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GUAFA TRIO

Instrumental Contemporary Colombian Music

GUAFA TRIO is a very unique acoustic formation with a contemporary and own sound. They perform traditional Colombian music from classic composers as well as their own compositions.

GUAFA TRIO is the first Colombian trio that put together contrabass, cuatro*, and flute to perform pasillos, bambucos, joropos and other genres from the Colombian inland that traditionally are played by string trio’s.

The project of GUAFA TRIO started life at the beginning of 1998 with Musica Llanera (traditional music from the Venezuelan and Colombian areas better known as Llanos Orientales) performing at 1st Festival of Llanera Music in Bogota where they showed their own musical and interpretative approach to the Llanera music. The audience expressed a big emotion and interest when listened to it, because it was presented under a complete different perspective.

* Typical four-string guitar unique to Colombia and Venezuela and played by the cowboys known as llaneros.
Later on, GUAFA TRIO, enlarged their repertoire including compositions of Latin American and Colombian Andean Music. They always have given a big importance to perform with a high instrumental level as well as to improve their interpretation’s quality. In a short time, they have captured the Colombian audience’s interest.

In 1999, GUAFA TRIO won the Colombian award Mono Núñez, which is the most prestigious Colombian prize of traditional music. In 2000, they took the first place in the competition for traditional music at the XIV Festival Hato Viejo-Cotrafa (Colombia). The Colombian Foundation BAT in 2005 honored its flute player, Ignacio Ramos, with the prize as best interpreter. The trio won the prize as third best original composition with the theme “entreverao”.

Live performances
GUAFA TRIO has crossed the whole country performing more than 800 concerts in festivals, theaters and events as for instance Trio’s National Festival (Popayan), Auditorium Luis A. Calvo (Bucaramanga), Camarín del Carmen Theater (Bogota), León De Greiff Auditorium (Bogota), Luis Angel Arango Hall (Bogotà), British Petroleum Company tour (Casanare), series of concerts during the Presidential Summit (Cartagena), Metropolitano Theather (Medellin), Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater (Bogotà).

Some of the concerts they have performed abroad are:

• 2001 – VI Latin American Arts Assembly of Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington (USA)
• 2002 – International Festival of Music “South by Southwest” in Austin, Texas (USA).
• 2003 – Auditorium Liceu di Barcellona (Spain); Antiquaire André Macé of Paris during the inauguration of the Cultural and Scientific “Bijoux de l’air” (Francia).
• 2004 – Serires of concerts in United States: Kansas State University at Mc Kain Auditorium; St. Eduardo University (Kansas); Latin American Festival of Arts organized by Texas Christian University.
• 2005 – Festival of Fine Arts at San Juan (Puerto Rico), VI Mercado Cultural at Salvador (Brazil)
• 2006 – American tour from 5 April till 6 May.

Discography
• 2000 – Musica Tradicional Colombiana (CD)
• 2000 - Homenaje a nuestros compositores “Mono Núñez” (Compilation)
• 2001 – XXV Festival de Música Colombiana “Mono Núñez”; Festival Hatoviejo Cotrafa (Compilation)
• 2001 – Entreverao (CD)
• 2002 – XI Festivalito Ruitoqueño de Música Colombiana (Compilation)
• 2004 – Entre Sabana y Montaña (CD) – This album very soon will be release under French label, DAQUI, which is distributed by Harmonia Mundi.

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