Award-winning Puerto Rican jazz and salsa musician Eddie Palmieri will star in the annual Salsa in the Park event in Colombia’s capital Bogota this Friday.
For the 15th year in a row, Bogota will celebrate the sounds and moves of salsa in a three-day long event with internationally and nationally renowned salsa bands.
The festival kicks off this Friday afternoon with local salsa orchestras and dance shows. Eddie Palmieri, famous for combining jazz tunes with salsa rhythms, and Puerto Rico’s most successful salsa band El Cran Combo will heat up the atmosphere from there starting at 7PM in Bogota’s Plaza de Bolivar.
On Saturday, the event pays tribute to the salsa singer Miguel Granados Arjona, alias “El Viejo Mike,” at the open-air theater Media Torta at 2:20PM.
Colombian salsa bands such as Real Charanga and La Misma Gente will perform Sunday all day from 12PM on at the same venue, Media Torta.
Salsa in the Park is organized by the Ministry of Culture, Recreation and Sport, and is free of charge.
