{"id":157,"date":"2011-03-28T14:58:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2016-05-17T14:27:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T19:27:56","slug":"an-introduction-to-vallenato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2011\/03\/an-introduction-to-vallenato\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to Vallenato, Colombian Folk Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visiting almost anywhere in Colombia<\/a>, whether you seek it out in a bar to dance to or hear it blasting from shop fronts into the streets, you won’t escape the traditional folk music of Vallenato. Locals love it almost as much as salsa and although to the foreign ear it may not sound like the easiest of styles to get into, once you’ve sunk a few aguardientes with a Colombian it’s almost guaranteed you’ll be hugging and slurring the words to a vallenato song before long.<\/p>\n