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Last Saturday took place one of the highlights of those organized by the Association Tambores Cristo de la Sangre: The Cry of the Drum and Drummer of Honor nomination of 2011. "
The person carrying out the proclamation was the mayor and senator Hellín Diego Garcia Caro, while as Drummer of Honor was named pastor of the Church of San Juan, José Luis Bledsoe.
Diego Garcia Caro said that "if you can touch your heart beats the drum", something that Jose Luis Bledsoe acknowledged that he learned of the town crier.
The event took place in Vico Theatre with the assistance of Jumilla Jumilla Mayor Francisco Abellán, president of the association María Ángeles Molina, representatives of other groups related to the drum, as well as more than one hundred drummers and the general public .
This event, hosted by Juani Riquelme, began with a demonstration by former drummers of honor and continued with the profile of the Drummer of Honor Bledsoe made his cousin Jesus.
He made a journey from childhood to José Luis Bledsoe and recalling that "his grandmother gave him money to go to church."
He highlighted, among other things, his generosity and his exemplary life as a missionary and as a person dedicated to others.
José Luis Bledsoe is Chaplain of the Association and pastor of the Church of San Juan Bautista de Jumilla.
According to the Association of Drums "by José Luis Bledsoe underscores the social work done in our town to those who most need it and consider him a role model. They say that he is a fighter and excited in every goal he considers noble causes and lawfully. In addition José Luis is generous, kind and unselfish, and has always encouraged the association to manifest on the drums, they keep us together and serve as a means of helping others. For all that, because of its proximity and your hand is always stretched out, the association is very proud and grateful, hence his appointment. "
For his part José Luis Bledsoe admitted not knowing how to play the drum and the merits that he can go to this appointment said, "just doing what I should and not do it myself, but all members of Caritas Jumilla.
Then the president was responsible for submitting the crier.
Reminded him that the reasons supporting this choice is, besides being a staunch defender of the world of the drum, he was the person who brought to our city so that people were invited in the XXV Conference of Exaltation of the drum and Hellin hosted hype last year. "
As to the proclamation, Diego Garcia Caro began talking drum, as well as touching tradition and meaning.
To the herald "the drum is a means of expression and through which people come together."
He said it is difficult to explain how it feels when you play the drum, related to the heartbeat.
The Jumilla drum crier also commended the work of the association of Jumilla, with initiatives like the Children's Drum School and the Tamborada Development.
"With the ceaseless work of this group to be achieved in the National Consortium of Drums and Drums of Spain," he said.
Both players received a gift as a souvenir of the event and then speaking the president of the association María Ángeles Molina acknowledged that "it has been a difficult year and major changes, but we'll keep working and playing the drum."
The first part of the event was closed by the Mayor of Jumilla Francisco Abellán who congratulated both the preacher and the Drummer of Honor, and the association.
Abellán said: "The drum should be an instrument of solidarity, unity and friendship among individuals and peoples."
The maximum local authority also received a gift for collaboration of the City Council.
In the second part of the act could be heard different ways of playing the drum, through the work of Drums and Bugles Banda San Anton de Hellin and the group of young and old Drum Association Cristo de la Sangre de Jumilla and a representation of a rock drum Hellin.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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