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Sunday, July 10th
5 PM – 8 PM ET, Three hours of musical concerts
COLOMBIA FESTIVAL: AYOMBÉ (1st). Ayombé performs the best of the vallenato music,
with rhythms such as Puya, Paseo, and Merengue, at the Smithsonian Folklife
Festival. Vallenato is accordion music from a valley on the Caribbean
coast. This edition also offers a backstage conversation with three of the bandmembers:
accordion player Luís Carlos Farfán, drummer Efraín Camilo Díaz, and singer
Reynaldo "Papi" Díaz. Also, the festival curator, Olivia Cadaval
talks about the work behind the celebration of "Colombia: The Nature of Culture”,
and plans for next year’s festival.Download Program Here.
COLOMBIA FESTIVAL: EL PUEBLO CANTA (2nd). From the music hall "Al
son que me toquen” at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, El Pueblo Canta offers
a concert of Carranguera Music, with Bambucos, Merengue Carraguero, and Torbellinos.
The group’s songs evoke anecdotes of rural Andean life. This edition also
includes a conversation with director and composer, Julio Álvaro Suesca Acuña,
and his son, Edixon Julián Suesca, child drummer and instrument maker.Download Program Here.
COLOMBIA FESTIVAL: MARIMBA AND MORE (3rd). This
musical moment at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival brings together musicians
from Chirimía la Contundencia and marimba player Don Baudilio Guamas Rentería.
This musician and marimba maker comes from the Pacific Tropical Rainforest. Don
Baudilio also offers a solo played on the marimba he built during the festival.Download Program Here.
Saturday, July 9th
5 PM – 8 PM ET, Three hours of musical concerts
COLOMBIA FESTIVAL: JOROPO CRIOLLO (1st). From the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Radio Bilingüe presents a concert by Grupo Cabrestero and Aires del Campo, a meeting of string instruments. These groups interpret joropo music, part of the culture of the plains, revolving around cattle ranching. This edition also includes interviews with members of both groups.Guests: Víctor Cenón Espinel, main singer and bandola player, Grupo Cabrestero, Maní, Colombia; Fernán de Jesús Rojo Meneses, guitar player, Aires del Campo, Girardota, Colombia.
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COLOMBIA FESTIVAL: DON ABUNDIO Y SUS TRAVIESOS (2nd). Don Abundio y sus Traviesos perform the rythms of tambora guacherna, chandé and berroche from the Mompóx región on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The group?s repertoire includes aires and traditional dances for Carnaval. This edition also includes an interview with the director of the group, Don Abundio himself, whose real name is Samuel Marmol Villa, and who is also a singer, dancer and instrument maker. He tells about the groups? origins, musical genres and instruments.
COLOMBIA FESTIVAL: GRUPO CABRESTERO (3rd).In this concert taped live at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Grupo Cabrestero performs joropo music, with the sounds of the Southeastern Plains of Colombia, with instruments such as maracas, cuatro, and bandola. Also, musician Félix Chaparro Rivas tells of his dedication to music and how he teaches music in his native Aguazul. He al vivo en el Festival del Folklore del Smithsonian, el Grupo Cabrestero interpreta la música de joropo, con sonidos de la llanura suroriente, interpretados con instrumentos tales como maracas, cuatro y bandola.
Además, el músico Félix Chaparro Rivas nos cuenta sobre su dedicación a la música y la enseñanza de ésta en la Casa de la Cultura en su natal Aguazul, y nos habla sobre el particular instrumento llamado furruco, el cual hace sonar.
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Friday, July 8th
3 PM – 5 PM Eastern Time, talk shows and music concert
FESTIVAL OF COLOMBIAN ROOTS: DAY TWO (1st ). From the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Línea Abierta brings you "Colombia: The Nature of Culture”. This edition includes a conversation with a singer from the Cantaoras de Alabaos del Pacífico, who tells about the origins of this style of singing, typical in the Pacific Tropical Rainforest. The songs are used for funeral rituals, and interpreted by women to keep the memory of Black people. And two men dedicated to transportation tell about two forms of transportation considered typical in the coffee-growing region: jeep and mule driving. What do they carry from place to place, and how have they opened development of communication and economy? Guests: Leonor Murillo, Singer, Cantaoras de Alabaos del Pacífico, San Andrés, Colombia; Jhon Jairo Amortegui Piña, Jeep driver, Calarcá, Colombia; and Leonel de Jesús Loaiza Muñoz, Mule driver, Concordia, Antioquia, Colombia. |
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| FESTIVAL OF COLOMBIAN ROOTS: DAY TWO (2nd). CHIRIMÍA AND BANDOLA. This edition presents two concerts taped live in the music hall ‘Al son que me toquen’ at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Chirimía la Contundencia is an ensemble that interprets traditional music from the northern Pacific coast that is played with wind and brass instruments, and is heard at carnivals and patron saint festivals. Aires del Campo plays string music from the coffee-growing region. The members of the group are all cousins, playing traditional instruments such as the bandola and the tiple. |
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Thursday, July 7th
3 PM – 5 PM Eastern Time, talk shows on Línea AbiertaPROGRAM # 6431 12:00 PM PST.
| FESTIVAL OF COLOMBIAN ROOTS: DAY ONE. Radio Bilingüe offers special coverage of the celebration of "Colombia: The Nature of Culture" taking place on the National Mall as part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. In this first hour, coffee farmers share the process of cultivating Colombian coffee and the tradition of drinking a "tinto" a hatmaker talks about the tradition of women weavers of iraca palm, and a "silletero" who makes chairs and carries flowers on his back in the city of Medellín tells of this longstanding art. Guests: Daniel Sheehy, Director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Washington, D.C.; Alexander de Jesús Nieto Marín, Silletero and flower grower, Medellín, Colombia; José Alexander Salazar, Coffee farmer, Calarcá, Colombia; Jorge Ivan Valencia, Coffee farmer, Dos Quebradas, Pereira, Colombia. Download first Hour in mp3. |
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| COLOMBIA FESTIVAL: ART AND COOKING. (2nd Hour) From Washington, D.C., Radio Bilingüe presents a second hour of conversations with artisans at the celebration of "Colombia: The Nature of Culture” in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. This edition includes conversations with an artist who transforms junk into art, a hat maker, a basket weaver, and a cook from the Mompóx región who is an expert at traditional dishes such as mote de queso, a cheese and vegetable soup, and a fish called viuda de pescado, with coconut rice. Guests: María Dilia Dávila, Hat maker, Aguadas, Caldas, Colombia; Hernando Ruiz Daza, director, Reciclarte, Bogotá, Colombia, http://www.facebook.com/#!/reciclarte.colombia; Areli Hernández Vega, basket weaver and member of artisan collective, Ráquira, Colombia; Mery Margoth Gándara de Barrera, Cook and owner of the restaurant "El comedor costeño”, Mompóx, Colombia. |
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