Los Llanos is a vast plain that stretches across the border of Venezuela and Colombia. And joropo is the music that sets the rhythm of daily life in a land of ranches and cattle herding. It's a ...

If you ask someone about los Llanos — the plains region shared across Venezuela and Colombia — they might talk to you about cowboys. Or at least their modern-day equivalent: ranchers who ride ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Think of Colombian music and the immediate styles that come to mind are cumbia, the lumbering, heavy rhythm ...

A dance programme has been introduced at the Venezuelan Institute, located at 24 Windsor Avenue in Kingston. Jamaicans now have the opportunity to learn Venezuelan folk dances, including the Joropo, ...

Cimarrón performed July 2nd at the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The crowd-drawing performance culminated the first half of the Festival's 10-day program ...