Thursday, October 18, 2012, 8:00 pm, $6-$10
Hosted by Amina Bayou of The Front Corner and Federico Ardila. Federico Ardila is a native of Colombia who has been collecting music for as long as he can remember. He is particularly fascinated by Colombia’s amazingly deep and diverse musical landscape, and how eloquently it tells the stories of his country and his people. Federico (aka DJ Papicultor) is a co-founder of La Pelanga (www.lapelanga.com), an Oakland-based DJ collective and a music blog that features the old and the new, the city and the village, bombardinos and autotune: cumbia, dancehall, afrobeat, salsa dura, soukous, champeta, kompa, hip hop, coupé decalé, currulao, and much more. La Pelanga was actually born during a 2008 musical trip to Cali, Colombia with Lulacruza. Federico will share stories from behind the music and the musicians featured in Esperando el Tsunami.
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