Son Jarocho

Son jarocho and the string music of Veracruz. The jarana, the requinto, the harp, the tarima that the dancer plays as a percussion instrument, and the fandango as a communal event rather than a performance. Also the wider regional sones of the Huasteca and Michoacán.

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143 moments in this segment.

1847 - The battlefield at Cerro Gordo, 1847. A surveyed plan of the fighting of 17 and 18 April 1847, drawn from surveys by Major Turnbull and Captain McClellan. Veracruz. Scott's army landed at Veracruz and forced the pass on the road to the capital.
1851 - Nebel's Cerro Gordo. A hand-coloured lithograph of the battle of 18 April 1847. Published 1851 after Carl Nebel. Nebel's plates are the best-known images of the war and were drawn from the American side.
1851 - Cerro Gordo, detail. A cropped view of Nebel's lithograph of the battle. Published 1851. Santa Anna lost his wooden leg to an Illinois regiment at Cerro Gordo, and it is still in Springfield.
1884 - The Atlas mexicano. Sheets from the atlas, the maps dated between 1884 and 1886. The survey was the Porfirian state describing its own territory.
1907 - The quay at Coatzacoalcos, 1907. Shipping alongside and a glimpse of the town on the Bay of Campeche. Veracruz, 1907. Coatzacoalcos was the Gulf end of the Tehuantepec railway, which carried freight between the two oceans before the Panama Canal.
1986 - Veracruz in 1986. The fortress of San Juan de Ulúa with navy vessels moored alongside. Veracruz, 1986. Ulúa was a fort, then a prison, and is where the last Spanish garrison in Mexico held out until 1825.
2007-06-17 - Documental: Entre décimas y sones - Grandes de Tlacotalpan 1. A second part of the same Tlacotalpan documentary. Recording the older musicians was urgent work for the revival.
2007-06-17 - Documental: Entre décimas y sones - Grandes de Tlacotalpan 2. A documentary on décimas and sones featuring the elders of Tlacotalpan. The older generation carried the repertoire through the decades when the fandango declined.
2007-06-17 - Documental: Entre décimas y sones - Grandes de Tlacotalpan 3. A third part of the documentary on the elders of Tlacotalpan. Their playing predates the movimiento jaranero entirely.
2008 - Above Xalapa. The city seen from the Juárez park. Xalapa, Veracruz, 2008. Xalapa sits at around 1,400 metres and is usually in cloud.
2009-07-20 - Three members of "Son de Madera" talk about improvisation in Son Jarocho. Three members of Son de Madera discuss improvisation for the Smithsonian. Verses are improvised in décima form against a fixed harmonic pattern.
2010-05-27 - Son de Madera - "La Totolita (The Little Turkey)" [Studio Session]. Smithsonian Folkways publishes Son de Madera performing La Totolita. The label documents the tradition under its own recording programme.
2010-09-05 - Grupo Estanzuela - El Cascabel - Documental. A documentary featuring Grupo Estanzuela performing El Cascabel. Village groups sustain the repertoire outside the professional circuit.
2011-01-27 - poblanas taller de marimbol Seminario 2010. A marimbol workshop from the documentation centre's 2010 seminar. Teaching the instruments is part of how the revival sustains itself.
2011-06-09 - Son Jarocho, Un encuentro en Tlacotlalpan. TV UNAM films an encounter of son jarocho in Tlacotalpan. The form evolved over roughly two and a half centuries along the coast of southern Tamaulipas and Veracruz.
2012-02-09 - El Fandango aqui. Tlacotalpan, Veracruz - 2. A second part of the same Tlacotalpan fandango. The town holds a large fandango during its February festival.
2012-02-09 - El Fandango aqui Tlacotalpan, Veracruz - 1.. Eugenia León presents a fandango in Tlacotalpan. Singers from outside the tradition have long drawn on it.
2012-02-22 - Viaje todo incluyente - Puerto de Veracruz. Canal Once visits the port of Veracruz. The port is where the African, Spanish and indigenous strands of the music met.
2012 - The Tres Zapotes site museum. The museum at the Olmec site in southern Veracruz. 2012. The Olmec heartland is the same Gulf lowland where son jarocho later took shape.
2012 - Topotes at Catemaco. The local dish of small fried lake fish. Catemaco, Veracruz, 2012. Catemaco sits on a crater lake in Los Tuxtlas and is known for its healers as well as its fish.
2012 - The Arroyo Agrio bottling plant. The plant at Catemaco. Veracruz, 2012. Los Tuxtlas is volcanic and full of springs.
2012 - Quiahuiztlán. The Totonac site on the coast, its terraces holding miniature stone tombs. Veracruz, 2012. This is where Cortés met the Totonac lords who allied with him against the Mexica.
2012 - The power station at Orizaba, close up. A federal electricity commission installation. Orizaba, Veracruz, 2012. Orizaba's textile mills were the site of the Río Blanco strike of 1907, which was put down with troops.
2012 - The Orizaba installation. The electricity commission works at Orizaba. Veracruz, 2012. The Río Blanco killings are remembered in corridos as well as in the labour histories.
2012-09-17 - Conversando con Cristina Pacheco - Los Folkloristas (14/09/2012). An earlier Cristina Pacheco interview with Los Folkloristas from 2012. The group performed for over five decades.
2012-11-26 - Seminario de Son Jarocho 2012: Taller de Marimbol. The Son Jarocho Documentation Centre runs a marimbol workshop in its 2012 seminar. The marimbol is a plucked box bass of African derivation.
2013 - A pelican over Laguna Verde. A panorama of the nuclear plant with a pelican in flight. Veracruz, 2013. Laguna Verde is the only nuclear power station in Mexico and started up in 1990.
2013-11-01 - Antropológicas - El son Jarocho (Cápsula Prog. 10). Canal Once's Antropológicas introduces the son jarocho. The music fuses Baroque Spanish forms, West African elements brought by enslaved people, and indigenous music.
2014-03-04 - Chuchumbé, La Caña, 1995. The Son Jarocho Documentation Centre publishes Chuchumbé performing La Caña in 1995. The centre's archive records the revival as it happened.
2014 - The beach at Villa Rica. A panorama of the shore. Villa Rica, Veracruz, 2014. Cortés founded the first Spanish town on the American mainland here in 1519.
2014 - El Tajín in panorama. A wide view of the archaeological site. El Tajín, Veracruz, 2014. The voladores fly from a pole at the site entrance, a rite listed by UNESCO in 2009.
2014-09-24 - El Pájaro Cú. Mono Blanco perform El Pájaro Cú on a label channel. The repertoire is shared across groups rather than owned by any one of them.
2014-09-25 - 63.- Chuchumbé. El Cascabel, Cosoleacaque 1997. Chuchumbé perform El Cascabel at Cosoleacaque in 1997, from the documentation centre. Natalia Lafourcade has supported the centre's restoration.
2014-10-28 - Conversando con Cristina Pacheco - Los Folkloristas (24/10/2014). Cristina Pacheco interviews Los Folkloristas for Canal Once in 2014. Pacheco's interviews are among the best oral records of Mexican popular culture.
2015-02-21 - 14.- Chuchumbé La Caña México D.F. 1996. Chuchumbé perform La Caña in Mexico City in 1996, from the documentation centre archive. The centre was damaged in the 2017 earthquakes.
2015-02-21 - Malhaya. Grupo Mono Blanco perform Malhaya in a collaborative release. The jarana provides both harmony and percussion.
2015-02-21 - El chuchumbe. Grupo Mono Blanco perform El Chuchumbé. The chuchumbé was denounced to the Inquisition in 1766 as obscene, which is how its lyrics survive in the archives.
2015-02-21 - El chuchumbe. A second Mono Blanco recording of El Chuchumbé. The song's Inquisition file is the earliest documentary trace of the tradition.
2015-03-29 - 66.- Son de Madera. El Siquisirí, Cosoleacaque 1997. Son de Madera perform El Siquisirí at Cosoleacaque in 1997. The siquisirí traditionally opens a fandango.
2015-05-05 - Fandango Jarocho. Conjunto Jarocho Medellín perform Fandango Jarocho. Commercial jarocho ensembles worked the ports and tourist venues through the twentieth century.
2015-05-30 - El Buscapiés. Grupo Mono Blanco perform El Buscapiés, distributed through their label. Each son has its own dance figures and verse conventions.
2015-05-30 - La Bamba. Grupo Mono Blanco perform La Bamba, published by their label. La Bamba is the best known son jarocho and Ritchie Valens' 1958 recording carried it worldwide.
2015-06-04 - Mi Tlacotalpan. Memo Salamanca performs Mi Tlacotalpan. The town has been sung about as much as it has been played in.
2015 - Holst at the Alhóndiga. The Xalapa Symphony Orchestra playing The Planets on the esplanade of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas. 2015. The Xalapa orchestra was founded in 1929 and is among the oldest in the country.
2015 - Citlaltépetl from 190 kilometres. The volcano seen at a great distance across the landscape between the highlands and the Gulf coast. Photographed 2015. Citlaltépetl, the Pico de Orizaba, is the highest mountain in Mexico at 5,636 metres.
2015-06-29 - jarana jarocha paso#2 proceso de construcción. The second stage of building a jarana jarocha. The instrument comes in several sizes from the small mosquito upward.
2015-09-11 - La Carretera. Chuchumbé perform La Carretera, published through their label. The group took its name from the censored eighteenth century song.
2015-09-11 - La CaÑa. Chuchumbé perform La Caña on a label release. The group was central to the second wave of the jaranero movement.
2015-11-05 - La Bamba. Radio Jarocho perform La Bamba, published through their label. The group works in New York and keeps the tradition among migrants.
2016-04-29 - "Conversaciones con Mono Blanco" un documental con espíritu ciudadano. Culturas Veintidós presents conversations with Mono Blanco. The group's work was as much cultural recovery as performance.
2016-05-29 - Fandango Fronterizo en Amatlán, Veracruz, "Las Patronas" Mayo 2016 Señor presidente. A border fandango held at Amatlán in Veracruz with Las Patronas. The Fandango Fronterizo is played simultaneously on both sides of the border fence.
2016-07-25 - Son jarocho de México, documental. A documentary on the son jarocho of Mexico. The tradition nearly disappeared before the revival of the late 1970s.
2017-01-25 - El Cascabel. Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán perform El Cascabel. The mariachi absorbed jarocho sones into its own repertoire during the Golden Age.
2017-05-24 - Los Cojolites - El Pájaro Cú. Los Cojolites perform El Pájaro Cú on their own channel. The group came out of the Jáltipan area of southern Veracruz.
2017-08-03 - Danzón. Historia en México. A history of the danzón in Mexico. The danzón arrived from Cuba through Veracruz and became a Mexican urban dance.
2017-10-27 - Documental "Son de a montón, son de Campechano". A university documentary titled Son de a montón. Academic institutions in Veracruz have documented the tradition thoroughly.
2017-11-06 - Concierto de Mono Blanco en Mazatlán (4 noviembre 2017). Mono Blanco perform in Mazatlán, filmed by the Sinaloa culture department. State cultural bodies fund touring of traditional ensembles.
2017-12-01 - 5.- El Cascabel 40 años de Mono Blanco en Bellas Artes. 30 de Octubre de 2017. Mono Blanco perform El Cascabel marking forty years at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Reaching the national palace of fine arts marked the revival's success.
2018-01-17 - Natalia Lafourcade en el XXIV Festival de Son Jarocho Jáltipan. Natalia Lafourcade appears at the Jáltipan son jarocho festival. She has supported the Son Jarocho Documentation Centre damaged in the 2017 earthquakes.
2018-03-01 - Mono Blanco cumple 40 años en Cumbre Tajín 2018. Mono Blanco marks forty years at Cumbre Tajín in 2018. The group formed in the late 1970s when the fandango was close to disappearing.
2018-03-23 - El Querreque. Trío Alborada Hidalguense perform El Querreque. The huasteco trio uses violin, jarana huasteca and huapanguera.
2018-03-23 - El Perdiguero. Trío Alborada Hidalguense perform El Perdiguero. The Huasteca spans parts of six states and holds its own repertoire.
2018-04-14 - Mono Blanco - El Balajú. Mono Blanco perform El Balajú on a label release. The son is a fixed piece with improvised verses layered over it.
2018-05-24 - Grupo Mono Blanco - "Toro zacamandú (The Zacamandú Bull)" [Studio Session]. Smithsonian Folkways publishes Grupo Mono Blanco performing Toro zacamandú. Mono Blanco led the movimiento jaranero that revived the fandango from the late 1970s.
2018 - A jarana carved from one piece. A jarana primera cut from a single block of wood, made to order by the Figarola workshop. Photographed 2018. The jarana is the strummed body of a son jarocho group, and it is fretted and strung in five courses.
2018 - The head of the jarana. The peghead of a jarana primera with inlaid wood, carved in one piece with the body. Photographed 2018. Building the whole instrument from one block is the older method and is still asked for.
2018 - The old Xalapa cemetery. The exterior of the historic burial ground. Xalapa de Enríquez, Veracruz, 2018. Xalapa is the state capital and its university carries much of the state's music research.
2018 - After the patronal feast at Macpiximaca. A Totonac community of the northern Puebla sierra eating together after the fiesta. Ixtepec, Puebla, 2018. The fandango and the patronal feast share the same social shape: everyone plays, nobody watches.
2018 - Preparing the ground. A farmer working the soil before sowing. Photographed 2018. The fandango was originally a harvest and saint's day gathering held on a wooden platform in a yard.
2018 - Teocelo. The town in the central highlands. Teocelo, Veracruz, 2018. Teocelo's community radio station has broadcast since 1965 and is one of the oldest in Latin America.
2018 - Carrying the catch. Sea fish being moved by hand. Veracruz, 2018. The Gulf fishery feeds the port's cooking, and the son repertoire is full of its animals.
2018-08-29 - Los Folkloristas.. TV UNAM devotes a long programme to Los Folkloristas. The group's archive is a substantial record of traditional performance.
2018-08-31 - #Calle11 - Programa 26, Los Vega "El fandanguito" (30/08/2018). Canal Once films Los Vega performing El fandanguito. Family groups pass repertoire directly between generations.
2018-12-14 - Los Folkloristas (13/12/2018). Canal Once presents Los Folkloristas. Their recordings introduced regional Mexican musics to urban audiences.
2018-12-18 - La Bamba. Tlen Huicani perform La Bamba. The harp leads in the university ensemble's arrangements.
2018-12-18 - Fandango Jarocho. Tlen Huicani perform Fandango Jarocho, distributed by their label. The ensemble is attached to the Universidad Veracruzana.
2018-12-18 - El Cascabel. Tlen Huicani perform El Cascabel. The arpa jarocha is larger and lower than the jarana and anchors the ensemble.
2018-12-26 - Los Folkloristas en Concierto (25/12/2018). Canal Once broadcasts Los Folkloristas in concert. The group formed in 1966 and recorded traditional repertoire from across Latin America.
2019-04-12 - La Bamba. Los Vega perform La Bamba on a label channel. The Vega family are among the tradition's established musical lineages.
2019 - Landero y Coss street. A building in the middle of the port city. Veracruz, 2019. The centre keeps its portales, the arcaded walks where the danzón is still danced in the evening.
2019 - Homage to José José. The tribute to the Prince of Song held on the Zócalo, 25 October 2019, with an ensemble led by his family. Mexico City. José José died in September 2019 and the crowd on the square was counted in the tens of thousands.
2019 - Agustín Lara in the Allende garden. The statue of the composer known as El Flaco de Oro. Veracruz, 2019. Lara wrote Veracruz and Solamente una vez, and was claimed by the port though he was probably born in Tlacotalpan.
2019 - The defiant negro. A masked figure in the tradition kept up each year in the town. Almolonga, Veracruz, 2019. Gulf coast carnival characters carry the African presence in the region openly, as son jarocho does.
2019-09-04 - Amores Con Falsete. Trío Los Hidalguenses perform Amores Con Falsete. The falsete is the vocal break that defines huasteco singing.
2019-09-04 - Coplas Con Falsete. Trío Los Hidalguenses perform Coplas Con Falsete. Verses alternate with instrumental sections in a fixed pattern.
2019-11-11 - Laudería tradicional jarocha ▏ღ Hecho en México. A film on traditional jarocho lutherie. Instrument makers supply the fandangos directly rather than through shops.
2019-11-17 - 🔴 Proceso de construcción de una Jarana Jarocha !!. The construction process of a jarana jarocha. Cedar is the preferred wood and the body is hollowed from solid timber.
2020-04-23 - La Bamba. A label release of La Bamba as a son jarocho. The song long predates its rock and roll adaptation.
2020-05-03 - Son jarocho "El cascabel". ENDF/INBAL. INBAL's national dance school performs the son jarocho El cascabel. Formal dance training has absorbed the fandango's steps.
2020 - Bull masks at Almolonga. People of the town celebrating carnival in their traditional bull masks. Almolonga, Veracruz, 2020. This is one of the oldest carnivals in the region.
2020 - Totonac weavers. Women who work yarn by yarn, wearing the quechquémetl, the traditional garment, over a long white dress. Photographed 2020. The quechquémetl is a closed shoulder cape and is pre-Hispanic in form.
2020-07-17 - #ComunidadContigo: Aprende a tocar el Marimbol con Leopoldo Novoa 1:3. The culture ministry teaches the marimbol with Leopoldo Novoa. The instrument was nearly lost before the revival recovered it.
2020-07-17 - #ComunidadContigo: Aprende a tocar el Marimbol con Leopoldo Novoa 2:3. A second marimbol lesson from the culture ministry. Online teaching extended the tradition's reach considerably.
2020-08-16 - Documental del mundo Jarocho. A documentary on the jarocho world made by a luthier's channel. Building and playing are often the same trade.
2020-09-04 - Los videos más populares de Son Jarocho en YouTube | Ivan Mejía Fabela. The Veracruz culture secretariat surveys the most watched son jarocho videos. The tradition has an unusually strong online presence for a regional music.
2020-09-04 - Sones de Veracruz | Fandango jarocho en las zonas rurales de la cuenca del Papaloapan. The Veracruz culture secretariat films fandangos in rural areas. The tarima is set up wherever there is room to dance.
2020-09-14 - Fandango Jarocho. A second Tlen Huicani recording of Fandango Jarocho. The group has recorded the Veracruz repertoire extensively since 1973.
2020-09-23 - #ComunidadContigo: Fortalecimiento del Son Huasteco violín, verso y falsete 2/3. A third session on strengthening the son huasteco violin. State support programmes fund teaching in the communities themselves.
2020-09-23 - #ComunidadContigo: Fortalecimiento del Son Huasteco violín, verso y falsete 3/3. The culture ministry supports strengthening the son huasteco violin. The huasteco is a neighbouring tradition with its own trio format.
2020-09-23 - #ComunidadContigo: Fortalecimiento del Son Huasteco violín, verso y falsete 1/3. A second culture ministry session on the son huasteco violin. The violin carries the melodic lead in the huasteco trio.
2020-10-14 - #ComunidadContigo: Fandango en Casa 2:3. The culture ministry presents a fandango at home. Household fandangos are the form's natural setting rather than the concert stage.
2020-12-07 - Taller de décimas | Casa Naran. A décima workshop at Casa Naranja in Veracruz. Improvised verse requires years of practice within a fixed metrical scheme.
2021-03-04 - Son Calenda. A performance of Son Calenda. The calenda is an Isthmus processional form related to the Veracruz sones.
2021-06-09 - Ensamble Folklórico Mexicano - Fandango en Tlacotalpan Veracruz. The Ensamble Folklórico Mexicano perform a fandango in Tlacotalpan. Tlacotalpan is a World Heritage town and the tradition's symbolic centre.
2021 - The gunboat Guanajuato. The vessel moored at Boca del Río, where it has been since 2008 as a floating museum. Veracruz, 2021. She was built in Spain in the 1930s for the Mexican navy.
2021-06-30 - Versadores y decimistas | Décimas a mi madre y a la tierra. The Veracruz culture secretariat films versadores and decimistas. The décima is a ten-line stanza form inherited from Spanish Golden Age poetry.
2021-07-08 - Danza en el fandango jarocho | Alejandra Saavedra y Donají Esparza. The Veracruz culture secretariat presents dance in the fandango jarocho. The dancers' heels on the tarima are a percussion part, not an accompaniment to one.
2021-09-24 - Capítulo 5. Sur de Veracruz y Región de los Tuxtlas. Veracruz Afrodescendiente. The Veracruzana university channel covers southern Veracruz and the Tuxtlas region. Regional styles within son jarocho differ in tuning, tempo and repertoire.
2021-10-08 - Capítulo 7. Centro de Veracruz, Región Altas Montañas. Veracruz Afrodescendiente. The same series covers central Veracruz and the Altas Montañas region. The tradition is not uniform across the state.
2021-10-13 - Laudería tradicional, un arte en la confección de Jaranas. A piece on traditional lutherie and the making of jaranas. The jarana jarocha is carved from a single block rather than assembled from staves.
2022-02-01 - El fandango jarocho.. The INAH centre in Morelos devotes a programme to the fandango jarocho. The fandango is the communal gathering the music exists for, built around the tarima that the dancers play with their heels.
2022-02-03 - Tlacotalpan Ver. #2022 Fiestas de la Virgen de la Candelaria (fiesta completa resumida) 🤩. The 2022 Candelaria festival in Tlacotalpan. The festival on 2 February is the largest annual gathering of jarocho musicians.
2022-04-06 - CONCIERTO GRUPO MONO BLANCO DE MEXICO OAXACA PARA EL MUNDO. A full Mono Blanco concert recorded in Oaxaca. The group has toured internationally for four decades.
2022-04-13 - El Chuchumbe. Mono Blanco perform El Chuchumbe on a label channel. The Inquisition's transcription preserved verses that would otherwise be lost.
2022-04-20 - Capítulo 6. La huella africana en el son jarocho. Veracruz Afrodescendiente. The Veracruzana university channel devotes a chapter to the African imprint on son jarocho. The quijada, a donkey jawbone scraped and struck, is among the clearest African survivals.
2022 - Bulls at the Mirador San Felipe. Cattle at the lookout above the town. Coatepec, Veracruz, 2022. Coatepec sits in the coffee country of the central Veracruz highlands.
2022-08-15 - Diáspora - Sotavento: cauce y honor de la palabra (15/08/2022). Canal Once's Diáspora covers the Sotavento and the honour of the word. Sung improvised verse is as central to the tradition as the instruments.
2022-08-22 - Diáspora - Chacalapa: Al margen de un río de Camarones (22/08/2022). Canal Once's Diáspora visits Chacalapa on the Camarones river. The southern Veracruz communities are the tradition's heartland.
2022-09-07 - Documental "Toña La Negra, La sensación jarocha". A documentary on Toña La Negra, the jarocha sensation. She was among the most successful Afro-Mexican singers of the twentieth century.
2022-09-24 - La Feria de Mi Pueblo - Ecos de Chiapas y Su Marimba Orquesta (Video Oficial). Ecos de Chiapas perform with their marimba orchestra. The marimba is the dominant instrument of the neighbouring Chiapas tradition.
2022-09-25 - Quijada de Burro Capítulo 1 - Patrón de Festejo. An introduction to the quijada de burro as a percussion instrument. The teeth rattle in their sockets when the jawbone is struck.
2022-10-25 - Documental La Familia Sonera | Lo Local. A documentary on a family of son musicians. Transmission within families remains the tradition's main mechanism.
2023-04-04 - Son de Madera | Xalapa, Veracruz. The Veracruz culture secretariat films Son de Madera in Xalapa. The group has recorded for Smithsonian Folkways as well as Mexican labels.
2023-05-30 - La bruja de la Huasteca - Trio Aurora Hidalguense (Sesión En Vivo). Trío Aurora Hidalguense perform La bruja de la Huasteca. The huapango huasteco uses falsetto breaks that identify the style immediately.
2023 - Outside the Foro Boca. The silhouette of a family walking near the concert hall on the river mouth. Boca del Río, Veracruz, 2023. The Foro Boca opened in 2017 as the home of the Boca del Río Philharmonic.
2023 - Martin Lebel conducting. The principal conductor of the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra directing Stravinsky. Veracruz, 2023. The orchestra's home is the Sala Tlaqná on the university campus.
2023 - The Xalapa Symphony in concert. The orchestra playing. Xalapa, Veracruz, 2023. It has been resident at the Universidad Veracruzana since 1975.
2023-10-13 - Mono Blanco y Leombri - Concierto Completo De Túnez a Veracruz pasando Por La Habana. Mono Blanco perform a full concert with Leombri, published on their own channel. The son jarocho has proved unusually open to collaboration with other traditions.
2024-01-30 - ¿De donde proviene el arpa jarocha?. A Veracruz broadcaster asks where the jarocha harp comes from. The instrument descends from the Spanish colonial harp rather than from any indigenous form.
2024-02-15 - El Rey de la Huasteca. Trío Los Hidalguenses perform El Rey de la Huasteca. The huapango is in a fast compound metre that shifts against the melody.
2024 - A book launch in Xalapa. The presentation of Relatos tuxtlecos by Andrés Moreno Nájera, with Wendy Cao Romero and Rafael Vázquez Marcelo at the table. Xalapa, Veracruz, 2024. Los Tuxtlas is one of the heartlands of son jarocho.
2025-03-07 - 🇲🇽 CAPÍTULO 4: ¡VERACRUZ AFRODESCENDIENTE! 🔥 🇲🇽 La Música Mexicana es Africana. A documentary chapter on Afro-descendant Veracruz and its music. Mexico formally recognised Afro-Mexicans in its census only in 2015.
2025-03-30 - 🇲🇽✨Capítulo 6: La huella AFRICANA del SON JAROCHO que nadie quiere reconocer en VERACRUZ, MÉXICO🎶✨. A documentary chapter on the African trace in son jarocho. Enslaved Africans were brought to Veracruz through the port from the sixteenth century.
2025 - Totonac women at the fiesta. Women resting during the celebration of 15 September. Tepango, Puebla, 2025. The Totonac homeland runs across northern Veracruz and the Puebla sierra.
2025 - The town hall at Tepango. The municipal offices of Tepango de Rodríguez during the September celebration. Puebla, 2025. Independence night is marked in every municipal seat in the country at eleven o'clock.
2025-07-09 - Afroméxico - El sotavento afromexicano. Canal Once's Afroméxico examines the Afro-Mexican Sotavento. African descent in Veracruz is a foundational element of the music rather than an influence on it.
2025-10-15 - La Guacamaya. Mono Blanco perform La Guacamaya. Animal sones make up a large part of the traditional repertoire.
2025-10-15 - La Lloroncita. Mono Blanco perform La Lloroncita. The group's recordings are the reference versions for much of the revived repertoire.
2025-10-15 - El Hidalguense. Grupo Fantasía perform El Hidalguense. The piece is among the best known huapangos and is played far outside the region.
2025-10-20 - La bamba (son jarocho tradicional, versión infantil) – (Original). A traditional children's version of La Bamba on a label channel. Teaching the repertoire to children is central to the revival.
2026-02-02 - 🔴 Transmisión en vivo | Fiestas de la Candelaria, Tlacotalpan 2026. A live broadcast of the Candelaria festival in Tlacotalpan in 2026. The state governor's channel carried the event in full.
2026-02-02 - TLACOTALPAN VERACRUZ festividad del Día de la Candelaria 2026. The Candelaria celebration in Tlacotalpan filmed in 2026. Tlacotalpan was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1998 for its architecture.
2026 - Dawn on the Costa Esmeralda. First light on the coast. Veracruz, 2026. The Emerald Coast runs north of the port along the Gulf.