Parranda Venezuelan Carnival Music

Venezuela's Caribbean coastal town of Naiguatá is home to 1 of the country's most celebrated Carnival musical traditions. In the 70's, trumpeter Ricardo Díaz augmented the local legacy of Afro-Caribbean drumming traditions with brass, electric bass, keyboard & women's chorus to create La Sardina de Naiguatá, the musical group that drives the town's annual cycle of public celebrations, including Carnival, Corpus Christi & St. John the Baptist. ¡Parranda! brings us the contemporary, joyous sounds of the pre-Christian rite of "burying the sardine" to promote an abundant harvest of fish & crops.