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 ...

This post is part two of a series on the Venezuelan plains and its culture. Follow this link to read the first post of the series. Of the musical genres that constitute the folklore of the plains of ...

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 ...

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 ...