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Every Sunday local musicians hold an open-air concert at the gate to the ruins of the monastery of San Francisco, built between 1509 and 1560 in Santo Domingo. The music is lively and loud with a lot of brass – my kind of music!<\/p>\n
The driver dropped me off at 3:30 with a promise to be back at 6:00, even though the evening would still be young.<\/p>\n
The music was to start around 4:00 but didn’t quite make it, although people had started to gather by then. While waiting I tried to walk around and through the ruins and got a few pictures, not really knowing what I was shooting. A little (10-12 year old) boy offered to get me inside, so I managed to see more than most, but there was still no information on anything.<\/p>\n
Here’s a link<\/a> explaining about the ruins.<\/p>\n By 6:00 the primary musicians had just shown up, and shortly behind them Frankie, my driver, urgently telling me he had to go. When I explained they hadn’t started yet, that his starting time was wrong by two hours, he just kind of looked at me with a “So what?” expression. \u00a0Oh, well. I got to listen to a couple of hours of canned Caribbean music while they set up, and had a taste of the local populace. \u00a0If only<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every Sunday local musicians hold an open-air concert at the gate to the ruins of the monastery of San Francisco, built between 1509 and 1560 in Santo Domingo. The music is lively and loud with a lot of brass – my kind of music! The driver dropped me off at 3:30 with a promise to… <\/p>\n