Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto & Madalitso Band

Join us for a fun international dance party with acoustic cumbia music  from Los Gaiteros de San Jancinto from Colombia and Madalitso Band’s  rippling guitar driven music from Malawi.  The bands feature unique  instruments like that gaita (flute) and babatone (8-foot long 1-string  bass!).

Deep in the Montes de María, on the shores of Colombia's Caribbean  coast, with the advent of the Spanish conquest and the arrival of the  enslaved African population, the sound of a new race was born. The  native Kogi tribe descended from the snow-capped peaks with their flutes  imitating the song of the birds, slaves introduced the overpowering  cadence of their drums, and the Spaniards imposed their melancholic song  to give birth to gaita music cradled in the tiny town of San Jacinto.  Time slowly gave shape to the gaiteros as they sang to life, love, and  suffering, as women's hips could not help following the…