Colombian cultural expressions are connected to their distinctive environments. The program will demonstrate the profound resilience and creativity of people who live in the different ecosystems as they interact dynamically with nature, like this junco baskets made of junco roots.
A
ires del Campo is a traditional string music ensemble from the Coffee Region. They excel at bandola and tiple, instruments traditional to the area. The members of the group are cousins and learned to play from their fathers, uncles, and grandfather. The group plays Andean music along with party tunes of the Paisa culture. On families of musicians cultural traditions rest.
In a
globalized world where music and the arts are not immune to the phenomenon of
marketing, spread mainly by the commercial media, which tend to have a way more
or less homogeneous culture for the masses, sacrificing the enormous diversity and
richness of different cultures, you believe that the rescue of the arts and
cultural expressions of a specific region of our American Continent -and the
world- that carry out such as the Smithsonian Institution and Radio Bilingüe, as
in this case on the arts and Colombian crafts do they still have place in the
world, in these modern times?
