Camagüey.- La Décima Campesina and the Cuban punto are an expression of identity and heritage and according to musicologists, like almost all Cuban music that draws on European and African elements, this genre is based on its Hispanic antecedents.
In Camagüey there is a long tradition of this genre and poetic expression that is growing more and more, as new exponents emerge every day guided by their teachers, those great decimists whose names are synonymous with identity and autochthony, Nelson Lima, Héctor Peláez and Eneida Sosa.
It is in different spaces that this art grows, one of them the Peña Gabriel Llanes in Memorian, which takes place every month at the Ateneo-Vietnam Librería Cultural Center and has already accumulated SEVEN years of its development.
New and experienced generations converge there in a harmonious whole where art, poetry and the Cuban point come together in a real peasant gathering.
Héctor Peláez, the minstrel of the plain, one of the founders of the proposal explained that the idea was born as a way to prestige this art together with his improvisation partner Gabriel Llanes.
Over time this space was transformed into a kind of oasis where lovers of the genre could find a place to perform and currently it is a school for young people approaching the peasant tenth.
For Héctor Peláez, this festival, which takes place every third Thursday of the month, is the most special thing that the Agramonte territory currently has in terms of décima.
In December 2017, the Cuban point was declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. It was born in the Cuban countryside and is a form of artistic and cultural expression that bears witness to the diversity of intangible heritage that exists in the world. (Taken from Radio Cadena Agramonte)
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