Veracruz is the heart of the American continent. With their religion and African slaves, Spaniards entered the new territory influencing over the former
inhabitants. The history of Veracruz is thus the history of the kind of music called Son Jarocho: Africans, Europeans and pre-Hispanic cultures melt their race, traditions and music. Black, white and red combined in a unique expression: rhythm, passion and magic. Jarocho is a lavish production that visualizes the Son Jarocho in past, present and imaginary incarnations.

The show presents a series of musical vignettes which apparently differ from one another, yet revealing they all account for the same story. Music is a combination of original compositions and traditional songs, like the world-famous La Bamba. Folkloric, Mexican, Flamenco, Afro-Cuban, Contemporary and Classical dances constitute the program.

Press reviews have called Jarocho “the most ambitious” and “the most relevant” original Mexican production of the last decades; “pioneer and avant-garde of the Mexican cultural industry, an ambitious show which levels those with high international fame.”

Jarocho is an unexpected Mexico.