Despite the differences of their artistic proposals, the musical groups that performed at the Chetumal Reggae Festival 2015, in the Mexican Caribbean attracted large crowds of teenagers and young adults from August 14 through 16 at the Esplanade de la Bandera and Dos Mulas beach who joined the euphoria and dancing.
Bands from Argentina, Uruguay, Belize, Jamaica, Italy and several cities of Mexico were called to play at this event, which included the presentation of a book, three lectures, an exhibition of posters alluding to reggae and a toast of honor for the fifty-third anniversary of Jamaica's independence.
The festival began on Friday 14, at the Museum of Mayan Culture, where the writer Raciel Manriquez presented the book Reggae in the Mexican Caribbean, by Arturo Montes, emphasizing his testimonial and historical content that affects the Quintana identity through a demonstration that has marked many generations. For his part, Arturo Montes told how was he interviewing various actors of gender in Quintana Roo to create a book characterized by plurivocity of, among others, musicians Benny and his group, Bosquimano, La Flota, Corpusklan, Splash ... as well as promoters and art critics.
After the book presentation, conferences were offered with sessions of questions and answers and a broad and participatory public. That same afternoon a group exhibition-coordinated by artist Michael Thompson was opened, comprising 71 posters with the theme of reggae, which include some intense symbolism and aesthetic rigor identity that after the festival were donated by the government of Jamaica to the Chetumal community.
The rest were marathon played with dissimilar levels of quality, which stood out for its sounds, more or less original, bands like Blue Hole, Belize, and Hierba Santa, from Mexico and Ki-Mani Marley, from Jamaica, who also played famous songs from his father Bob, as «Is this love», «War» and «No Woman, No Cry».
Other groups and singers who participated were Korto-Circuit Effect Dopamina, Ras Indio, Manovalanza, I & I, Fidel Nadal, Alika and y su Nueva Alianza, The Bike Tripe, Corpusklan, Chan Santa Roots, Dopa2, Ely Combo and Los Pericos, often promoted band whose popular songs border on the boundaries of pop.
Chetumal was, through the Belizean Bridge the gateway of reggae to Mexico, hcih on this side of the Caribbean settled to follow a sui generis evolution manifested in creations by local musicians and the impluse with which girls and boys danced between smoke, balloons and shouts that populated the bay.
