From Carayaca joyful voices visit the CAF

With a repertoire of Venezuela’s most authentic musical expressions, this Thursday the musical group Voces Risueñas de Carayaca will perform in the Antonio José de Sucre Auditorium at the CAF, in one of the activities that this multilateral financial institution promotes through its Cultural and Community Development Office in favor of the transmission of authentic Latin American cultural values.

Voces Risueñas de Carayaca goes back to 1950, when a group of local people in Carayaca, a town 45 kilometers southwest of Caracas, decided to unite their voices and songs to brighten up the popular Christmas masses.

In 1953, the group took on a more formal character and adopted the name that is today part of the Venezuelan musical scene, with the very specific objective of promoting and disseminating popular and folkloric expressions that range from simple milking chants to mystic-religious celebrations in a syncretism that mixes indigenous, Spanish and African roots.

Three generations are represented in the group, all experts and performers of musical and dance genres, which has enabled them to design a program brimming with authenticity and warmth deeply rooted in tradition. Their performances have enjoyed great acceptance on the international scene, including the Cosquín festival in Cordoba, Argentina; the Aruba Music School; the islands of St Lucia and Dominica; Heredia University in Costa Rica, as well as presentations in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.