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"Las Mañanitas" Spanish pronunciation: [las maɲaˈnitas] is a traditional Mexican [1] birthday song written by Mexican composer Alfonso Esparza Oteo. It is popular in Mexico, usually sung early in the morning to awaken the birthday person, and especially as part of the custom of serenading women.
Las Mañanitas. Las Mañanitas is an annual event held in Ponce, Puerto Rico, dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe. It consists of a pre-dawn popular parade, followed by a Catholic Mass, and a breakfast for attendees hosted by the municipal government. [1] It takes place every 12 December, and is sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponce ...
Virgin of Guadalupe Patron saint. Fiestas patronales de Ponce is an annual cultural celebration held at Plaza Las Delicias in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The celebration, which commonly lasts three days, takes place in late December. Ponce's Fiestas patronales are heavily influenced by Spanish culture and religion, and are a tradition held in honor of ...
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Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord —"musical chord, concord of sounds") [ 1 ] are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows -driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame). The essential characteristic of the accordion is to combine in one instrument a melody ...
A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments. It is a type of button accordion on which the melody -side keyboard contains one or more rows of buttons, with each row producing the notes of a single diatonic scale. The buttons on the bass -side keyboard are most commonly arranged in ...
Las Jilguerillas was a Mexican ranchera duo that was formed in the mid-1950s by sisters Imelda and María Amparo Higuera. [1] The municipal president of Numarán considers them icons of ranchera music, [2] and they have had several successful tours in both Mexico and the United States. [3] They have also have appeared in several Mexican films.
Four agricultural workers in Washington state were recently diagnosed with avian influenza A (H5N1). The cases mark the first human infections of the disease under investigation in the state.