Son Jarocho Music from Mexico and the Art it Inspired Betto Arcos - PRI's The World
go to original July 1, 2013

Alec Dempster is not a typical ‘Son Jarocho’ musician. He was born in Mexico City to a French mother and British father. The family moved to Toronto when he was 5.

“I grew-up playing music, studying classical guitar, but really being close to all kinds of other music that was around me. My Dad plays baroque music, he also plays Zambas Argentinas. And then I started going back to Mexico much later, I was about 18 or 19,” Dempster says.

It was during one of these trips that he discovered the southern Veracruz style called Son Jarocho. He went to the town of Santiago Tuxtla, one of the cradles of this music.

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