Casa Quiebra-Canto, in the salsa since 1979, Bogotá, Colombia [4k]

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"QUIEBRACANTO, THE LEGENDARY
It began in 1979 in a small street next to the Universidad de los Andes, with four tables: two for students from the U. Nacional, one for those from Los Andes and the fourth for the cacos. Its creator and manager, Alvaro Manosalva from Boyacá, was an architecture student at Nacho.
By: EL TIEMPO EDITORIAL July 19, 2003, 12:00 a. m.
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It began in 1979 in a small street next to the Universidad de los Andes, with four tables: two for students from the U. Nacional, one for those from Los Andes and the fourth for the cacos. Its creator and manager, Alvaro Manosalva from Boyacá, was an architecture student at Nacho.
Now, the legendary Quiebracanto is getting ready to celebrate its first quarter of a century, for which the next months of August and September will be dedicated to culture. There will be presentations on word management, music, poetry and theater, in an event coordinated by playwright and director Misael Torres.
Although every day presents innovations, this original Quiebracanto maintains the philosophy and initial objectives of Manosalva, that is, to break the musical customs that existed at that time. For that, he brought classic salsa, which came mostly from the Valley, and the new Cuban trova, which is why the site is considered the pioneer and leader of this music in the country.
There, new creators are encouraged, given space, presentations, posters and facilities to rehearse. The close and permanent contact with the musicians achieved a presentation as important as that of Petrona Martínez, the only one she has performed in a bar.
The offer to accompany the music is coffee and liquor in general. Tuesdays have art-cinema programming and Blue Night Wednesdays are unmissable for the quality of the disc jockeys and the selection of music. On Thursdays, on Black Night, there are Brazilian, African and Colombian coastal rhythms, mixed with reggae.
On Fridays and Saturdays they continue with their line of classic salsa, now run by musicologist and collector Rubén Toledo. They have contact with new trends and folk fusions, which is the new musical vein.
Ismael Matallana, one of the site's most loyal customers, is today its administrator in Bogotá.
Quiebracanto Bogotá. Carrera 5 No. 17 76. Telephones 2431630 / 3412319. Open Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. On Mondays only until 8 or 9 p.m.
Cartagena Headquarters. Camellón de Los Mártires, La Puerta del Sol building, second floor. Gethsemane neighborhood. Telephone 095 / 6641372.
www.quiebracanto.com" - www.eltiempo.com/archivo/docu...
"Quiebra-Canto, a symbol of the night and the salsa rumba
After months of dirty looks, insults and feigned fights, Negro and Chano became friends.
Along the way, other friends gradually joined, until they formed what Leo Cruz liked to call “the boys”, Memo Franco, Leo Cruz, Negro Gil, Chano Monroy, Joseto Arias and Humberto Loboguerrero. Nico de Greiff, a neighbor, called them 'The Soledad cartel', since they all lived in that neighborhood of Bogotá. Three things united them: a sense of humor, music and rumba. That passion for sounds, notes, rhythms, bustle, disorder, excess and desire led them to be an important part of the rumba in Bogotá.
They started with heavy metal and hard rock. Almost everyone had a collection of records from bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Kiss, etc. As the years went by, they became familiar with the sounds of psychedelic rock of Pink Floyd, The Doors and the Rolling Stones. The black man and Chano remembered the day they went to the Palermo Theater to see the movie Gimme Shelter, a concert from 1969 with the Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival, in Altamont, northern California.
“When they turned off the lights, you began to see the red dots of the lit cigarette and to smell the peculiar smell of cannabis. I don't know how the police thought of putting ten dogs in the theater, and five minutes later neither the dogs nor we knew where we were. The poor German shepherds were left lying on the ground with their tongues out trying to avoid the smoke that did not even allow them to see the screen. The movie ended in a fight with the police,” the black man recalled, laughing. " - www.eltiempo.com/cultura/rest...