Almes Granados plays La Niña Guillo (son)

Almes Granados Durán is a great accordion player from the Granados acciodion dynasti in Marangola, Cesar. His cousin is the famous King of Kings accordionist, Hugo Carlos Granados.

Almes were among the remaning 25 finalists in today's contest. Each finalist interpreted one song in each of the four rythms ("aires") in vallenato: son, paseo, merengue (not the Dominican style!) and puya. As for his son, Almes chose to play La Niña Guillo by the legendary Alejo Durán, one of the greatest composers and interpreters of son ever.

Almes GRanados played a series of concerts with Ivo Díaz in Scandinavia in 2009, the photo is from the concert in Bergen, Norway.