Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Fruko & Carmelo Torres

Name: Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Fruko & Carmelo Torres
Start: 2026-11-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: De la Luz Soundstage — Soundstage

Date: Friday, November 13
Music: 7:00 PM
Where: De la Luz Soundstage, Holyoke, MA

The evening

Music 7 PM
Soundstage
Presented with Secret Planet

Three Colombian legends on one stage.

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Fruko and Carmelo Torres: the living roots of cumbia and the artists who carried, transformed and preserved it.

“The authentic masters of traditional Colombian music.”
— The New Yorker · as quoted on Secret Planet's listing; the source should be linked before this ships

The story

More than an album, Madre Cumbia brings together the living roots of Colombian cumbia with the artists who have carried, transformed and preserved its legacy across generations. From the ancestral sounds of the gaitas and drums to the accordion of the sabanas and the electric bass that helped redefine tropical music, it celebrates the full arc of cumbia's evolution.

proposed: Secret Planet's listing runs in English and Spanish. This one should too.

Madre Cumbia musicians — Supplied with the listing

Sources · for review

The hook is Secret Planet's headline, credited. Story from the delaluz.org listing. Film by LightHouse Holyoke as embedded on delaluz.org. New Yorker line as quoted by Secret Planet.