LA GUABINA

GUABINA

The guabina is a vocal song with music composition, dance and whirl Colombian musical genre, present in the departments of Antioquia, Santander, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Tolima and Huila in which they practice and are representative samples of rhythm. 

Singing at chest guabina tasty dejativa and rue, rue which the mountains of Antioquia, where its empire was its cradle song 

Historical references mention the guabina since the late eighteenth century and is very popular with potters and stonecutters santafereños during the time of Christmas bonuses, and dances in the game. It was a pace very rejected by the church to have a style of dancing couples. From the second half of the nineteenth century, romanticism is an essential part in the compositions of the guabinas. So, they began to be created guabinas romantic and loving, as the work of Alberto Urdaneta, Guabina chiquinquireña. 

Several composers boyacenses also been used as rhythm guabina sing to their land: the case of Octavio Quinones with My guabinita, Juan C. Goyeneche with boyacense Sogamoseñita and Landscape, and Juan Francisco Aguilera, with my people Lagunita . It is important to refer to the illustrious composer Lelio  Olarte master musician, born in Puente Nacional, who composed the Guabina Santandereana , this being the second most popular, as it has been part of the repertoire of music albums and performed by Colombia the Symphony Orchestra, and some bands that have been winning the contest bands Paipa, Boyacá.

TORBELLINO

EL TORBELLINO 

It is one of the most representative folk dances of Boyacá, Cundinamarca and Santander; melody accompanies Boyacenses pilgrimages, dances in marriages at parties and festive atmospheres of other cities and towns of cundiboyacense altiplano. It is melodíacon which farmers express the simplicity of their reactions with love, deception, religious sentiment and the varied landscape and cundiboyacense cold altiplano. The melody whose "mesmito" expressions "sumercé" "Queré" "Truje" "vide" "gancia" "anxiety" "package" are more typical sentence of these old colonial ancestry Castilian Spanish airs.

FOLK CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS

TYPICAL DANCES BOYACA

LA CARRANGA

The carranga, Carranguera music or peasant music is a gender of folclorica music that emerged in the Colombian Andean region, more precisely in the department of Boyacá in the 70's, the hand veterinarian Jorge Velosa and Carrangueros Ráquira. Its origin is attributed to the junction between the peasant Meringue santandereano cundiboyacence highlands and the rumba criolla, vallenato walk and other genres like bambuco and torbellino.