Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez once said that One Hundred Years of Solitude was a 400-page Vallenato: a traditional music of Colombia's Caribbean coast. The songs are mini-epics, filled with ...

With BTS and KATSEYE headed to the country, Colombia shows just how huge the phenomenon has become.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minutes before midnight on Saturday at the Petronio Alvarez Festival in Cali, Colombia, the sound system stopped working with La ...

On the last day of the 20th Cartagena Music Festival, at a sold-out show, Giovanni Parra and his quintet finish their set with “Milonguín,” the title of his latest album dedicated to his younger ...

The Colombian bands performing Saturday hit a range of styles, from Afro-Caribbean percussion to Carnival music and the rural joropo of Cimarron. Those were some of the highlights on a day with plenty ...

Saxophonist Gabriel Sánchez Porras and pianist Elizabeth Loparits will present a program showcasing saxophone and piano music from Latin America, with special emphasis on music from the Caribbean ...

I’ve learned a lot from my friend and musical colleague Betto Arcos over the years, and yesterday I learned even more. This time the subject was the music of Colombia, from which he’d recently ...

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In 2011, researchers for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival traveled to the Orinoco Plains of Colombia. Their van broke down, leading to an unplanned performance of improvised trovas verses in the ...

Alt.Latino hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre play the new music that caught their ears this week, plus Felix delivers a deep dive into the... A psicodélico deep dive, plus new music from Spain ...