Pleneros Surenos.
By 1929 the plena was becoming very popular in New York with many groups playing it such as Los Pleneros Sureños, "Plena Players from the South", from the city of Ponce in southern Puerto Rico where the plena supposed to have originated.
The plena surged during the second decade of the 20th century as it was a novelty and thus popular with everybody.
Placido Acevedo who was a member of the group, composed and played (muted) trumpet and 'pandero' , a small hand-drum similar to the spanish pandereta. Mateo Malavé played also the pandero. The singer with the rough voice is probably Rafael Capacete "Tripopi". There where also several guitarists including Rafael Gonzalez Levy and Pellin Serrano possibly on 'cuatro' . Vincent Velasquez possibly played the accordion.
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