Puebla Musica
TripAdvisor images of dusty, uneven streets, women in brightly colored long skirts with shawls draped over long black hair. Children playing stickball in empty lots black hair tousled by the sun. calling out into the clear day. Men, dusty and dirty, pushing wheelbarrows, swinging pickaxes, mixing concrete in shallow wells in earth dry. Yet images can’t reveal background music from cassettes old or radios battered. Tuba's bellowing, trumpets blaring and drums cadence. And the singing from worksites tiendas casas busses. Belies soulful power of a beautiful people. Sleepy village sounds call imagination. clopping horses outside my casa. Soft voices passing open doors, “Hola, Buena Dias!” Recording from gas trucks offering tanks full. Junkmen calling for refuse sad. Tamales and fresh fish hawked from wheelbarrows. And the ice-cream cart singing for children. No need...