La Gaita Zuliana: Altanera and Protestone Part I

Bagpipes have over the years been an instrument of protest in the face of unjust situations, bad practice of the governments of duty, because it is a strong gender and which is well received by the masses. In the 1960s a humble educator, broadcaster, musician and poet raised his voice to express the precarious situation in our country at the time, I refer to Ricardo José Aguirre González, the famous monumental.

Maracaibo Marginalized from the Cardinals del Success ensemble, is a theme interpreted by the monumental one that revealed the government's little interest in helping to solve the problems in the city of Maracaibo.

Another issue that was added to that cry for protest no longer for the city but for the country itself was the Imploration of the Cardinals of Success, this subject played together with German Ávila also expressed the difficult situation he lived in those days.

At that time, a song that would immortalize him emerged from the creation of this famous singer and songwriter: La Grey Zuliana, played together with the ensemble Piper El Saladillo, this theme steeped in a lot of Christian faith and points to government indolence, became at that time and until today the anthem of the pipers

The Grey Zuliana