Colombians prepare to celebrate important regional folkloric music and dance in the 44th International Joropo Tournament. Joropo is a musical style with African and European roots that resembles the ...

From the Southeastern Plains of Colombia, Cabrestero performs the joropo music that is an important part of the region's cattle-ranching culture. Here, the group's members invite Festival visitors to ...

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 ...

During a global pandemic in Orocué, Colombia, dance and adversity brought a group together. This is the story of Marcela Hernández, a director, teacher and dancer at Alma Llanera, a dance academy in ...

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 ...

Miss Arauca was crowned “International Joropo Queen” Tuesday at an event in eastern Colombia celebrating the local Llanera culture, reported newspaper El Pais. Yulitsa Tatiana Siniva was praised for ...