{"id":68,"date":"2006-12-23T07:22:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2006\/12\/23\/que-viva-la-virgen-more-holiday-music-with-a-difference\/"},"modified":"2006-12-23T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T15:30:09","slug":"que-viva-la-virgen-more-holiday-music-with-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2006\/12\/que-viva-la-virgen-more-holiday-music-with-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Que viva la Virgen! More Holiday Music with a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recorded in a Durham church in the wee hours of a cold morning in late December last year. This is probably one of the most powerful expressions of a community of faith I have ever seen\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthousands of people bundling up the children for a trip to the church at 3 a.m. where, along with the Mariachis, they serenaded the Virgin of Guadalupe and asked for her blessing.<\/p>\n<p>Audio:<br \/>\n<a id=\"p72\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/songs-for-the-virgin-of-guadelupe-track-1.mp3\">Las Mananitas<\/a><br \/>\n<a id=\"p71\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/songs-for-the-virgin-of-guadelupe-track-2.mp3\">Song for the Virgin of Guadelupe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indyweek.com\/gyrobase\/Content?imageIndex=1&#038;oid=oid%3A25857\">Sylvia Pfeiffenbeger&#8217;s story<\/a> in the <em>Indy<\/em> from last year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By 4 a.m., some 2,000 people have arrived. A young man standing near the shrine decides: It&#8217;s time to sing <em>Las Mananitas<\/em> again, now that more people are here. Everybody sings along now with Fernando&#8217;s full lead voice, the warm, wide vibrato of trumpets, the fat plucked bass of the guitarron and the strummed ukelele-like <em>vihuela<\/em>. As silence after the last verse falls, a bracing cry spontaneously rises: <em>&#8220;Que viva la Virgen!&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indyweek.com\/gyrobase\/Content?imageIndex=1&#038;oid=oid%3A25857\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photo by Derek Anderson\" alt=\"Photo by Derek Anderson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indyweek.com\/binary\/360fc1b3\/cover-18752.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Photo by Derek Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recorded in a Durham church in the wee hours of a cold morning in late December last year. This is probably one of the most powerful expressions of a community of faith I have ever seen\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthousands of people bundling up the children for a trip to the church at 3 a.m. where, along with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}