On April 3, the 48th edition of the Mono Núñez Festival will be launched at the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo with a concert in which five of the winners and finalists of the 2021 edition will be presented.Bambucos, corridors, horopos, polkas and whirlwinds will be protagonists at the Teatro Mayor on a day that will be for the celebration of music from all over Latin America, with traditional songs and compositions of talented artists from different parts of Colombia.A total of five artists and groups representing the winners and finalists of the previous version of the Festival will meet from 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 3.The concert begins with the presentation of Wuilmer López, nominated for the Mono Núñez Award in the instrumental category, in which he will perform arrangements of corridors and bambucos in which he can show his virtuosity on the llanera harp.López has participated in the Cairde International Harp Festival in Ireland, the International Harp Festival of Ecuador, the Rio Harp Festival in Brazil and the Arpa Fest Cancun, among others.Next, Tinna Méndez, who is nominated for the Mono Núñez Grand Prix in the vocal category, will take the stage for traditional songs such as Guillermo Calderón’s Surcos de olvido and Me Enredé, María by Olga Piñeros. Méndez has explored various repertoires within the languages of jazzy, musical, pop and R & B.The singer has also focused her work on the study and dissemination of traditional music from the Colombian Andean region and other parts of Latin America, including Afro-Peruvian, Chilean and Argentine expressions.Next, Nicolás Sotelo, guitarist and composer nominated for the Mono Núñez Award in the instrumental category and winner of the award for best instrumental soloist, will be presented. During his presentation he will perform songs by masters of traditional Colombian rhythms such as Embrujo de Gentil Montaña.It is followed by Grand Prix winners Margarita Dueto Vocal, Leidy Belén Orozco, Dayane Eliana Fagua and Francisco Cristancho Salamanca, who will take the stage with the tiple, voice and guitar.And to close the concert, the Juventud Trio will be presented, composed of Javier Fernando Mojica, Jhon Anderson Valderrama and José Manuel Rincón Correa, winners of the instrumental category that will share melodies performed in the tiple requinto, tiple and guitar.The Trio began their musical activity at Expo Arte 2012 and since then they have participated in departmental and national competitions and in less than six months they were winners in the professional category in more than sixty carranguera music competitions.They were also three consecutive winners of the Comfaboy Instrumental and Vocal Music Competition, in 2016, 2017, 2018, whose final is held in Tunja. He also won second prize at the National Tiple Competition of Charalá, Santander, in 2017, first prize at the Andean Music Competition in Cajicá, Cundinamarca 2018, and the Mono Núñez Instrumental Grand Prix 2021.The price of the concert tickets is 40,000 pesos.Mono Núñez is the most important Andean music festival in the country and since its foundation in 1975 the celebration has been held in Geneva, in Valle del Cauca, for several days the participants demonstrate their talent by competing for the Mono Núñez Grand Prix, in the vocal and instrumental categories.In 2022, the Monkey Núñez will be held from 23 to 26 June in Geneva. KEEP READING:Oversight Network asks that John Milton Rodríguez be excluded from the electoral cardVideo: Manuela Gómez continues to reveal details of why their relationship ended, “something told me it was not right”
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The Mono Núñez Festival takes over the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo in April
