Zaragoza hosted the first edition of Vive Latino in the old continent. Spain vibrated 12 hours a day for 2 consecutive days, with live music in each of the 3 spectacular stages where more than 30 bands performed.
Vive Latino is an Ibero-American festival of Musical Culture which held its first edition in November 1998 in Mexico City.
In that first iteration, just as in Zaragoza, three great bands participated, such as Café Tacuba, Aterciopelados and Molotov, among others. Enrique Bunbury was also scheduled to take part, but unfortunately could not take part due to his premature retirement.
Top artists charmed the ears and hearts of a large audience. From Latin America came other great bands such as the Mexican Institute of Sound, Babasonicos, Mon Laferte, Ximena Sariñana and many more. From Spain there was artists of stature such as Coke Malla, Mikel Erentxun and Leiva who filled the square with his most faithful followers. The festival could not miss local artists such as Zaragozan Kase O.
Unfortunately, the organizers announced on Saturday morning that the artist Bebe could not attend her concert scheduled for the same day at 5:00 p.m. due to scheduling issues, a fact that created a lot of indignation among the attending public.
The magnificent Expo Zaragoza venue was transformed for 2 days into a corner of Mexico, embellished with giant skulls, catrinas, a wrestling arena where you could enjoy 4 spectacular fights with evidently professional wrestlers to the delight of those who enjoy this sport and for others more curious that certainly did not remain indifferent places with Mexican and international food.
An underwhelming aspect was the preparation of the food on the first day, where there were queues of no less than an hour to be able to have lunch and dinner. However, things improved on the second day.
For the first edition of an international music festival in a city that had never known an event of this magnitude, it remains as a succesful precedent in the memory of locals and participants alike.
Zaragoza lived, sang, danced and the public had the opportunity to feel the essence of the Vive Latino international festival.
