The 17 March 2001 was carried out on -until now- most massive reggae event in Chile, the Natural Mystic Festival, which brought together more than 70 a thousand people at National Stadium who enjoyed a great show that featured The Wailers, Gondwana and The Fabulous Cadillacs.
Although versions were made 2 and 3 it's a festival, without the success of the first, now, when they are fulfilled 25 years of that shocking concert that still resonates with the fans who experienced it, on Sunday 8 of November will be carried out Natural Mystic Festival – 25 Years, at Caupolicán theater, whose tickets are already on sale.
For this edition the poster includes reggae leaders in Spanish, like the argentine band Nonpalidece, the peruvian group Lagun Pai and the Chilean singer Maxi Vargas, who had a stage as vocalist of Gondwana.
Likewise, Several representatives of national reggae will be present, such as Boomer, Safari Reggae, Kutral Dub, Arbol, Jah Sito, as well as DJ Patois, Pensive and Fat Pablo, to give more energy to the room.
Tickets are on sale through the system Puntoticket with prices starting from $23.000 at the stand, $28.750 the court and $40.250 the boxes.
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Documentary film “Natural Mystic Festival”
Exactly coinciding with the 25 years of this remembered and iconic reggae recital, During the month of May the documentary was released “Natural Mystic Festival, the Documentary”, who traveled back in time to relive that night in the country's main sports coliseum.
The relevance of that event, who remembered the 20 anniversary of Bob Marley's departure, is that it marked the golden era of reggae in Chile, with Gondwana as the spearhead, in which this style went from being a niche to becoming firmly established in the mass media, radio, TV and newspapers.
This audiovisual work performs a memory exercise, remembering the context of the time, a very different Chile, in which the minimum wage was $105.500, the kilo of bread cost $500 and the fare on the yellow buses in Santiago was worth $300 and also connecting with that dark past of the National Stadium, converted by the dictatorship into a detention and torture center.
“Natural Mystic set that precedent as the Woodstock of reggae.”, where reggae can come from, The great reggae stars can come to the country without a doubt. Before the 2001 The only bands that came were the most pop bands linked to reggae because they had songs that were hits that hit., They were world hits. "They didn't come with the cultural weight of being a reggae band.", commented one of the filmmakers of the documentary, Ignacio Rojas, a Reggae Chalice Magazine.
Documentary revives the most important reggae event in Chile
