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When the peasant Pedro Pablo Pérez founded the music-dance ensemble Nengón de Imías on June 24, 1954, in the mountainous areas of that municipality, few would imagine the value that this group would have for Cuban culture, as a continuation of a tradition whose origins are date back to the colonial XIX century.

Revitalizing this sound was the work of the Pérez-Matos family, along with other friends and acquaintances, such as the Oñate, Mendoza, Moreira and Viquillón; each one imprinted his personal seal as a guarantee of continuity between singers and dancers.

The feast of the boar, endemic festive act, was born in 1930; Among its founders are Pedro Frómeta Pérez “Pedro Paquita”; Juan Frómeta Pérez “Juan Paco, Calixto Frómeta Jiménez, Reginaldo Frómeta Jiménez, Jesús Matos Sánchez and Rafael Matos Sánchez, among others. This artistic expression offered an image of the situation of those moments; the plot was represented in the following way:

El Berraco is the main agent, this character covers himself with guineo leaves all over his body and puts on a pig's jaw, painting his face and arms with charcoal soot; two or three other people represent the dogs.