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The Bolero Festival and World Congress will be held in Mexico City on August 25-28 and will feature Cuban singers Maria Elena Pena, Daniel Herrera and Camilo Mederos.

Also taking part in the Festival, dedicated to singers Armando Manzanero, Lucho Gatica and Marco Antonio Muniz, will be interpreters from Panama, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Spain and Argentina, ACN reported on August 15.

In addition, there will be musicians from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the United States, Chile, Ukraine and Brazil and the host country, who will be accompanied by the Mexican Orchestra of Bolero, all under the artistic direction of Mexican singer Rodrigo de la Cadena, a regular figure in the Golden Bolero festivals organized by Cuba.

Organized by the Institute for the Preservation and Development of Bolero in Mexico AC, the Festival will include gala concerts on August 26, 27 and 28, at the Esperanza Iris Grand Theater of the City, while the Congress or theoretical meeting (the same days) will take place at the Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico.

During the meeting there will be round tables with communities of heritage carriers, in order to find elements to be included in the file for the nomination of Bolero as Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The Aztec nation, Cuba and other countries in the region excel for having had throughout more than a century important composers and performers of bolero, considered to be the most romantic of musical genres.