from 7:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. on Saturdays and Monday the 20th (holiday) and until midnight on Sundays and Tuesday the 21st of Carnival.
Thus, neighbors will be able to enjoy parades of the artistic carnival groups in the different neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, the great protagonists of this festival, who will display their magic through dancing and singing to the beat of the bass drum and cymbal.
Fiscina said that during the year the murgas were preparing without knowing what this circuit was going to be like. “We had the hope that it would be a normal carnival, like in 2020, and we achieved it, in fact we have two more Corsicans than before the pandemic, this gives us hope that we can continue thinking about carnival as we know it; perhaps the Buenos Aires government had another proposal but after long negotiations it ended up accompanying us and we reached an agreement,” he explained.
While, Vanessa Costamember of the murga The Liniers Pizpiretas and organizer of a parade in Plaza Sarmiento, agreed in a conversation with Télam that this is a special carnival, and they are all very anxious. “In my case in particular it is number 22 and I missed it a lot, that adrenaline is on the surface,” she said.
Regarding the strength of the Buenos Aires murga, Vanesa pointed out that its power is especially in the lyrics. “We have a lot to say and I’m not just talking about the criticism itself (as the song of criticism that the murgas have is known and derives from the satire of the Creole circus), but also that in the 45-minute show the five or six themes that one can do, have a content”, he maintained.
“That added to the fact that the murgas are taken out by the members, if it weren’t for everything that each member puts in, the murgas would not exist, we are a great family that come together to sew fantasies, appliqués, galleys, without all that, nights without sleep to get to do all that, there would be no murgas,” he said.
Los Pizpiretas de Liniers will live “a double adrenaline and double emotion”, since after seven years they will return to perform at Plaza Sarmiento. “It is to return to our place and to our house and since there is no house, it will be three days (February 18, 19 and 20), where I think expectations will be met, it will cover what we have embodied for many years in another corner”, remarked Costa.
“Going home was the icing on the cake for a carnival that until recently we had no news and that was more tense to take to the streets in general terms and always with the fear that there would be a regrowth. Having the corsican again in the plaza is what we wanted, this carnival is going to materialize and we are happy about it,” he added.
In February 2020, it was the last time that the city had its traditional celebrations with free neighborhood parades in streets, avenues and squares. with street parades where the neighbors gathered and crowded together to see the murgas go by.
Then the pandemic arrived and given the need to revive the festival of God Momo in 2021, different virtual shows were organized in the city and murals were painted alluding to the murgas and carnival, while in 2022 and continuing with the health emergency, only They carried out 12 corsos, with the protocol care.
In this 2023 there will be parades in the neighborhoods of La Boca, Palermo, Saavedra, San Telmo, Almagro, Parque Patricios, Boedo, Agronomía, Barracas, Colegiales, Flores, Liniers, Lugano, Slaughterhouses, Parque Chacabuco, Parque Saavedra, Paternal, Piedrabuena, Pompeya, San Cristóbal, Villa Pueyrredón, Villa Crespo, Villa del Parque, Villa Devoto, Villa Real, Villa Urquiza and on Avenida de Mayo.
Source: Ambito
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