Cartagena Music Festival, January 2011

Check out the series of blogs from the Cartagena International Music Festival in January 2011 posted on the website of Americas Quarterly.

http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/2086

The official website of the music festival is here: http://www.cartagenamusicfestival.com/

Schedule for Bogota Music Celebrations 2010

From Colombia Reports:

Bogota authorities determined the dates for the festivals to be held in Bolivar park the coming season. Apart from 2010's edition of Rock Al Parque, there will be festivals focused on salsa, jazz, hip hop and world music.

The country's biggest festival, Rock Al Parque, will be held from June 23 and June 29. The 2010 edition is the festival's 15th anniversary and more than 60 bands are expected to perform.

From August 22 until August 30, the park is reserved for next year's edition of Salsa Al Parque. This year's edition of this salsa festival wll be focusing of Colombian composer and singer Joe Arroyo this year.

Jazz Al Parque, planned between September 7 and September 13, will offer jazz concerts and workshops.

Hip Hop Al Parque, despite unrest the past year, will go on and is scheduled for October 13 until October 18. The concert is the biggest hip hop event in Colombia and will not just show the country's best rappers, but also have dance demonstrations and the Second Encounter of Hip Hop Formation Houses.

The only festival that hasn't had its date set is Colombia Al Parque, a festival focused on Colombian culture, but this year with great emphasis on the traditional cultures of other parts of the world.

Jazz Festival in Bogota September 2009

As reported in Vive.in (with pictures of Colombian musicians taken in Barranquilla for Carnaval)

Inaugurated in 1988, the Jazz Festival of the Teatro Libre in Bogota has been positioned as one of the earliest and most prestigious in Latin America. Since then, with the exception of 1993, has taken place annually.

As has become customary, during the month of September, the Festival will offer seven to eight concerts of solo artists and groups from diverse areas: Latin America, United States, Europe, Africa and, of course, Colombia.

Similarly, during the Festival are conducted workshops conducted by guest artists. Besides promoting and developing jazz in Colombia, has given rise to various festivals in other cities. Throughout its history, the Festival has invited more than 37,000 spectators

This year's festival will feature artists from the likes of Brad Mehldau U.S., who with twenty albums, eight of them leading by more than ten weeks, the list of Billboard magazine's jazz, has become one of the most surprising and interesting jazz pianists today.

It will also be after twelve years, the saxophonist Kenny Garrett, flagship of the acoustic jazz tradition.

One attraction is in Havana Report, which comes from Cuba, yet the sound of Afro-Cuban jazz, which the pianist Ernan Lopez-Nussa part.

And among many other artists from Italy Luigi Bozzola, will come with all that load of acid jazz, with its strong core of the acoustic explorers of all persuasions, integrating the new generation of musicians that guide modern jazz in that country.

Since 3 September, the Free Theater opens its doors to present an entire show of the best jazz and continue its tradition within the scene of festivals of this type.



BRAD MEHIDAU (USA)
Auditorio Leon de Greiff
Thursday September 3, 2009



REPORT HAVANA (Cuba)
ZAPEROCO (Colombia)
Free Theater Chapinero
Friday September 4, 2009



KENNY GARRETT (USA)
Auditorio Leon de Greiff
Sàbado September 5, 2009
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DUO Bozzolo (Italy)
MARIAZU (Colombia)
Free Theater Chapinero
Thursday September 10, 2009



JORGE EMILIO FADUL & THE CARIBBEAN PARADISE ORCHESTRA
Free Theater Chapinero
Friday September 11, 2009

To view all programming visit http://www.festivalinternacionaldejazz.com/
Original article in Spanish at:
http://bogota.vive.in/musica/bogota/conciertos/agosto2009/EVENTO-WEB-FICHA_EVENTO_VIVEIN-5930167.html

Barranquilla Jazz Festival, 2009

Barranquilla will celebrate the biggest International Jazz Festival in Colombia with world-class artists ranging from Latin Jazz, Salsa, Flamenco, Colombian Jazz and Jazz-Fusion. Barranquijazz takes place September 9 to 13, 2009.

There will be several Jazz Festival in Colombia next week but Barranquijazz is the most important of all, followed by the Medellin Jazz Festival.

What began as a project of some music lovers in 1997 turned quickly into one of the annual highlights of Barranquilla. The world's biggest jazz and Latin jazz artists have attended Barranquijazz.

This year the Caribbean city will host Mark Walker (United States), Papo Vazquez, Dave Valentin, Omara Portuondo and his orchestra (Cuba), Jaume Vilaseca quartet (Spain) and Rik Mol (Netherlands) among others.

Music lovers can enjoy the jazz vibes at the Teatro Amira de la Rosa, Plazoleta Teatro Amira de la Rosa, Plaza de la Paz, University del Norte, stadium Romelio Martinez and the Salon Jumbo del Country Club.

For more information and the whole program, check out http://www.barranquijazz.com/