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Culebra Foundation celebrates 30 years between history and music: “We are defending the culture of our island”

The community organization, founded in 1994, remains committed to preserving the island’s traditions and passing them on to the younger generations

September 30, 2024 - 7:03 PM

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Members of the band “Steel Drums”, from the program Música Pa' Culebra, offered by the Fundación de Culebra, play several songs at the Antigua Escuela del Pueblo. (Carlos Rivera Giusti)

By Génesis Ibarra Vázquez

Periodista de Noticiasgenesis.ibarra@gfrmedia.com

Culebra - For 12 teenagers from Culebra, the world stops for a few moments on a rainy afternoon in September, when their hands begin to play the metal drums that give life to the rhythm of calypso. Within the four walls of the hall, they forget the leaks in the ceiling of the corridors and the holes in the floor where they walk; the only thing that matters is the rumbling of the music coming from the drones.