page_title: Barranquilla's Carnival
section_title: Monday Of Carnival
hierarchical_section_title: Barranquilla's Carnival / Events / Monday Of Carnival
caption_attribution_description: English: Festival de Orquestas 2007 Barranquilla Español: Festival de Orquestas 2007 Barranquilla
context_page_description: The Carnival of Barranquilla is one of Colombia's most important folkloric celebrations, and one of the biggest carnival in the world. The carnival has traditions that date back to the 19th century. Four days before Holy Week, Barranquilla decks itself out to receive national and foreign tourists and joins together with the city's inhabitants to enjoy four days of intense festivities. During the carnival, Barranquilla's normal activities are paralyzed because the city gets busy with street dances, musical and masquerade parades. Barranquilla's Carnival includes dances such as the Spanish paloteo, African Congo, and indigenous mico y micas. Many styles of Colombian music are also performed, most prominently cumbia, and instruments include drums and wind ensembles.
  The Carnival of Barranquilla was proclaimed a Cultural Masterpiece of the Nation by Colombia's National Congress in 2002.
  Also the UNESCO, in Paris on November 7, 2003, declared it one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, and it was during Olga Lucia Rodriquez Carnival Queen year.
context_section_description: It is the third day of Carnival. The two most important events carried out on this day are: The Great Fantasy Parade and the Orchestras Festival.
  The Great Fantasy Parade
  It therefore shows innovating choreographic mixtures fluctuating from the most traditional, through the local, to the international by blending international rhythms, such as samba, salsa, reggaeton, champeta and electronic music with other local ones such as cumbia, porro, mapalé and merecumbé. This event attracts renewing proposals searching for an space in the carnival. The success of a fantasy dancing group could have a renewing meaning to the carnival itself, enriching it and helping in its development. Over time, this parade has become one of the most attended events of the carnival.
  Orchestras Festival
  It is a concert featuring many national and international musical ensembles, and was created in 1969. It normally starts at the early Monday afternoon lasting until the early Tuesday morning. In this festival, the participating musical ensembles compete for the coveted award called Congo De Oro in different categories. As a rule, each musical ensembles should perform three songs and at least one of them should be dedicated, in their content, to the city of Barranquilla. This event currently takes place at the Romelio Martínez Stadium.
  The following are the categories in which the musical ensembles vie for obtaining the Congo de Oro prize:
  Tropical. Generic term referring to musical ensembles with both a popular orchestra format and a folkloric format that perform typical musical genres from the Caribbean region and the Barranquilla's Carnival such as cumbia, porro, fandango, chalupa, mapalé and others.
  Vallenato.  Term referring to musical ensembles performing Vallenato and its many variations (Paseo, Son, Merengue, Puya, new trending ones), played with accordion, caja and guacharaca as main instruments.
  Salsa. Term referring to musical ensembles performing the diverse West Indian musical genres such son cubano, son montuno, pachanga, guaguancó, boogaloo, bomba, plena, mambo, cha-cha-chá, latin jazz and others.
  Merengue. Term referring to musical ensembles performing musical genres coming out of Dominican Republic and the Caribbean such as merengue, house, ragga, and others.
  Urban music. Term referring to musical ensembles performing "new styles" of urban music, such as champeta,  reggaetón, hip hop, rap, dancehall and others.
  Rescuing the ours. Generic term referring to musical ensembles performing typical folkloric music such as cumbia, porro, fandango, chalupa, mapalé and others.
  Likewise,  special prizes are given to the best instrumentalists and the best singers of the contest.
caption: Orchestras Festival 2007. Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz Presentation.
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