{"id":6850,"date":"2014-02-27T19:13:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=6850"},"modified":"2014-02-27T19:13:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:13:45","slug":"noti5359","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti5359\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMi Patria en Carnaval\u201d, the official song of the 2014 National Carnival Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><br \/>\n<TABLE class=texto width=\"90%\" border=0><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD style=\"HEIGHT: 963px\" vAlign=top width=70><IMG class=thinborderfloat1 border=0 alt=\"\u201cMi Patria en Carnaval\u201d, the official song of the 2014 National Carnival Parade\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5359_65.jpg\" width=65><\/TD><br \/>\n<TD style=\"HEIGHT: 963px\" vAlign=top width=7><BR><\/TD><br \/>\n<TD class=texto style=\"HEIGHT: 963px\" vAlign=top align=left><br \/>\n<P><STRONG><SPAN lang=EN-US>\u201cMi Patria en Carnaval\u201d, the official song of the 2014 National Carnival Parade<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><BR>Santo Domingo, February 27, 2014 <\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 35px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: chocolate; LETTER-SPACING: -6px; LINE-HEIGHT: 80%\">T<\/SPAN>he song, written by composer and singer Rold\u00e1n M\u00e1rmol, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, seeks to celebrate the excitement, warmth, and the freedom of a time when dreams and fantasy parade through the main streets of each province.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cThis song has a deep meaning for me, as it seeks to connect our national carnival to the value of our national symbols\u201d, Rold\u00e1n says.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The National Carnival Parade will take place on Sunday, March 2nd, on Av. George Washington in the National District. It will begin at 10:00 am, from the Malec\u00f3n Mall to the Macho Obelisk. Among those invited to the event are the President of the Republic, Mr. Danilo Medina S\u00e1nchez; the Vice President of the Republic, Mrs. Margarita Cede\u00f1o de Fern\u00e1ndez, and Ministers and the Ambassadors of Spain and Israel.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>This year the event will be dedicated to the eastern provinces: Monte Plata, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds, La Romana, Hig\u00fcey, Hato Mayor, and El Seibo. It will have a total of 180 troupes from the 31 provinces and the National District.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cMi Patria en Carnaval\u201d (My Country on Carnival) was released along with a music video that is available on the website of the Ministry of Culture (www.cultura.gob.do) and on the YouTube page of the Ministry. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Dary Darys, July Monte, and Magic Mej\u00eda were responsible for the musical arrangement of the song. They combined multiple native rhythms as guloya, gag\u00e1, atabales, al\u00ed bab\u00e1, and salve, and other Latin and Caribbean rhythms, until they became a song thanks to the accompaniment of the \u201cSergio Vargas Orchestra\u201d and the musicians of \u201cRold\u00e1n y Banda\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Other invited guest artists are: Edgar Molina (guloya percussion and Brazilian batucada) and Alberto Fern\u00e1ndez-Beto (Al\u00ed Bab\u00e1 drummer), and in the backup singers of the Sin Fronteras group, and the Salve de Mata los Indios group, Villa Mella. The mix was prepared by Polo Parra Studios, and the production was the responsibility of Fundaci\u00f3n Cultural Cofrad\u00eda, and Tereke Productions. <\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"WIDTH: 500px; FLOAT: left; MARGIN-LEFT: 20px\"><IMG class=thinborderfloat1 style=\"FLOAT: left\" border=0 alt=\"\u201cMi Patria en Carnaval\u201d, the official song of the 2014 National Carnival Parade\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5359_1.jpg\" width=500> <\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"WIDTH: 500px; FLOAT: left; MARGIN-LEFT: 20px\"><IMG class=thinborderfloat1 style=\"FLOAT: left\" border=0 alt=\"\u201cMi Patria en Carnaval\u201d, the official song of the 2014 National Carnival Parade\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5359_2.jpg\" width=500> <\/P><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMi Patria en Carnaval\u201d, the official song of the 2014 National Carnival ParadeSanto Domingo, February 27, 2014 The song, written by composer and singer Rold\u00e1n M\u00e1rmol, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, seeks to celebrate the excitement, warmth, and the freedom of a time when dreams and fantasy parade through the main streets of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti5359\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cMi Patria en Carnaval\u201d, the official song of the 2014 National Carnival Parade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}