news Uruguay Artist Presents the Candombe; Montevideo Uruguay Living Blog Top Searches: • living artists from uruguay • uruguay dance culture • names of uruguay artist the painting they made • afro uruguayan art • music of uruguay • uruguay typical music candombe • music in uruguay • uruguayan art • pictures of uruguayan candombe carnival • afro uruguayans pictures • montevideo candombe • candombe blog • llamdas carnival parade • painting candombe • paintings uruguay candombe • candombe montevideo •
Candombe is the name for a drum based music of Uruguay. The Afro-Uruguayan population of Montevideo originated the Candombe. Its culture origins are from the Bantu African drumming. Some tango and European influence were mixed in.
Shown here is a painting by Uruguayan Artist Sisto Pascale. You can aslo enjoy the Candombe live during Carnival in Montevideo.
There is a competition of Candombe groups in the Teatro de Verano during the Carnival and 80 or more groups perform in Las Llamdas a massive parade.
Thinking about making a comment on this blog post? Great! But please remember that this space is for just that, comments about this blog post. It is not a place to post random thoughts about other stuff. We found that most of the "comments" posted here are not comments at all and should have really been posted in our forum. So:
