This year the Fourteenth Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival will welcome guests from Mexico. The country of tropical jungles and dry deserts will be represented by the Military Band of the Mexican Ministry of Defense. The 2021 Festival will unfold on Moscow’s Red Square from August 27 to September 5 in the COVID free format.
The Military Band of the Mexican Armed Forces enjoys huge popularity both at home and abroad. Keeping its history from 1889, the ensemble is a regular participant of different international festivals and fora. Musicians have already performed at the Saumur International Festival of Military Bands (France) and TATTOO MILITAR CHILE in Santiago (Chile). Russian audiences had the honors to meet the band back at the 2015 Spasskaya Tower Festival run. Back then the ensemble went under the name the Representative Music Band of the Mexican Armed Forces. In 2015 the group recorded two Cds.
Since the inception the group has changed its name several times. In 1889, with General Porfirio Diaz as President of Mexico, the ensemble was known as the Music Band of the Supreme Power and led by Maestro Encarnación Payen. In 1910 following the Mexican Revolution all military bands seized their activities. Later, in 1929, four new military music groups were formed under command of the Army and Navy General Staffs.
This year in Moscow our guests from Mexico will perform a very popular 'Guadalajara' mariachi song written and composed by Pepe Guízar to honor his native city, capital of Jalisco state. Actually, the composition is familiar to Russian audiences as well. The band’s performance will also feature such