Here is a preview of Chirimía la Contundencia, a music ensemble that plays chirimía, a traditional genre of Colombia’s northern Pacific region.
Video produced by Brandon Callahan, Carolina Restrepo, Charles Weber, and Cristina Diaz-Carrera
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