Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto is Colombia’s premier cumbia and gaita music ensemble. Gaita is the name of a genre but also of the instrument that plays the leading role; a cactus and beeswax flute, whose soft tone is played with a strong vibrato. Often several parts are heard accompanied by drums and shakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gaita’s status is iconic in Colombian music, and it is something of a symbol of the country’s history. Before colonial times, the instrument played an important role for the indigenous people, who called the flute Chuana and Chuarras. The Spaniards instead named it gaita, because the tone reminded them of the sound of the Galician bagpipe of the same name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first edition of Gaiteros de San Jacinto was started by Miguel Antonio “To\u00f1o” Fern\u00e1ndez, and since then members have passed on to the next generation to carry on the legendary band. Today, they are a tight sextet led by singer Rafael Castro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the album Un Fuego de Sangre Pura, released as part of the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings series, they depicted poverty and suffering in their home region of Montes de Mar\u00eda near Colombia’s Caribbean coast. The album won a Latin Grammy in 2007 and for the first time the gaita, along with the group’s own life stories, reached far beyond the South American continent. This year they are relevant with the album Orgullo Colombiano, where Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto show in twelve songs that they are equally rooted in both the colorful history of cumbia and gaita, and in the genre’s contemporary metamorphoses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Organized in collaboration with Clandestino Institut<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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