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Rock al Parque: Pre-festival comments
By José Gandour @gandour Photo by Oscar Perfer As our followers already know, Rock al Parque is the event we're most excited to cover at Zonagirante.com. We're thrilled that its 22nd edition is just around the corner, and we know that the locals...
Compadres Recerdos, Reggaeton gore at Rock al Parque
By José Gandour @gandour Photo: Miguel Mejía For some time now, they've been the most provocative act on the Bogotá music scene. They mock (to put it mildly) everything that happens in front of them. They go by the name of Compadres Recerdos, and their job is...
Rock al Parque: Chucky García, the programmer, speaks.
By José Gandour @gandour Photo by Oscar Perfer. Just days before the 22nd edition of Rock al Parque, we had the opportunity to interview Chucky García, a prominent music journalist and cultural promoter, who, since 2014, has been...
Photography at Rock al Parque: Karin Richter
Text and photos by Karin Richter @KarinRichter I remember taking my camera and letting myself be carried away by the sound, the lights, the atmosphere. The world could fall apart and nothing mattered more than being there: recording, capturing, immortalizing that chord, that fragment...
What if this were the last Rock al Parque?
By Santiago Rivas @rivas_santiago Photo: Rodrigo Morales @megapulse Rock al Parque isn't what it used to be. Not only because everything changes (from Heraclitus to Mercedes Sosa, and so on), but because it no longer represents the same thing for Bogotá as when it was created. The...
Long live Pura Vida
By Juan Ignacio Pilegi @igelipnauj Photo by Euge Nuñez The Argentinian city of La Plata, located 50 km from Buenos Aires, has the highest density of musicians per square meter in the country and, I dare say, in the world. More than 1,600 musical projects have been born there...
The IMAS: The best of what's new in Mexico.
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante On Tuesday, July 7th, the 2016 Indie-O Music Awards ceremony (better known as Los Imas) took place, honoring the best of Mexican independent music. These awards are presented in various...
Rock al Parque 2016: Last guests, the cherry on top
By Zonagirante team @zonagirante Photo: Oscar Perfer And the day has arrived when the twenty-second edition of the Rock al Parque festival was able to announce the final local and international guests, who will participate in the event on July 2nd, 3rd and 4th at the...
Rock al Parque: The jury's decisions.
By José Gandour @gandour Photo by Oscar Perfer The work of the judging panel for a competition as complex as the Rock al Parque festival is crucial. Their job is to choose, from the call for entries issued by the Mayor's Office of Bogotá, from among all the artists interested in...
Rock al Parque: The District Selected
By Zonagirante.com Team @zonagirante Photo by Oscar Perfer These are the 19 bands that, after the district call for Rock al Parque 2016, have been selected to participate in the twenty-second edition of the festival. Among the chosen groups...
What's happening with the image of Rock al Parque?
By José Gandour @gandour Photo Oscar Perfer We're heading into the 22nd edition of Rock al Parque, a show that draws between 250,000 and 400,000 people over 3 days, and during these more than two decades of the festival, I dare say I haven't seen a single poster...
Rock al Parque 2016: New batch of guest artists
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Photo: Óscar Perfer @PerferOscar Between July 2nd and 4th, a new edition of Latin America's largest free festival, Rock al Parque, will take place in Bogotá's Simón Bolívar Metropolitan Park. After...
Bogotá Sounds: A new festival amidst hostile barricades
By José Gandour @gandour Photo Oscar Perfer My friends from Bogotá, my friends who love good music in Latin America: I propose a game. For a moment, detach yourselves from your current political preferences, from your loves and hates for those in power...
