Detonating talk: «Peace and the exaltation of regional music in a pandemic»

Jaime Monsalve (Colombia)

For RTVC-Public Media System and Radio Nacional de Colombia, the arrival of covid-19 coincided with the need to open new stations in territories ravaged by war. How to exalt the cultural values of these regions when you are confined by a pandemic? The solution was found in the creation of a music festival that remotely gave account of the development of the regional and peasant sounds of each of these places. Thanks to this endeavor, a handful of emerging artists began to take an important leap towards other scenarios, perhaps unimaginable for them at some point.