Colombian musician Carlos “Cuco” Rojas was a master of the arpa llanera (plains harp) and other folkloric string instruments who, with his band, Cimarrón, led a recent resurgence of Colombian joropo, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The typical joropo song begins with a fast homophonic block of melody and rhythm, stringed instruments led by folk-harp and bandola guitar, and percussion — BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM ...

The Colombian writer and journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. At his award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, a delegation of Colombian musicians performed ...

Aurelio Martinez from Honduras and Carlos Rojas from Colombia have been on a crusade for decades to preserve and modernise a Latin American musical heritages that go back centuries. Martinez has ...

With his band, the Grammy and Latin Grammy nominated, Cimarrón, Rojas was leading a resurgence of Colombian joropo music. By Judy Cantor-Navas Colombian musician Carlos “Cuco” Rojas was a master of ...

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 ...