One of the highlights of the quarter, within the cultural agenda, were the conference and photo exhibition on the "Orchestra of Jumilla in the second half of the twentieth century", with which it has become a historical journey through the formations Jumilla music of the last century.
The exhibition was inaugurated last Friday, and will be open until May 20 at the Museum of Ethnography and Natural Sciences.
It collected more than thirty photographs, where you can check the rich history that has Jumilla in terms of musical groups, with more than thirty bands and music groups documented in the last 60 years.
Since 49 until the most recent in 1999, the exhibition recalls Jumilla mythical groups like "1153", "Uncle Cubi", "The Orchestra Santos", "The Bolero", "Modern" or "The Yulis" .
Advancing the decades, in the 70s, burst the more international influences with "Aples 1", "Aples 2" or "Explosion X", reaching the most modern exhibition, "Salicornios", "Midas" "Manholes" to the most recent, "Cucubeos".
Museum director, Cayetano Herrero, stressed the documentary work associated with this exposure, and thanked the musicians their collaboration to organize this exhibition, "without your help would not have been possible," he stressed about it.
For his part, the Head of Culture, Andres Martinez, emphasized as "Cayetano has powers, because within two weeks, has made us go back in time up to three times, with an exhibition of priceless documentary value for Jumilla".
The exhibition will be open until May 20, and with it ends the cycle conference that the Department of Culture organized on the occasion of this exhibition.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla