The music of "currulao" is very popular in Colombia's South Pacific coast. Currulao music is featured in the Petronio Alvarez Music Festival.
Currulao is not only festive music to dance, but it can carry religious, political and social…
If you haven't heard of "Joropo Alternativo", you're not alone. I just learned of it through the article I'm sharing below.
Four groups have taken to the task of preserving this piece of musical culture. Not surprisingly, they sparked a…
Two groups from South America, Inti-Illimani and Los Llaneros, will come together in Minneapolis for a benefit concert, with the participation of students of a local school to support students from an impoverished school in Chile.
Music,…
Colombia got eliminated from the World Cup by host Brazil, but they left us with the SalsaChoke craze! It was brought to my attention by the dance they did after scoring a gol.
At first they called it a Salsa dance, but later they went…
Rafael Escalona and Carlos Vives have been two of the main forces that popularized "vallenato" in the last few years. Their careers and lives are interrelated in more ways than one.
Rafael Escalona helped popularize the Colombian music…