Drummer’s Day: 50 musicians will celebrate it with great fanfare in Rosario, why this weekend?

On Saturday, 50 drummers will converge on the steps of Parque España in Rosario to pay homage to the greats. Oscar Moreau (Los Gatos, La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, Serú Girán, Riff), 17 years after his death.

behind the initiative Norberto “Dube” RamosRosario is the drummer and lover of Moro’s life and work. This started in 2015, when a drummer from Buenos Aires, Robert BakerHe began collecting signatures until July 11, the day he died Oscar Moreau In 2006, Drummer’s Day will be declared, ”Norberto recalls in an interview Rolling Stone. “We had a mutual friend who said to me ‘Honor Oscar in Rosario, if Oscar is from Rosario.’ Well, he poked me, that was the chance,” says the former member of the group. oasis from that city (it’s worth clarifying: people from Rosario were formed two decades before people from Manchester).

Norberto dreamed of collecting 100 batteries at the Flag Monument. That’s why I called another colleague, Omar BogonzaAnd in 2016 they were able to implement the project with the help of the city’s Ministry of Culture. The tribute was in full, as they also managed to unearth a painting of Oscar Moreau On the corner of Buenos Aires and Rioja, in the La buen medida bar, next to the house where the legendary drummer lives.

For various reasons, the event could not be held in the following years. Then came the pestilence that led him to it Omar Bogonza…Last year they started saying if it would come back up and well, I took heart and managed to collect 40 batteries. We did it at Parque España and it was also a success because it was full. People sat on the floor, above the railings on the stairs, it was an incredible party. This year they offered me to do it on the steps of the Garden of Spain. “They will act as a platform, we put the batteries on the ground and it will be like a kind of runway,” Norberto says.

Due to public demand, this edition will contain more songs and more tributes. «In addition to Oscar Moreau, we will remember other drummers who have left us in recent years such as Robin Bassualto from Vox Dei, Rodolfo Garcia almonds, Juan Esposito “Locomotive” all the time , Daniel Wirts From Los Socios del Desierto indeed Omar BodonzaOur dear friend from Rosario ».

The event will start at 3:00 PM on the steps of Parque España (Sarmiento and the River) and will be canceled in case of inclement weather.

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Why is Drummer’s Day celebrated?

death Oscar MoreauOne of the most important drummers in the history of Argentine rock music, he promoted among his followers the initiative to celebrate July 11 every year. Drummer’s Day in honor of him.

Born at the end of the 1940s in Rosario, Moro shared school with another musical legend, Lito Nepiaand merged with him the leading group in the genre, the cats. His extensive tour in that and other major bands such as human colourAnd Bird making machine also Siro neighborsJust a few examples made him one of the most influential musicians of his generation.

Health prevented him from working in the 1990s, and finally he died in 2006 of a bleeding ulcer at his home in Serrano y Cabrera, in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires.