ARTS: El Cafetal: Cafetal_FLedit2-6

Billares de Rueda. Men playing pool in one of the billares in town, while a sweets vendor waits outside. Loud vallenato music records are always played in the background.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}.

Billares de Rueda. Men playing pool in one of the billares in town, while a sweets vendor waits outside. Loud vallenato music records are always played in the background.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".