Merengue singer Elvis Crespo will perform at Caguas’s Encendido de la Navidad Criolla (Lighting of the Creole Christmas) on Friday, November 27, starting at 5:00 PM in the town’s urban center, the Caguas municipal government announced. Crespo will take the stage at the Paseo de las Artes, where the Taller Típico Criollo, Willie González, Andrés Jiménez and La Sonora Ponceña will also perform, and he will close that stage’s music program.
The celebration will feature two other stages. According to the schedule published on the Caguas municipal government’s official page, René González, Danny Rivera, Plenéalo, Sergio Vargas and Maelo Ruiz will perform at the Plaza Santiago R. Palmer, while the Paseo Gautier Benítez will host the Coral Criolla, Herminio de Jesús, Hermes Croatto, Giro and Giselle.
The event will bring musical shows to different points of the town’s urban core as part of the start of the Christmas celebrations. The cost of the activity was not specified.