MUSIC, DANCE AND POPULAR PARTIES

NATIVE MUSIC AND DANCE
Santiaguenian people express their culture through music. The music teaches and report. This expresses more than melodic chores; it show their ancestral life. Their popular songs colour the Santiaguenian landscape and show how the Santiaguenian is: calm, passive and shaped by traditions and landscapes.
Music is in Santiaguenian daily life. Music expresses happiness and sadness, farewells and encounters, friendship, religion, love and Quichua language. It calls up to traditions; popular characters and stories; myths and legends that are part of the popular imagination. Music is ancestral philosophy, feelings and life.
POPULAR SANTIAGUENIAN PARTIES
Santiaguenian combine their beliefs with indigenous and religious elements that have purity and genuine inside.
They have rites, celebrations, traditions, music, food, myths and evocations where they show their happiness, afraid, wishes and sadness.
The popular liturgy adores saints and virgins from the beginnings of regional Christianity. They also adore to some others and have a strong faith on gods known through legends.