Cimarron brings the authentic sounds of Colombia’s tropical plains on new album
published : 5 Jul 2022 at 04:00
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 for the event. Harp player Carlos “Cuco” Rojas, the founder of the Cimarron band, and lead singer Ana Veydo joined the musicians, adding their festive joropo dance music from plains of the Orinoco River (in Colombia and Venezuela) to the music on the Nobel stage.
Rojas and Veydo founded Cimarron in 2000 with the aim of broadening the “folkloric” joropo…
