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Colombia Dispatch Video: Turco Gil’s Accordion Academy
In Valledupar, Colombia, Turco Gil operates a school to teach local children how to play vallenato music. Listen to Juan David Atencia, a blind 9-year-old prodigy play the accordion. (05:42)
Video: Kenneth Fletcher/SmithsonianMag.com
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Comments (2)
Thank you for this report about my beautiful people from Colombia. It brings tears to my eyes. In Colombia this music is enjoyed even by rich upper class people at parties and festivals. As a child I would enjoy this music when my parents took us in vacations from Bogota to northern regions like Santander and the caribbean coast.
Posted by Alexander Rueda Garcia on April 29,2012 | 02:45 PM
This was inspiring in so many ways. Thank you.
Posted by Glenn White on October 3,2010 | 01:26 PM