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Live interview of Carlos Mancilla - leader of Mariachi Quetzal - Mariachi Quetzal de Suizatitlan
Live performance for the Mexican independence day - Artways Productions
Live concert at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich - Artways Productions
Mariachi Quetzal - music & Dance.
Who says Mexico - says also music and dance. The expo in Balexert is not limited therefore presenting music groups - like Mariachi Quetzal who are based in Geneva.
This band is composed between 6 to 8 artists and playing traditional Mexican music.
The atmosphere was very joyful and the musicians knew how to handle their public to make them sing and dance for hours!
Quetzal means "with feathers" in the nahuatl language and synthesize the powers of the sky, sun, rain, wind.
It is also the name of a colorful bird.
Robert Green - Tribune du Commerce
Saturday evening, in the theater room Jeanne D'Arc, we were very far from the cold, snow and night for an evening in January. Through the magic of the group MARIACHI QUETZAL, the audience was transported to the heat and the sunny shores of Mexico and Latin America.
MARIACHI QUETZAL is a group in traditional costumes with the big hats immortalized by Zapatta or Panchouilla, the heros of the Mexican Revolution. It was a real party!. The group MARIACHI QUETZAL specializes in different styles of Mexican folk music. Musicians use strings instruments in the Mexican folk tradition (harp, vihuela, guitar, violin, guitaron, trumpet) with a Mexican singer. The musicians were able to communicate with the public and convey their passion, warmth and a sense of festivity and friendliness of Latin American people.
Ronaldo Seti - Quotiden France
Discography
No discography - only the demo
Mariachi Queztal is recording this Summer and will release the album early 2013.
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Bio
QUETZAL Mariachi was composed by Mexican guitarist Carlos Mancilla who immigrated to Switzerland from Mexico city. Making his way into Europe, he composed QUETZAL and started touring in Europe for all kind of events.
Mariachi goes beyond music, it is the sum of a cultural revolution expressed through a group of musicians, dressed in popular clothing (most recently charro suits) which encompasses the essence of Mexico and its people. It is something cultural, spiritual and traditional that is unique to this country, an experience not to be missed.
The word Mariachi refers to the musicians now commonly seen in restaurants or strolling the streets, dressed in silver studded charro outfits with wide brimmed hats playing a variety of instruments which include violins, guitars, basses, vihuelas (a 5 string guitar) and trumpets.
Their songs speak about machismo, love, betrayal, death, politics, revolutionary heroes and even animals (one particularly famous song is "La Cucaracha").
only thing more Mexican than tequila is mariachi and it seems a shame to have one without the other.
The instruments were intended to be used during masses but the criollos (Mexicans of Spanish descent) began using them to make popular music as well, much to the chagrin of the priests, since they were used to accompany some of the more scandalous, satirical or anticlerical couplets of the times.
Today, mariachi music is played around the world in places as far away as Japan and Europe. This integral part of Mexico's culture and history is celebrated each September in its birth place, Jalisco.
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