Mayabeque, Cuba_ Décimas and tonadas got to William Soler Pediatric Hospital, in the Cuban capital, in the voices of the children of the Rigoberto Riso Maldonado Repentismo Workshop, in Madruga, a municipality located about 70 kilometers from Havana. 

There they took the Punto cubano and it was a beautiful experience, because they gladdened the hearts of the hospitalized children and their families, said Adriana Fajardo, improviser of the Workshop to Radio Mayabeque Digital,.

"We are accustomed to present ourselves before an audience that goes to a specific place to listen to us, an audience that knows the Punto cubano and this time we arrived at a place where we were waited by an audience that does not know the tradition in fact, but are those who need joy and hope and that's what we did, bring them joy and hope. "

"The fact of seeing them applaud, of seeing them smile, made us realize that those children saw their aspirations pleased when they learned that we were going to the William Soler Hospital."

The city of Havana opens new opportunities to the peasant tradition, Intangible Heritage of Humanity, and the children defenders of the genre in Madruga accepted the challenge of presenting themselves before a new public.

"... it was very satisfactory, really, because in the last few months we have presented ourselves at the Ministry of Culture, the José Martí Cultural Society, the Ibero-American Center for the Décima and the Improvised Verse and in television programs for children and young people as Sopa de Palabras and Conexión, and we realize that the public of the capital also admires this tradition, is moved and understands the message we carry. "

"Next Sunday we will be in the program that is the face of the Cuban peasant tradition, Palmas y Cañas on the Cubavision Channel, celebrating the 57th anniversary of the José Martí Pioneers Organization and the 56th of the Young Communists League."

Children, like Adriana Fajardo and many others who love and promote the Cuban point in the country, constitute the main guarantee of the future of a tradition that is an essential element of Cuban culture and deserves the place that its originality and authenticity give it.

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