Colombia and Mexico are two nations with deep cultural ties. Cumbia settled in Mexico until it became Mexican. Rancheras are part of the sentimental and sensorial education of Colombians. The more we approach the immense diversity of musical genres in the two countries the more similarities and ties we find. Using as starting point a creation-research lab and a dialogical aesthetic between tradition and contemporaneity, this proposal will unveil the common roots and spiritual fraternity between Colombia and Mexico through their music.

Lucía Pulido’s ensemble and its project Colombia and Mexico, Two Peoples One Root, is a work that makes visible the musical and cultural wealth of both nations, where diverse histories and sounds are intertwined by musicians from different trends, combining a great variety of popular rhythms of both countries, such as cumbia, trova yucateca, petenera, bambuco, pirekuas and guabinas, among others. It is a musical proposal bordering the Mexican and the Colombian, addressing traditional and experimental musical sounds, and including original compositions.