This year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival highlights Colombia’s many cultures. While the institution’s researchers’ van got stuck somewhere in the eastern plains, they recorded some of the local joropo singers. Links…
The Cartagena duo “Dragon y Caballero” have released a new song for the 2011 Under-20 World Cup soccer tournament in Colombia. The musical group released “Colombia Cries Goal” which it…
This year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival highlights Colombia’s many cultures. One Colombian band playing at the festival is La Contundencia. The festival made a video about that afrocolombian brassband that performs…
The Bogota Philharmonic Symphony launched a new season Friday with a celebration of the centenary anniversary of Gustav Mahler and a performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. This year’s season…
Colombian Pacific region circus-dance group Delirio’s newest production “Bombo, una oda al Pacifico” (Bombo, an ode to the Pacific) presents a unique, colorful fusion of traditional and current southern coastal…
A group of top-notch American jazz musicians are in Colombia to give jazz masterclasses to children from poor neighborhoods in the cities of Medellin and Manizales. The Americans, all students…
Colombian pop singer Santiago Cruz releases the music video for his new romantic single “6 a.m.,” a song about waking up next to the woman he loves. The video was…
Colombian vallenato singer Jorge Celedon has released a video of his new single “Lo Que Tu Necesitas” from his album of the same name. The video and the single chronicle…
Ibague, known as the Colombian “city of music” kicked off the first day of the 11-day Colombian Folklife Festival Wednesday, as bright colors were seen in the costumes of the…