"Barranquilla" (pasillo) | Valentina Gomez Sanabria

This piece composed by Emilio Murillo is named "Barranquilla" after the city on Colombia''s Caribbean coast. Valentina Gomez performs the track here at the Cotiple National Tiple Festival in Envigado, Medellín, with Mateo Moreno Vargas & Diego Otero. Valentina is just 16-years old and appears to have already become an important figure within the rich Colombian music tradition of the Andes. She studied at the Folkloric School of Jose Segundo Castellanos and then under Héctor Raúl Ariza. She now treads her own path performing with Camilo Cifuentes, Carlos Vásquez and Diego Otero, She has won many awards and accolades including: The National Requinto Competition (Child Category), Vélez, Santander | 2011, 2012 The National Tiple Competition (Child Category), Vélez, Santander | 2013 The National Andean Music Competition, Duitama, Boyacá | 2011, 2012