Colombia's Big Summer Music Festival Is All About Blackness
In Colombia, the Petronio Alvarez festival is the big event of the summer — five days of music and food and fashion. More than a hundred thousand people travel to celebrate Afro-Colombian culture.
In western Colombia, the Petronio Alvarez festival is the big event of the summer — five days of music and food and fashion. More than a hundred thousand people travel from all over the world to the city of Cali, where they celebrate the culture of the country's Afro-Colombian Pacific region. It's a huge party.
Over the past 23 years, the festival has become one of Colombia's largest cultural events.
