Mayor Carmelo Vidalin said, “Everything was falling apart on Saturday. There were people up to the treetops.”
The 50th edition of the Folklore Festival took place in Parque de la Hispanidad in Durazno last weekend and brought together around 200,000 people between Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Mayor Carmelo Vidalín told Telemundo that 52,000 visitors attended on the first day, “more than 90,000, maybe more than 100,000” on Saturday and another 60,000 on Sunday.
“Everything was torn down on Saturday—the sales area. Was full of people up to the treetops,” Vidalin said.
The mayor estimated that the call was equal to or “a little more” than the “Pilsen Rock” festivals held in the first decade of the century in the same park in the regional capital.
The high point of the attendance was the Colombian artist Carlos Vives, who was the central show on Saturday. “Singing in the South always makes my soul happy, and the road trip connects me to our first tour in Latin America, thanks to more than 90 thousand people who danced without sitting down for a second in Durazno, Uruguay,” the artist wrote on his network.
The singer received $200,000, the mayor indicated. It was the most expensive show of the weekend.
The commune does not yet have a “specific number” of the total cost of cultural activities. Still, Vidalin made an estimate: the central number was from Argentina’s Carina “La Princita” – during the “Movida Tropical” festival of the previous weekend. , “Gaucho Meetings” and folklore festivals in the same park are estimated to cost more than US$600,000.
“We’re over US$600,000 up from there. I don’t think we’ll ever get to the million-dollar mark,” the mayor summarized.
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