Medellin: Music, Waterfalls and Mangos
The final part of our time in Medellin started with a show put on as part of the city’s Feria de la Flores. It was a Fruko tribute to Joe Arroyo followed by a Golpe Golpe show. Hadn’t heard of Golpe Golpe but they’re a big reggae group form Puertro Rico. The show was free, way up a hill in a barrio called La Milagrosa. We pulled up on Robin’s motorcycle to probably a thousand people waiting on the street – the show was full and nobody could get in. We decided the best thing to do was play the Gringo card, and after pushing our way to the front of the line, Robin...
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Got to Medellin Wednesday night late, arrived at Robin’s (from Jack Magazine) apartment. It’s in a ”bohemian” barrio called Carlos A. Restrepo…4 story brick buildings surrounded by trees in a relatively tranquil part of this city of 2.5 million, 5 minutes from El Centro. Had maracuya juice and a stir fry made by my gracious host. All around are the dramatic mountains that surround the city, covered in a mixture of trees and barrio. This is a really comfortable place to spend my first few days in Colombia, but due to the mellowness of where I am...
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I’m sitting at the bogota beer company with a Candelaria clasica. From LAX to San Salvador to Bogota. Now this connection to Medellin. I’m seeing the names of mp3 downloads and years of trolling blogs for Cumbias and its ephemera screens around me. Barranquilla is in the ads. Bucaramanga in the screen to my left. Cali, Tierra de lindas hermosas mujeres , departs in front of me. Its funny how we can absorb cultural references as just another word to learn, a song title, where somebody Is from …another disconnected piece of this global cultural puzzle we call the internet,...
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