''Festivál'' is the eighth studio album by

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, released in January 1977. It peaked number twenty seven in the ''Billboard'' 200 chart and number twenty nine in the R&B Albums chart.

Track listing

Side one

# "Carnaval" (

Tom Coster Tom Coster (born August 21, 1941) is an American keyboardist, composer, and longtime backing musician for Carlos Santana. Early years Detroit-born and San Francisco-raised, Coster played piano and accordion as a youth, continuing his studies ...

Carlos Santana Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán (; born July 20, 1947) is an American guitarist who rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band Santana, which pioneered a fusion of Rock and roll and Latin American jazz. Its sound featured ...

) – 2:15 # "Let the Children Play" (

Leon Patillo Leon Norman Patillo (born January 1, 1947) is an American Contemporary Christian music, contemporary Christian singer, keyboardist, and evangelist. Career Patillo's first musical endeavor was with the group Creation, later called Leon's Creatio ...

, Santana) – 3:28 # "Jugando" (

José Areas José Octavio "Chepito" Areas Dávila (born 25 July 1946) is a Nicaraguan percussionist best known for having played timbales and Conga drums in the Latin rock group Santana in 1969–1977 and 1987–1989. In 1998, he was inducted into the Roc ...

, Santana) – 2:12 # "Give Me Love" (Pablo Téllez) – 4:29 # "Verão Vermelho" (Nonato Buzar) – 5:00 # "Let the Music Set You Free" (Coster, Patillo,

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, Santana) – 3:39

Side two

# "Revelations" (Coster, Santana) – 4:37 # "Reach Up" (Coster,

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, Patillo, Santana) – 5:23 # "The River" (Patillo, Santana) – 4:53 # "Try a Little Harder" (Patillo) – 5:04 # "María Caracóles" (Pello el Afrokán - credited "P. African") – 4:32

Personnel

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– vocals, background vocals * Maxine Willard Waters – vocals, background vocals * Francisco Zavala – vocals, background vocals *

–

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

, bass, percussion, vocals, background vocals *

– keyboards, percussion,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

, vocals, background vocals *

–

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, percussion,

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, vocals * Pablo Téllez – bass, percussion, vocals, background vocals *

– bass *

Gaylord Birch Gaylord G. Birch (March 10, 1946 – April 14, 1996) was a drummer for the bands Santana, Graham Central Station, Cold Blood, Pointer Sisters & Herbie Hancock. History Birch was the drummer for the Pointer Sisters during 1974 and perfor ...

–

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

, percussion, tympani * José "Chepitó" Areas – conga,

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timbales Timbales () or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, especially for their size.Orovio, Helio 1981. ''Diccionario de la música cubana: biográfico ...

* Raul Rekow – conga, percussion, background vocals * Joel Badie – percussion, vocals,

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used ...

* Julia Waters – background vocals Production: *

Fred Catero Fred Catero (February 4, 1933 – October 6, 2022) was an American record producer and engineer. Catero was originally from New York City, where he worked for CBS Records/Columbia, recording artists such as Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears. Invit ...

– engineer *

– engineer, producer

Charts

Certifications

References

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