The Orchestra the Macabeo denounced that his presentation tonight on one of the platforms of the San Sebastian Street Parties It was canceled after event organizers censored the shirt of one of their musicians.
In conversation with El Nuevo Día, Luis de la Rosa, vocalist of the group, said that “one of the people on the production team approached one of the trumpeters and told him they had problems with the shirt.”
Horacio Alcaraz, one of the Macabeo musicians, was wearing a shirt that read “I hate Thomas Rivera Schatz”.
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Posted by Orchestra the Macabeo on Saturday, January 18, 2020
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De la Rosa said that “we understood that this was censorship of the partner and the orchestra” and decided that Alcaraz would not change.
“Another person arrived from the municipality who said that if he did not take off his shirt they would not let us participate. After a while, they told us they were the buses (to get them out of San Juan). Escorts from the municipality appeared who took us out of the waiting area and, basically, they expelled us to the Central Park area, which is where the artists’ parking lot is. “
The orchestra, which has 13 members, will not receive the agreed contract payment, $ 5,000. They were told that they could claim through an administrative complaint.
Itinerary for today Saturday, January 18.
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“We are an independent orchestra. We have no kids to face a legal process against the Municipality. We want to make it clear that they censored and expelled the orchestra before the presentation,” he said.
He added that they were never told of a dress code and that they also did not coordinate how to dress. Alcaraz arrived with that shirt.
The Macabeo is no stranger to the Fiestas of San Sebastián Street. De la Rosa told this media that “this is like the seventh year we played at the Fiestas” and that they never had a problem like this.
The new day He tried to obtain expressions of the Municipality of San Juan, but, so far, they have not answered.
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