The annual Fiesta de la Música will be held in places all over the Central Valley Saturday, including Parque Francia in Barrio Escalante. The musicians will play from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m and sometimes even later, according to event planners.
This is the annual festival sponsored by the French Embassy, Alianza Francesa, Hotel 1492 and the Banco de Costa Rica among others, according to an embassy release.
The festival will feature a wide array of music, including pop, Latin rock, live bands and experimental performers according to Sabrina Vargas, a Barrio Escalante hotel manager who is participating in the event.
The embassy, in conjunction with the Ministra de Cultura y Juventud, has celebrated a music festival each year beginning in 2003 on June 21 according to the Alianza Francesa Web site.
At the Museos del Banco Central under the Plaza de la Cultura, jazz groups, tango musicians and others will entertain from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the museums said.
Other groups will be performing at the Plaza del Sol in Curridabat, at several plazas in the downtown and along Avenida Central. Parque Central and the park in Moravia also will be sites for musicians.
In addition to the Barrio Escalante park, the Liceo Franco Costarricense in Tres Rios also will be a center for music from early afternoon to evening. Other sites will be San Jerónimo de Moravia and Ribera de Belén
The government of France has been sponsoring this activity all over the world since 1982.
Story by the A.M. Costa Rica
