A communication error. And that’s how it happened Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (ICP) cataloged the situation that has occurred and which was denounced this morning by the singer-musician-composer Andrés Jiménez, “El Jibaro”when he learned through social networks that he would no longer be part of the multidisciplinary artistic event “The Campechada”.
The event, which will take place this year on February 18 and 19, 2023 in the city of Bayamón, will pay tribute to the singer Jesús Sánchez Erazo, known as “Chuíto el de Bayamón”, who will have a varied artistic and cultural program, the details of which were announced on Tuesday at a press conference at the Oller Theater in Bayamón.
“Although it is true that the Institute had an approach to participating in ‘La Campechada’ Bayamón with Andrés Jiménez, we carry out this exercise with countless artists as part of the logistics of the event. In this case we identify a set of resources. However, the Municipality of Bayamón also had a resource portfolio with a list of artists and, unfortunately, during the process with the question of confirming the artists, identified the schedules that were sometimes contradictory and different proposals, because unfortunately it was a mistake on our part not to see the artist on time Leave a Comment. That decision had to be made.”El Nuevo Día explained by phone, Albeyra Rodriguezis the Director of the Arts Support Office of the ICP.
While the release clarified that no contract was signed by the artist, Jiménez indicated on his Facebook account that his presentation was confirmed for Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. on the stage line.
However, Rodríguez assumed that since there will be a campechada in San Germán this year, Jiménez’s participation was not canceled but postponed to the next celebration if he agreed. By confirming that they communicated late with the artist’s manager Coming from Orocovis, they informed him of the decision “knowing the history of the character of Andrés Jiménez to have him as the culmination of this event”.
In fact, he pointed out that “La Campechada Bayamón” was originally scheduled to be held in November, but due to logistical problems and the change in calendar following the passage of Hurricane Fiona last September, the new date was set.
For her part, Anamaris Santiago, programmatic contact for La Campechada, also took the opportunity to clarify that “this is not a personal matter against any particular artist” and reiterated that it was a matter of logistics. “We prefer to move his participation to San Germán as we appreciate and know the great artist that he is. In other words, it is not a cancellation but a postponement to another “campechada”. That’s why we’re addressing the artist, because we recognize his great work for our country’s culture,” he said.
When asked by El Nuevo Día whether the response of the singer and his manager to the proposal to postpone their participation in the Campechada in San Germán was affirmative, Santiago said that at this time they were not offered a positive or negative answer due to became uneasiness about the situation.
“I understand it wasn’t the best moment because obviously we understand the uneasiness of the artist and his manager. At that time they didn’t give us a positive answer because now, in February, they only focused on La Campechana. So it wasn’t like we got a positive or negative response. I think that perhaps this topic has not been paid attention to, but we are very confident that this topic can be taken up again and that we can count on them for the campechada in November.said the program link of “La Campechada”.
Although they pointed out that on this occasion for the first time a municipality contributes with its means to make the event varied and to have a varied music offer, in this case the Municipality of BayamonBoth affirmed that this had nothing to do with the determination to move the troubadour to San Germán.
“It’s a community-moving event, depending on the artist that ‘Campechada’ is inspired by, but it remains an ICP event. When we made the decision to bring it to Bayamón, inspired by “Chuíto, el de Bayamón”, the community, which is very excited, also brings talent to the stage and it is something that has never happened to us, for what we are very thankful. . When we sat down to discuss the program we realized that we had more than expected, much more because the community had also contributed to the event with selected talent and decisions had to be made on that basis.”repeated Santiago.