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| Posing for the picture at our first venue of the New Mexico tour. |
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| Poster for the event. |
We have tested it empirically: Santa Fe is "cold as hell"! Even if it does not seem like it from the sunny pictures below, that night the temperatures had gone down to -9ºC. The freezingd morning air hitting our face as we came out of the rooms was an experience to remember. But, hey, that's what happens when, at the end of autumn, you are at 2125
meters and under continental climate: cold, cold, and dry, dry. The leather of
zambombas and
panderos was so tight and tense during the whole week that we feared any of them might break at any time!
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| Below freezing, we begun to load our instruments into the vans. |
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| Once arrived at the senior center, downloading the musical instruments from the vans. |
Albert Chávez was kindly waiting for us at the
Mary Esther Gonzáles Senior Center of Santa Fé. He had been organizing the event and setting up the logistics.
This was our first formal presentation in New México (the previous night at the bar of the hotel had not been prepared), so we were somewhat nervous...
The official program agreed upon with our sponsors for each of
the five announced presentations consisted of a talk with
slides by Enrique explaining about Christmas rondas in Spain, and then the
villancicos (Christmas carols) alternating with interventions of Edmundo explaining instruments,
lyrics, rhythms, clothing, etc.
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| After singing, we were invited to have lunch... |
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| ...and after lunch we invited everybody to sing with us. |
In a few more hours we would have to be singing in Abiquiu, so we could not afford any delay, and headed out immediately...
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