by the El Reportero’s news services
More than 30,000 people from all over the country and abroad came together to celebrate the third edition of the biggest Latin Music Festival in the country. Ozuna closed the festival with a spectacular performance that surpassed all fan expectations; and co-headliner of the festival, American rapper Logic, thrilled a diverse audience that transcended language barriers with an amazing set that concluded the first day of the two-day Los Dells Festival in Mauston, Wisconsin at the Woodside Festival Grounds.
Forty artists across all genres of the musical spectrum performed at Los Dells Festival on five stages in perfect weather throughout both days. Highlights included Carlos Vives, El Fantasma, Café Tacvba, Farruko, Natalia Lafourcade, Mon Laferte, CNCO, Sebastian Yatra and many other great artists, including up and coming acts such as Ambar Lucid, PJ Sin Suela, Y La Bamba and Inner Wave to name a few who were also part of the diverse lineup.
The magnitude of Los Dells Festival grew not only in audience, but also in the number of acts performing, number of stages, art, vendors, commodities, sponsors, meet & greets and many other aspects that makes this festival one of a kind– turning it into the biggest Latin Festival in the U.S. with full camping capacities and hotel.
Symposium about the Joropo begins in Venezuela
A symposium about the different genres of the joropo, native Venezuelan rhythm, begins this Saturday at the headquarters of the Center for Cultural Diversity in this capital.
During the day, specialists such as Milagros Figueroa, Carlos Garcia, Jesus ‘Chuito’ Rangel, Monico Marquez and Jose ‘Cheo’ Hurtado, will talk about the eastern Joropo and Guayana.
Benito Irady and Alexander Lugo will introduce the debate, which will include numerous audiovisual testimonies of well-known musicians from the states of Nueva Esparta and Sucre.
Meanwhile, other presentations will address the central joropo, the jorconeao, the Andean, the colonist, the western, the llanero and many more variants that exist in various regions of the country.
Starting this morning, a panel made up of virtuous interpreters and scholars of the Eastern genre will contribute ideas to extend this variant of the Venezuelan Joropo to the Guayana region.
The joropo, a traditional form of music and dance that fully identifies the Venezuelan people, is now a symbol of national identity and its origins date back to the mid-1700s, when Venezuelan peasants preferred to use the term ‘joropo’ rather than ‘fandango’ to refer to parties and social and family gatherings.
