Rio Manzanares - The Story of a Song

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[michaeldjoseph]

Beautiful song, reminicient of Christmas time Parang singing in Trinidad.

Why though is it sung at Christmas time and often happily and joyfully? It does not seem to be related to Christmas.

[ricardusfilipus]

@michaeldjoseph

We Parranderos play that song throughout the year. It's just that you hear it only at Christmas time on radio and TV

[ricardusfilipus]

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[Trinicoffee]

I LOVE THIS SONG!!! I love my country Trinidad and Tobago.. we have a diverse set of races and inter-breeding so there are alot of ppl who are mixed race like me....

becuz of the spanish rule right (before the english came) we have such great music call parang... this is a event that takes place around christmas time.. it is the best! great food, great music, dancing galore!!! thanks for posting this song i was lookin for this long time...

[chsn09]

@MerchantofTarshish Look up Arima Trinidad. That maintains the oldest Spanish/Hispanic prescence and contact in Trinidad going back to 1490s and especially the early 1500s

[MerchantofTarshish]

I spent several years going to the venezuelan embassy's conversation club and I know from this that this song is known in venezuela but they do not sing it as a "parranda"

There was a guy in the embassy who was saying that our parang is like their eastern venezuelan "parranda" and it is obvious that the migrations of venezuelans to trinidad in the 1800s had an influence on our culture

[gigidetrini]

@fatNightCAT lots of parang available online...I have also some vids posted...you can find some lyrics here wwwDOTparangDOTitgoDOTcom/lyri­csDOThtml (DOT=punto, full stop)

[Trinicoffee]

@MerchantofTarshish ...ok that is really good info ....thanks for that .....i didn't know that.. and i always wondered the origins of the term cocoa panols!!! this is excellent.....



[MerchantofTarshish]

@Trinicoffee This is not due to spanish rule. There were three large migrations of venezuelans to Trinidad. iN 1814 about 4000 spanish and spanish creoles fled venezuela due to internal conflicts in venezuela (some names like Navarro, Bermudez etc seem to be of venezuelan origin) Then in 1870 alot of venezuelans settled in the Arima and the east and planted cacao. They became known as cocoa panols (pacheco and Pazos families are derived from this period)

[fatNightCAT]

@cascaret hasta la "Sonora Matancera" hizo una version de esta cancion, que bien que en Trinidad y Tobago mantengan esta tradicion de puro origen Venezolano con tanto entusiasmo y colorido festivo. Demuestran mucho del espiritu original que se ha perdido en Venezuela.

[fatNightCAT]

@MerchantofTarshish That's right "THEY DON'T TELL PEOPLE THAT" is a very true overlooked statement.. which might show some kind of resentment toward the Venezuelan nature and influence of this music in Trinidad, it is a paradox in itself, but is a very common posture from West Indies and dutch colony islands, as their colons (North Europeans, English, Holand) they have a cultural resentment toward southern European culture, as well to spanish colonies, now days you can see this still happening

[fatNightCAT]

@leomx45 es venezolana del autor venezolano Jose Antonio Lopes (23 marzo 1918) a los 10 anos aprende a tocar 4 a los 13 queda ciego, a los 15 aprende la guitarra y luego se convierte en un maestro, otras canciones reconocidas del autor: "Juaramento", "Alma Cumanesa".

Rio Manzanares originalmente interpretado como "Golpe Oriental" muy parecido al "Merengue Caraqueno" en 6x8 al igual que la "Parranda Venezolana" y aqui como "Parang o Parrang"

[fatNightCAT]

@chsn09 hey guys, I know this conversation happened long ago, just wanted to mention to you not only PARRANDA is a venezuelan style of music that influenced PARANG but in the othere hand also there is venezuelan CALIPSO developed by the migrations of Trinitarians and "simarrones" slaves (african slaves escaped from Trinidad to Venezuela) but in Venezuela the Calipso persussion was kept alive and is played with its original drums, prohibited in Trinidad by the English colony

[fatNightCAT]

@Trinicoffee Yes this is wonderful, this a Venezuelan song not Spanish, and is a venezuelan originated style of music for christmast, and this song in particular was composed by Jose Antonio Lopez, it is a "Golpe Oriental" talks about a son that wants to see his ill mother at the other side of "Rio Manzanares" (Located in Venezuela) not only played in christmas, but as elementary school presentations and festivities happen in December it was most heard in this time of year, beautiful rendition

[fatNightCAT]

@michaeldjoseph I have just discovered PARANG a couple of years ago, is incredible happy Christmas music as its foundation PARRANDA (grupo informal de musica decembrina) all this "clasical" songs we learn and sing in Venezuela in elementary school for christmas, based on "FULIA" rhythms, "TAMUNANGUE" "POLO MARGARITENO" and even "GAITA ZULIANA".

As a Venezuelan is a revelation to hear this beautiful joyful happy un-stressful Venezuelan music sung by Trinitarians and Tobago..beautiful rendition