Bambucos

The Bambucos orgin comes all the way back from the development of the Andean Reagion. As the Andean region began to develop the migration of Spaniards began increasing which lead to the construction of farms and the formation of the half-caste people. When the Spaniards arived, different religious parties were created, the spaniards started integrating themselves with the indigenous culture. This mix lead to various rhythm styles, one of them being Bambuco. Many dances and singings were created which were part of new musical styles. From these dances and rhythyms Bambuco was born

¨¨Bambuco is without a doubt the maximum expression of the colimbian music¨

There are various versiones of Bambuco since its origin is a mix of the Spaniards with the indeginous culture. Many say that the name ¨bambuco¨came from the word ¨bambuk¨, which is the name of a river along the west of Africa, where a similiar dance was performed. but in no way is it comparable to the colombia Bambuco dance which everyone is familiar with.

It is uncertain whether the bases of Bambuco are purely Spanish or ¨chibcha¨, but what is for sure is that our song writers and composers have given el Bambuco an original touch of Colombian Style making it purely original.

Poem written by Rafael Pombo about Bambuco:

Para conjurar el tedio de este vivir tan maluco,
Dios me depare un bambuco y al punto, santo remedio.
Buena orquesta de bandolas y una tanda de morenas
de quellas que son tan buenas que casi basta una sola.

Hay en él más poesía, riqueza, verdad, ternura,
que en mucha docta obertura y mística sinfonía.

Bambuco has been spread out to Central America and Mexico due to traveling that Pelon Santamarta performed carring this music to the countries he would visit.

After a few years he planted el Bambuco in Mexico creating the Mexican people to grow a special interest for this particular music, and that is the way that various versions of mexican bambuco originated, they were created in mexico but they still used our Colombian rhythym.

Bambuco is composed of bandola, tiple, and the guitar. Its lyrics are usually interpreted by duets which tipically have great quality voices in which they completly handle the musical instrument, some of these duets were performed by:E: Pelón y Marín, Wills y Escobar, Briceño y Añez, Ospina y Martínez, Fortich y Valencia, Ríos y Macías, Obdulio y Julián, Espinosa y Bedoya, el Dueto de Antaño, Los Hermanos Moncada, los Hermanos Hernández, Los Hermanos Martínez, Silva y Villalba, Pineda y Pérez, Los Tolimenses, Ibarra y Medina, Luciano y Concholón, Gómez y Villegas, Los Hermanos Calero, Zabala y Barrera, y… and many many more.

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