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Article: FIESTAS OF THE LATIN SPIRIT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 26, 1994
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WORCESTER -- The rich acoustic guitars of Hartford's Canto Isleno
had quieted down, and the romantic strains of their intricate seises
and aguinaldos -- traditional Puerto Rican folk music -- were still
ringing in the air around City Hall. Virgilio Cruz, the bandleader,
had barely stepped off the stage onto the ground, where about 15,000
people were gathered, when it happened: Lt. Gov. Paul Cellucci took
the microphone.
Standing on one of the two stages set up for the Latin American
Festival of Worcester, Cellucci sandwiched a short political speech
between performances by Canto Isleno and the Mariachis Guadalajara de
Pepe Gutierrez. Against a backdrop of children zipping down a giant
slide ...