ARTS: El Cafetal: Cafetal_FLedit2-11

Dariana (left) dances in front of her sister Karen(center) and the neighbour Marisol (Right) in her house in El Cafetal neighborhood. While rough hewn and leathery in sound, vallenato lyrics are usually plain written and sugarcane sweet. Everyday events, passion, eternal love, village folklore, travelogues and miracles blur in the telling; voices crack, crackle with emotion in a music that so influenced Gabriel Garcia Marquez that he once described One Hundred Years of Solitude as a 350 page vallenato and inspired charcters such as {quote}.Remedios la Bella{quote}.

Dariana (left) dances in front of her sister Karen(center) and the neighbour Marisol (Right) in her house in El Cafetal neighborhood. While rough hewn and leathery in sound, vallenato lyrics are usually plain written and sugarcane sweet. Everyday events, passion, eternal love, village folklore, travelogues and miracles blur in the telling; voices crack, crackle with emotion in a music that so influenced Gabriel Garcia Marquez that he once described One Hundred Years of Solitude as a 350 page vallenato and inspired charcters such as ".Remedios la Bella".