This video speaks for itself.
sábado, 30 de abril de 2011
Ciegos Nosotros (The blind ones are us) is one of the favourites in the Best Song Contest in this year's Vallenato Festival. Both music and lyrics are by Adrián Villamizar, and the song was sang by two blind children.The medical doctor Villamizar is a defender of the classic vallenato and the guitar-based vallenato in particular.
In Ciegos Nosotros he attempts to show the audacity of the blind vallenato poet Leandro Díaz (who is receiving a well deserved tribute at this year's festival) as he told the world about his suffering in his now classic songs. And he attempts to show that the ones of us who have our vusual sences intact are really the blind ones, not seing all that the world really has to offer a seeing person.
Among the five finalists in the infants' accordion contest were the girls Merida Galvis and María Fernanda García. Here we present their presentations Morenita and El Hatonuevero, respectively. El Hatonuevero is a song Leandro Díaz wrote on the occacion of the arrival of the telephone to his natal village Hatonuevo; "now my village can communicate with every other village in the world"!
Also the song contains the memorable lines from the poet - once a poor, blind child of Hatonuevo -that ended up as beloved artist speaking out against the social exclusion he experienced: "joyful will be my native land/when I tell them/that they have their children up front/to defend their rights"
Yesterday the children's accordion crown was won by José Camilo Mugno Pinzon (12) from El Difícil, Magdalena. In the gigantic vallenato stadium, Consuelo Araújo Noguera, he gave a blasting performance that proved both his extreme accordion skills as well as his love for the music.As for his merengue (one of the four vallenato rythms the contenders have to perform) he had chosen to recover Leandro Díaz' La Descuidá from oblivion. Check out this amazing performance.
viernes, 29 de abril de 2011
Almes Granados played the puya Mi Arte Musical, his own composition, in today's contest. The puya is a rythm inherited from the american aborigines. In the puyas, all the vallenato instruments - the accordion, the caja and the guacharaca - plays a solo part each. See this amazing presentation!Photo from his concert in Oslo 2009.
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.
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