La Perla, an all women’s group of percussionists are coming all the way from Columbia to Kansas to give an interactive, high energy, exciting performance of a lifetime. They specialize in the music of ‘cumbia’ and they have adapted that to both traditional and modern styles of music.
La Perla is a Bogota musical project that was born in 2014 and is made up of
Karen Forero, Giovanna Mogollón and Diana Sanmiguel, musicians who research
the musical tradition of the Colombian Caribbean with more than 15 years of
experience in the interpretation of the format of gaitas and drums and bailes
cantados.
They have circulated through concert halls, bars, cultural centers and festivals
where they have played both traditional music and their own repertoire, in countries
such as Mexico, Chile, Spain, France, England, Germany,
Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Hungary. In 2021 they participated in WOMEX, a
highly recognized music fair worldwide, with a showcase at the Oporto Coliseum,
Portugal.