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Romantic Vallenato Music: Colombia’s Worst Creation?
Subjected in my rural office, to two nearby riverside kiosks intent upon drowning out one another and inflicting the rest of us to raucous, skull splitting and above all tedious strains of romantic vallenato music at all hours of the … Continue reading
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Should’ve Been there, Reflections on the 40th Vallenato Festival
In the background the famed Vallenato accordionist, Alfredo Gutierrez was hammering out a tune with his foot whilst held aloft on the shoulders of five of his band members. In front of me, former Colombian President Ernesto Samper was handing … Continue reading
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Tagged accordion, adventures in colombia, adventures in south america, colombia, colombia.travel, colombian music, ernesto samper, festival vallenato, festivals in colombia, folk music, official bloggers, South America, valledupar, vallenato, vallenato festival
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