Mayo Gallo Rock Festival at M100
For the first time, and through the website of the Matucana 100 Cultural Center, the fifth version of the rock festival ‘Mayo Gallo’ will be broadcast. The musical contest, organized by the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes of Mexico and aimed mainly at its student community and the general public.
“The Mayo Gallo Festival is a musical celebration organized by uaA as a gift for students to celebrate student month. It has been made year after year with important national bands, and this is the first time that we will have the participation of a foreign band such as ‘Children of cerro’. With them we devise to do something together to give an internationalization to the contest, which will be transmitted by the web platform of the Matucana 100 Cultural Center,” says Juan Pablo Castañeda, curator of the contest.
On this show, unique in Chile, Cristóbal Gumucio, executive director of the Matucana 100 Cultural Center, states that: “We are very happy with this alliance that we are making with the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, and that will allow us to show the work of bands from Mexico and Chile and internationalize the careers of the artists who will perform there”.
The Mexican bands that will be present this year will be Los Chulitos, PajarosKaidos, Sex Catrina, Los Daniels, and the group that represents our country, Niños del Cerro. Mayo Gallo is a rock-oriented music festival, and its name takes up two elements: the rooster, official auHA mascot, and May, the month in which it celebrates student day in Mexico and in which the festival takes place every year. An event that was born in 2016 and has come to be attended by nearly 6,000 people each year.
From its creation to date have gone through the music contest rock bands such as Blue Nipples, Mexica Clicka, The Wolf and The Deer, Biztec, Seathebay, Little Jesus, 60 Tigers and The Romantics of Zacatecas, Parallels, Punto, Yoga Fire, Kill The Clowns, Sound San Francisco and Allison.
