POPULAR MUSIC

Heavily influenced by the music of Africa, currulao is played with folk instruments such as the marimba de chonta, the guasá (a hollow cylinder filled with light seeds) and the cununo drum. A lead singer voices the main melody and an answering choir responds [source: Jaramillo]. As with bambuco and cumbia, currulao is a style of dance, as well as a style of music.

Musical Rhythms of the Pacific Coast Region of Colombia

AGUABAJO:  Traditional songs of Choco department, sung by its inhabitants when they navigate the rivers of the Baudó region. It consists of a kind of intertwined play between women and men. 

BUNDE:  Musical tune from the Pacific seaboard.  It is of African origin and its name comes from the word “wunde” from Sierra Leone.  It also exists in Andean folklore with a mixture of rhythms such as structured guabina, torbellino and bambuco. The best known is the bunde tolimense composed by A. Castilla. 

CONTRADANZA:  It is a popular dance of the south region of the Pacific coast.  It is used in dance shows to illustrate a typical national dance, as a result of the striking colours of the costumes, its elegance and the mobility of the dancers

CURRULAO:  It is the best-known rhythm from the folklore of the Pacific region.   It consists of dancing and singing, accompanied by music played typically with instruments such as the native marimba, the conunos, the bass drum, the side drum and the cuatro guasas or tubular rattle.  It has two varieties: thejuga and the bereju. 

MAKERULE:  Music of Choco folklore.  It resembles an Andean dance.  The slowness of the dance shows its noble ancestry.  Some people from the region say that its name came from the surname, "Mac Duller ", a man who had a bakery in the town of Andagoya, department of Choco.

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