Cimarrón performs "Joropo Quitapesares" at 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Cimarrón performed July 2nd at the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, DC--their third Festival appearance to date. The crowd-drawing performance culminated the first half of the Festival's 10-day program "Colombia: The Nature of Culture." "Joropo Quitapesares" is the first track from the new Smithsonian Folkways release, '¡Cimarrón! Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia,' available here: http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3347.

Cimarrón is a Grammy-nominated, all-star ensemble of instrumentalists, singers, and dancers from Colombia. Their fast-paced, explosive "música llanera" (plains music) is among the most exciting regional music coming from Latin America today. Propelled by maracas, percussive strings, and voice, the group certainly lives up to the meaning of their name "Cimarrón"- the wild bull.

Listen to "Cimarroneando" from '¡Cimarrón! Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia' here:
http://soundcloud.com/smithsonian-folkways/13-cimarroneando-cimarr-n-ing

To learn more about their Grammy-nominated album from Smithsonian Folkways, 'Sí, soy llanero: Joropo Music from the Orinoco Plains of Colombia' (part of the Tradiciones/Traditions series of Latin American recordings), visit http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3009

For more on the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and other artists who performed, visit: http://www.Festival.si.edu
For more artists featured on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, visit: http://folkways.si.edu/


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• Cimarron
• joropo
• llanero
• llanera
• Colombia
• Smithsonian Folklife Festival
• festival
• Folkways
• bandola
• cajon
• upright electric bass
• cuatro
• maracas
• harp

[rccl36812]

Colombians playing venezuelan music...NICE ! ! !

[SmithsonianFolkways]

@rccl36812 Joropo actually originates from the Orinoco Plains which extend into both Venezuela and Colombia. While the contemporary sound of música llanera can be attributed to the success of Venezuela's commercial music industry in the mid-20th century, its effects were seen on both Venezuelan and Colombian sides of the Orinoco River! For more about joropo, we have extensive free and downloadable liner notes on Smithsonian Folkways' ¡Cimarrón! page.

[diegolr87]

Qué poder

[feleru]

@rccl36812 By the way the most recognize musicians in the region and other contries autside are colombian grups of Joropo... even de joropofestival made by both countrys every year has been won by colombians... including the best vocals.

Even Cimarron its more recognize internationaly than any venezuelan musician.

[feleru]

@rccl36812 Thats not true... Joropo is folk from the region of llanos... You are the one who needs to investigate more about the history of it, because Joropo is play in colombia even after 1956... its adopted from 1800 after independence....

[rccl36812]

@SmithsonianFolkways As I said before....Colombians playing venezuelan music....Your "version" of it's origin, is exactly that..."your" version. The historical and true version, is that "plains music" originated in the Apure, Barinas region of Venezuela, and was later "Adopted" in colombia by venezuelan exiles, that took their customs, across the border around 1956 +- fleeing the dictaroship. Let me know if you want to "read" this historical knowledge, from a "colombian" historian in music.