MEXICO CITY (AP) — Greater than 1,000 mariachis accrued in Mexico Town’s major plaza Sunday, strumming guitars and making a song classics like “Cielito Lindo” to finish a mariachi congress celebrating the musical shape.
The collection of musicians it appears crowned the former file of 700 mariachis at an previous collecting within the Mexican town of Guadalajara.
The Guinness International Information group hasn’t answered a message from The Related Press asking whether or not Sunday’s collecting broke the former file.
The musicians, a lot of whom had arrived in Mexico’s capital from different towns, expressed their pleasure at making a song within the massive iconic plaza, pronouncing the track is a circle of relatives custom they begin studying at a tender age.
Jesús Morales mentioned his father taught him to play the violin at age 8, and at 13 he started taking part in along with his uncles within the Mariachi Morales within the town of Hidalgo.
“The heritage that my dad principally instilled in us is having recognize for track and recognize for our roots,” he mentioned.
The mariachis performed guitars, trumpets, violins and different tools.
Aida Juárez is a mariachi with twenty years of revel in. She is a pioneer of girls’s mariachi teams.
“We really feel proud that we broke (the file) this is a delight as a result of we’re Mexicans,” she mentioned.
Diana Rocío Campos is a service provider who attended the development and loves the track.
“Any person who listens to (the mariachi) will get very excited, whether or not they’re Mexican or now not,” she mentioned. “Other folks come from many nations like Colombia or Japan” to hear the mariachis.