Celebrate Mexico NOW: Coro Acardenchado

On November 23, we will host this concert in person, and tickets are free. 
Video of the concert will be released at a later date. Remember to follow us to watch this and other exciting performances. 

Coro Acardenchado is a choral music project founded by Juan Pablo Villa in 2016 whose purpose is to preserve and disseminate the canto cardenche style through community singing. The ensemble was founded and is directed by Villa in collaboration with María Emilia Martínez and Leika Mochán. 

This extraordinary genre of Mexican traditional music, little known outside the country, originated among the farmhands in the northern state of Durango at the end of the 19th century. The plaintive songs are performed by singers without instrumental accompaniment and the style takes its name from the thorns of a cactus plant, whose removal is painful but necessary.

They have performed on the most important stages in Mexico, including the Festival Cervantino in Guanajuato and the Centro Cultural de España in Mexico City. They've also produced online concerts during the pandemic and released two albums: Aquellos otros and Arrullos mexicanos. Their latest show, El Cardo en Flor, has been presented in venues in Mexico City and Guanajuato. 

Their concerts offer the audience a unique musical experience, different from that of a traditional choir, including the truthful adaptation and creative re-imagining of traditional songs and stage settings that include choreography and extended vocal techniques.