ARTS: El Cafetal: Cafetal_FLedit2-66

El Cafetal barrio, Villanueva. Portrait of old accordion player and farmer. The tendency now is to view the 40s and 50s as a sort of golden age of vallenato. Colombians are proud to point out that vallenato symbolizes the unique and largely imagined harmonious relationship between the races that comprise their country; native Indians, Black Africans and the Spanish. Each group is said to have contributed an instrument to the ensemble.

El Cafetal barrio, Villanueva. Portrait of old accordion player and farmer. The tendency now is to view the 40s and 50s as a sort of golden age of vallenato. Colombians are proud to point out that vallenato symbolizes the unique and largely imagined harmonious relationship between the races that comprise their country; native Indians, Black Africans and the Spanish. Each group is said to have contributed an instrument to the ensemble.