Folclore

We have been fortunate enough in the last week of our stay here to catch a a very well run folk festivalwhich has been set up by the government Buenos Aires and has featured some very prominant artist for free. It´s been set up really beautifully with an outdoor stage next to an old stable where there are instrument and music stalls along side an increadible barbique. The atmosphere is really fantastic everyone sitting outside in the warmth of the evening listening to music and drinking mate but no alcohol. I am being captivated by a whole new world of folkloric music that has very different sounds and rhythms from what I am used to as a European urbanite with an American influence that is easily taken for granted. Very different even from tango which is ultimately a very urban music and has a little more affinity with European sensibilities. The guys in the pictures are the Luis Carnota Trio. Carnota is reveared as one of the greatest modernisers or reinterpreters of folkloric music forms. He was very good. I look forward to absorbing a lot more of the sounds of the country as we travel inwards to the deserts and mountains that gave birth to these songs.