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Saturday, December 5, 2009 / 8pm

NAVIDAD
PARA EL PUEBLO

Celebrating the Holiday Season, Jíbaro Style!

Featuring “El Topo” Antonio Caban Vale,
Yomo Toro
& Zon del Barrio
Choreographed by Danza Fiesta


Tickets: $45, $40, $35, $30


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Aurora Communications, Inc.

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Yomo interviews himself!

My name is Yomo Toro. I was born in the southwestern part of Puerto Rico, in a village called Guánica, in a neighborhood called Ensenada where there was a sugar cane processing factory--one of the largest in the Antilles--actually, I think it was the second biggest (the biggest was in Cuba), the second biggest of the Antilles. It was in Guánica. It was called the South Porto [sic] Rican Sugar Company. The neighborhood folks made their living there, they worked at the processing factory. Some did one thing, others did something else. My father was a "technician," in other words, he drove. He was a driver, he drove the machines that loaded the cane that arrived for the mill. There were four mills.


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