The cry of the Afro-Peruvian Susan Readwhich treasures 18 albums and 3 Latin Grammys, against “racist repression” in Peru opens this Thursday the XXX Festival WOMAD Cacereswhich will also feature performances by the Dutch Yin Yin, and their fusion of psychedelia and funk, and the group Gatherintegrated by the Guinean Aboubacar Sylla and musicians from Extremadura.
All of them have participated this Thursday in a joint press conference on the main stage of the Plaza Mayor in Cáceres, where Susana Baca has launched a plea against the current President of Peru, Dina Boluarteof which he has indicated that “should be tried for crimes against humanity.”
“Boluarte has disqualified himself because under his command 80 people have been murdered; without counting injuries”, Baca lamented about the riots due to the protests in the street.
“People have the right to protest, to take to the streets. This lady should have a trial against humanity; when she leaves office, we will be left with a great wound in Peru, ”she added.
WOMAD 2023 program
The festival, organized by the Consortium of the Gran Teatro de Cáceres and directed and produced by DD&Company Producciones, will also take the WOMAD stage on this first day to the Dutch Yin Yin, who in the meeting with the press highlighted “the great energy of the public ” that they felt when they played in Las Palmas last year.
For its part, the African fusion trio Sanke (Guinea/Spain) has conveyed its “illusion” for being the band chosen to raise the curtain on the concerts this Thursday, at 8:30 p.m., of this edition of WOMAD that lands with fewer bands than in previous editions with the premise of offering more time on stage to the selected artists.
The director of the festival, Dania Dévora, has told Efe that it is an event of “shared emotion” where the artists “go on stage to say what they feel.”
This year’s poster is the work of the Chilean artist Gonzo Martínez and a collaborator of the festival for years, in which WOMAD Cáceres is announced as the great Festival of the World on a toned photo of a part of the Palacio de los Golfines de Abajo, with the black figure of the lion that symbolizes the contest