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Posted by wendy joscelyn Email User on February 1, 2017, 4:41 pm

Whatever happened to rodeo ???
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Re: rodeo

Posted by Donna G Bulger Email User on February 1, 2017, 4:54 pm, in reply to "rodeo"

It starts Friday night with the farola in the jardin and goes thru Monday.
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Posted by Kimberly otvos Email User on February 1, 2017, 10:48 pm, in reply to "Re: rodeo"

Plus the Boca beach party will be happening feb.3-6...it will be a hopping weekend!!!
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Re: rodeo

Posted by evelyn Email User on February 2, 2017, 9:19 am, in reply to "Re: rodeo"

The Farola is actually tonight, Thursday. The rodeo runs until Monday with the Ejidal lunch on that day. There's a schedule at the Ejidal office.
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Posted by Carol Lopez Email User on February 2, 2017, 10:01 am, in reply to "Re: rodeo"

Does the schedule say whether there is a party in the Casino on Monday night, or does the fiesta end with the lunch and Banda music (from 2:00 - 4:00 usually) on Monday?
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Posted by JoAnn H. Email User on February 2, 2017, 6:03 pm, in reply to "Re: rodeo"

What is the Farola?
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Re: rodeo

Posted by Rob L Email User on February 2, 2017, 8:51 pm, in reply to "rodeo"

The farola is a lantern held high on a stick and paraded through town.

Check the link below for more information posted in 2014 on the la-manzanilla.blogspot.mx site. The date and time info would not necessarily correspond to the rodeo this weekend as there is no longer a gringo day

http://la-manzanilla.blogspot.mx/2014/02/la-manzanilla-rodeo-and-gringo-day.html
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Re: rodeo

Posted by Daniel H Email User on February 2, 2017, 9:32 pm, in reply to "Re: rodeo"

Not a lantern but a spinning sign. The general idea is for the dancing crowd
to stay behind the spinning sign. The spinner of the sign creates chaos by altering
their forward progress and regressing back into the crowd creating a whip out of
the people who are dancing arms interlocked. So fun, pure Mexico!

http://www.lamanzanilla.info/la_manzanilla_message_board/12-12-03_to_13-03-08/msg/1359729551.html

http://www.lamanzanilla.info/la_manzanilla_message_board/12-12-03_to_13-03-08/msg/1360124793.html

http://www.lamanzanilla.info/la_manzanilla_message_board/11-12-14_to_12-04-28/msg/1328147668.html
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Re: rodeo

Posted by Rob L Email User on February 2, 2017, 11:07 pm, in reply to "Re: rodeo"

I stand corrected! Thank you Daniel
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Re: rodeo

Posted by Cruz Email User on February 3, 2017, 10:13 am, in reply to "Re: rodeo"

Hola, hola. I believe both of you, Rob and Daniel, are correct. And it's just the timing. Here is my dos centavos.

Farola means street light or lamppost. In the times before us, an actual 'lantern' or light of some kind was used to lead the crowd and hence the event became the 'Farola'. This light thing evolved into the present square box that is twirled by those energetic men and women. I still tend to see it as a lantern that lights the way to all of the following anniversay events.

I know I am being nit-picky but it is a way of 'lightening' these tumultuous times, Cruz
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Re: rodeo

Posted by Carol Lopez Email User on February 3, 2017, 10:50 am, in reply to "Re: rodeo"

Thanks for that, Cruz...I've always wondered why
the twirling sign?

Now you've got my brain twirling - again!

If it were me carrying that farola, it would be made of
something lighter - like manta (white traditional
cotton fabric), with the messages painted on all sides, and
stretched over a light wooden frame, and then have a solar
light mounted inside, so it would still be a lantern, because the manta is translucent.

In my next life, when I come back as a farola carrier...?
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Re: rodeo

Posted by Cruz Email User on February 3, 2017, 1:51 pm, in reply to "Re: rodeo"

Hola, Carol. Now the twirling, that's another story and how did that happen? Anybody know?Cruz
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