There shall be a guateque on the Plaza de la Independencia in La Herradura tonight, beginning at 22.00h
OK, what the hell is a guateque? A guateque is a form of house-party which had been very fashionable within the 60s in Spain earlier than the arrival of discotheques.
Younger individuals would go to one another’s homes (when the mother and father weren’t there) or flats in the event that they had been emancipated, and produce their very own booze and information… to be performed on the previous, suitcase-style, mono, document gamers, naturally. All of us had one, proper?
The place did the phrase come from? I knew you’d ask, so I seemed it up: guateque owes its origins to Spanish immigrants coming back from the Caribbean the place they went to make their fortune.
They not solely introduced again the cash, but additionally Caribbean-Spanish vocabulary, amongst them, guateque which accurately meant a gathering for a household feast. In Spain it adopted that line till it lastly simply meant a kids’ celebration the place they’d hearken to pop music and get sloshed.
Anyway, radio DJ, Moisés Franco, shall be taking part in numbers from the 60’s by way of to the 90s on this end-of-summer fiesta to enliven the village.
Lastly, there shall be a bar on the sq., whose proceeds will go to the most cancers affiliation, AECC de Almuñécar, so you’ll be able to help a bloody-good trigger, too!
(Information: Herradura, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)
